Serena Williams and Andy Murray suffer exits in Miami Open

&Tab;&Tab;<div class&equals;"wpcnt">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<div class&equals;"wpa">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<span class&equals;"wpa-about">Advertisements<&sol;span>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<div class&equals;"u top&lowbar;amp">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<amp-ad width&equals;"300" height&equals;"265"&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab; type&equals;"pubmine"&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab; data-siteid&equals;"111265417"&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab; data-section&equals;"2">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;amp-ad>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;div>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;div>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;div><p>Serena Williams and Andy Murray were the big losers in the Miami Open as they were dumped out in the third and fourth round respectively on a day of upsets in Florida&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>World number two Murray cut a disconsolate figure as he was beaten 6-7 &lpar;7&sol;1&rpar; 6-4 6-3 by the impressive Grigor Dimitrov&comma; who enjoyed a first win against a top-10 opponent in 13 matches&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Dimitrov dominated from the baseline against Murray&comma; who contributed to his downfall with more than 50 unforced errors&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>In the women&&num;8217&semi;s event&comma; world number one Williams sees her wait for a first title of the season go on as she surprisingly lost in three sets to 15th-seed Svetlana Kuznetsova&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Williams won the first set on a tie-break before going on to capitulate as the Russian stormed back to take the final two sets 6-1 6-3&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&&num;8220&semi;It&&num;8217&semi;s obviously disappointing&comma; but I&&num;8217&semi;ve won here a lot&comma; so it&&num;8217&semi;s okay&comma;&&num;8221&semi; Williams said in her post-match press conference&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&&num;8220&semi;I did the best that I could&comma; so to the fans&comma; I did the best that I could today&comma; and I can&&num;8217&semi;t win every match&period; These players come out&comma; and they play me like they&&num;8217&semi;ve never played before in their lives&period; So&comma; you know&comma; it&&num;8217&semi;s the best that I could do today&period;&&num;8221&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>In the men&&num;8217&semi;s event Jo-Wilfried Tsonga was another victim of an upset as the ninth-seed was downed 2-6 6-3 7-6 &lpar;7&sol;3&rpar; by Spaniard Roberto Bautista Agut&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>There were no such problems for sixth seed Kei Nishikori&comma; who is now the second highest seed left in the competition&comma; after he easily disposed of Alexandr Dolgopolov 6-2 6-2&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Milos Raonic had to battle hard to get past American Jack Sock&comma; winning 7-6 &lpar;7&sol;3&rpar; 6-4&comma; while Gael Monfils set up a fourth-round meeting with Dimitrov after easing past Pablo Cuevas 6-3 6-4&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Nick Kyrgios made safe passage to the next round with a 6-4 6-4 win over Tim Smyczek&comma; Andrey Kuznetsov came from behind to beat Adrian Mannarino 2-6 7-5 6-0 while Damir Dzumhur edged his clash with Mikhail Kukushkin 4-6 6-1 6-2&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Victoria Azarenka is on course for back-to-back WTA titles as the Indian Wells champion needed two tie-breaks to beat fourth-seed Garbine Muguruza 7-6 &lpar;8&sol;6&rpar; 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