Andy Murray vs Matteo Berrettini LIVE: US Open tennis score and updates today

Berrettini produces a brilliant backhand pass that Murray can’t quite fetch and that’s 15-30. Murray gets into the next rally but is always on the back foot and eventually scoops a lob long to offer up two more break points. A big serve down the T saves the first, and then a huge stroke of fortune – the ball is flying wide but clips the tape and jumps back in court, and Berrettini misses a simple forehand long. He can’t believe it. That’s deuce, but Murray throws in another double fault to give Berrettini another break point. Murray pulls his opponent all over the court and eventually provokes a backhand into the net to save it, and the Scot roars. Deuce, and Murray puts together back-to-back points to clinch another epic hold.

Berrettini is serving so, so well with over 80 per cent of first serves in in this third set. Murray has no reply and the Italian holds to love, seeing it out with yet another ace.

Murray berates himself after hitting the net, shouting “it doesn’t have to be that good!”, as Berrettini leads 15-30. He then fires an ace and an inch-perfect forehand winner to lead 40-30, and an unreturnable serve clinches the hold. If Murray can somehow break now, he will clinch the third set and be right back in this third-round match.

Brilliant from Murray to pull off a whipped forehand pass on the run and draw level at 15-all, then fizz a backhand from the back of the court straight at the Italian who fails to get his volley back over the net. A rare chance for Murray at 15-30, who then inexplicably fires a routine backhand into the net – he’s furious with himself. A wayward forehand then gives Berrettini another point and a 40-30 lead he hasn’t had to work too hard for, and Murray hits the net again to cede the game. Much better from Murray, but a few mistakes too and he has nothing to show for it.

Berrettini wins a monstrous exchange of groundstrokes to go up 0-15 and urges the crowd to acknowledge the beauty of his crosscourt winner, which they do with a roar. Murray finds a good moment for only his fourth ace of the match to draw level, and they exchange points to reach 30-all. Berrettini dumps a return long, and then whips a forehand long too to give Murray the game and finally a relatively routine hold.

No, is the comprehensive answer to that last question, as Berrettini blasts his way through another service game. It’s won to 15 and finishes with yet another ace.

Murray chucks in a sluggish double fault to start the game and has to battle back from 0-30 to 30-all. There he sets himself up for a simple forehand winner but misses, and it’s break point. Berrettini slices a backhand into the net to miss yet another opportunity, before Murray works himself a winner at the net to earn advantage and wins the next rally to close out another service game from the brink. This is gutsy stuff from Murray, given he is virtually playing against the world No 14 without a first serve. Can he put a little pressure on the peerless Berrettini serve?

Berrettini flies through another service game. He has only dropped one point on serve in this third set.

Play is soon back under way and Murray handles the sudden pause well, winning the next three points to complete his recovery from 15-40 down for the second successive service game.

At 0-15 down, Murray produces a really impressive rush and volley to kill off a long rally. He still looks bothered by serving into the sun, however, and Berrettini pounces on a second serve to go to 15-30. Murray’s wayward forehand gives Berrettini two break points and the Scot needs to escape once more. He finds a rare ace to save one break point and get back to 30-40, before play is halted for a medical emergency in the stands. The players sit back down as a unwell spectator is treated.