Andy Murray has won his first ATP visit singles coordinate in about nine months with a 6-3 6-7(6) 6-1 triumph over American Tennys Sandgren in the opening round of the Zhuhai Championships. Murray, whose keep going win on the visit came in Brisbane preceding the Australian Open, won twice at the Rafa Nadal Open - a second-level ATP Challenger Tour occasion - a month ago before selecting to come back to the ATP visit for the Asian swing. "After the activity in January it's been troublesome and it was unsure on occasion about whether I needed to continue onward or not," Murray told correspondents in the wake of guaranteeing his first win on the visit since a hip reemerging technique that took steps to end his vocation rashly. "Yet, I'm extremely happy that I can really get the success today and ideally I'll have the option to continue onward. "Today around evening time I was hitting the ball well, development was I think entirely great… I served well. Clearly there's things that I believe I can improve, yet it was certainly progress. "Presently I'm drained and exhausted. (My) muscles are drained from playing the match, yet as far as how my hip feels, that feels great." Murray returning to his best Murray made his arrival to the circuit during the grasscourt swing not long ago yet just played copies before his singles rebound at the Cincinnati Masters and the Winston-Salem Open finished in first-round annihilations. The 32-year-old terminated 13 experts and didn't confront a solitary break point in the match that kept going two hours and 41 minutes in muggy conditions. Murray had the chance to win in straight sets when he had a match point at 6-5 in the second-set tiebreak, yet Sandgren won the following three to bring it into the choosing set. Be that as it may, Sandgren battled in the third set, dropping serve twice to give Murray a 4-0 lead and the American likewise required a long therapeutic break to have his foot tied. Sandgren, as of now positioned 344 places above Murray, figured out how to hold serve once however it didn't keep an unmistakably depleted Murray from serving out the match to set up a last-16 conflict with seventh seed Alex De Minaur.