Murray in mint condition in Madrid

Andy Murray cruised into the quarter-finals of the Madrid Open on Thursday with a one-sided victory over Romanian Victor Hanescu.

Murray started his tournament with a convincing second-round win over Juan Ignacio Chela and the world number four was even more impressive as he downed his giant opponent 6-2 6-1 in one hour and nine minutes.

Murray will now meet the winner of the match between eighth seed Marin Cilic and ninth seed David Ferrer.

The 22-year-old enjoyed a flying start to Wednesday's match against Chela as he dropped just one point in his first three games to take a 3-0 lead with two breaks, and he was off the mark quickly again.

Having held his opening game, Murray established a 0-30 lead on Hanescu's serve. However, the 6ft 6in Romanian hit back to win that game and then fashioned two break points on the next Murray serve to hint at a potentially tough evening for the third seed.

Murray, though, managed to save both of those though before establishing a 2-1 lead.

After that it was virtually all one-way traffic with Murray winning four of the next five games to take the first set.

Murray's dominance continued through into the second set as he held serve and then immediately broke his struggling opponent to go 2-0 up.

The next three games went with serve to leave Murray 4-1 ahead, and he ensured there would be no way back for Hanescu as he broke the 28-year-old in the sixth game after creating three break points.

Murray then held his serve to complete the win, Hanescu ending the match with yet another unforced error - his 31st of the match, which was 23 more than the British number one made.