Andy Murray fired up to finish off Mardy Fish

Andy Murray will resume his Aegon Championships third-round clash with Mardy Fish today with a critical volley still ringing in the ears of officials who decided to halt the match last night.

Bad light prompted supervisor Tom Barnes to call for the covers moments after Fish had surrendered a 3-0 lead in the decisive set to leave play locked at 4-6 6-1 3-3.

Fish approached umpire Cedric Mourier requesting the postponement and once it had been agreed, he walked off to leave an irate Murray railing against the decision.

"Marty says he doesn't want to play so we stop playing. The umpire didn't consult anyone," Murray said on centre court.

"That came out of nowhere. The weather was absolutely fine. It's ridiculous.

"The only reason he wanted to stop was because it was 3-3."

A roller coaster match finished with Murray clawing back the ascendancy and the showdown for a place in the last eight will resume at 1230.

Should he prevail against the American, who is ranked 90 in the world, he will face Michael Llodra later this afternoon.

The British number one will be hoping to avoid joining the big-name casualties that exited Queen's yesterday.

Murray and injury-troubled Rafael Nadal precariously negotiated uncomfortable matches, but Novak Djokovic, Andy Roddick and Marin Cilic were all dumped out.

Nadal endured a challenging afternoon before emerging an unconvincing 6-6 (7-4) 4-6 6-4 winner against Denis Istomin of Uzbekistan.

The world number one and 2008 Queen's champion was troubled by a glute/hamstring injury after the second set and had the top of his right leg massaged, delaying play for several minutes.

Despite the injury, he is confident he will be able to face countryman Feliciano Lopez on centre court once Murray's match has finished.

"I'm going to have the leg the tested. The pain started slowly and then I felt it more," said Nadal.

"At the moment I'm not thinking about pulling out of the tournament. I'm sure I'll play tomorrow. I'll be very careful but should be OK."

Andy Roddick became the first big-name casualty of this year's tournament when he slumped to 6-4 7-6 (10-8) defeat by Dudi Sela of Israel.

Roddick's exit was later trumped by the exit of second seed Djokovic, who was beaten 3-6 6-4 2-6 by France's Xavier Malisse.