GETTY Andy Murray is a two-time champion at Wimbledon, gunning for a third title

Between him and a spot in the fourth round stood Fabio Fognini, the No28 seed against who Murray had far from a perfect record. In their six meetings, he has lost three times including the most recent one on the clay of Rome earlier this year. However, they have never played on grass and the world No1 overcame a serious scare to book his spot in the second week. Andy Murray v Fabio Fognini updates ANDY MURRAY WINS 6-2, 4-6, 6-1, 7-5 That was breath-taking and in the end, it was the misfiring Murray serve that came through in the final game to close out the match. 15,000 fans on Centre Court go wild as he serves an ace out wide to finish a sensational match! 8.55pm: Would you believe it? Murray forces break point to win a fourth straight game but Fognini drops a sensational forehand onto the line. Another long rally ends in a Fognini unforced error and THIS time, Fognini nets! Murray will serve for the match! 8.50pm: Another unbelievable rally at 30-30 ends with a Fognini winner to force set point No5, this time on the defending champion’s serve, but the Italian can’t find a way through, flying long. Murray seals the game with a great serve out wide and he has come back from 2-5 to parity in this fourth set now, including set points in three straight games. Just wow. 8.45pm: Oh wow. Set point, 40-30 and Fabio Fognini stops the point to challenge. Except he hasn’t got any left and he loses the point! Remarkable. I have never ever seen that before. And it proves costly too as Murray forces a break point and takes it, Fognini netting a drop-shot. Drama left, right and centre here. 8.40pm: Are we going to five? This wasn’t in the script if you’re a Murray fan. Fognini plays a sensational couple of points to bring up set point on his opponent’s serve but can’t convert. Fognini serving at 5-3 to take us into a fifth set. 8.23pm: Just to get to the bottom of this point penalty, we think it's because of a "visual obscenity" that involved Fognini putting his finger in his mouth and pulling it out. In Italy, I think that's much more offensive than it is here. Meanwhile, they are still playing a very entertaining tennis match. Murray finds himself break point down at 2-3 only for Fognini to fly a second-serve return long. A real let-off for the champ. But then the world No1 misses a drop-shot at deuce and double-faults for the sixth time in the match and Fognini breaks for 4-2!

GETTY Fabio Fognini got under Andy Murray's skin in front of his home crowd

8.17pm: Well, well, well. Fognini is known for his antics on court and it has got him into trouble with the chair umpire. A Murray double-fault, his fifth of the match, brought up 0-30 but he then fought back to 40-30. All of a sudden it’s “Game Murray” because the umpire has docked the Italian a point for an obscenity. He is, as you might imagine, not very happy about it but will have to compose himself and serve at 2-2. 8.10pm: It's amazing how much Murray hates playing Fognini, who has twice blitzed him on clay. The main reason seems to be the random moments of magic of which Fognini is capable and he produces another one at 30-30 on his own serve to bring up game point when Murray had a foothold in the game. But the Italian holds to make it 2-1 on serve in the fourth set. 8pm: And Murray has the set. I don't think the injury had much to do with it, although there is still plenty of wincing from Fognini. 7.55pm: The dreaded medical timeout. The Centre Court crowd are getting restless as Fognini gets his ankle strapped and so is Murray. The Scot has been jumping around on the baseline for a couple of minutes to keep warm and perhaps to put the squeeze on the server. He gets back up to serve and Murray immediately forces three break points, only one of which Murray needs. The world No1 has a double break and surely the third set. 7.50pm: Sometimes in tennis you have to hang tough and I think that’s what Murray is telling himself at the moment. Fognini is the kind of player whose level will drop if you hang around long enough, and so it proves. The Italian does get a dodgy kick at break point but Murray won’t care and he hits the front again in the third set. Additionally, Fognini has called for the trainer at the next change of ends to deal with what we understand is an ankle problem. Murray consolidates his break and leads 4-1 in the third. 7.40pm: Murray rubs his eye in dejection after netting yet another return to let Fognini off the hook. It was a make-able one at 40-30 but instead we've had 80 minutes of tennis and it's 1-1, at one set all in the third.

7.30pm: There it is, then. Fognini wins the second set 6-4, holding to 15 including a shocking low bounce that skuttles under Murray's racket to bring up set point. The Italian spurns the first chance but when Murray nets, it seals the second set and means Murray will have to go to four sets at least to win this one. 7.20pm: I think it's the unpredictability of Fognini that leaves Murray stumped. He's just held serving at 2-4 but he doesn't look happy at all. 7.15pm: This is all a bit ugly from Murray. Fognini is a guy who always seems to unsettle him and now he saves the first break point in game five with an ace but then nets a forehand and is 3-2 down. The champion needs to find his rhythm here. 7.05pm: I don’t think you’ll be surprised to read that as soon as Fognini gets a break, he gives it right back. Murray follows the break back with a love hold and the Scot is probably breathing a little more easily now. He’s also checking his notes in the bag. Not sure what they say but maybe “don’t miss”?

GETTY Fabio Fognini quietened Centre Court by winning the second set

6.57pm: I have to say, Murray does not look like the complete tennis player we all know he is today. A massive double-fault in the opening game of the second set makes it 30-40 and he is having a big old chat with himself. It’s as though he’s trying psyche himself up for the match. An ace saves the first one but a wayward forehand brings up another and Fognini breaks to take the lead in the second set. 6.48pm: Well that set disappeared quickly. Fognini does his best to fight back, drawing 15-30 only for Murray to produce a kick-serve that practically bounces over the Italian’s head! But he does eventually get break point only for Murray to serve wide into the ad court and run round the return to hit a terrific forehand winner. Exemplary from the champion. The effect of the hold is to put the pressure back on Fognini and his serve goes to pieces. Murray breaks to love with two double-faults to seal it. Murray takes the first set 6-2. 6.40pm: Murray draws the first break point of the match with Fognini serving at 2-3, the Italian missing three forehands in the game. The Scot really just puts the return back into play and allows his opponent to repeat the trick, netting a forehand to give the world No1 first blood. Murray leads 4-2. 6.25pm: A weird first game as Murray hits two exemplary aces follow by a double-fault but the world No1 holds anyway. Fognini’s first service game is less straight forward and Murray gets a look at a second serve at 30-30 but can’t capitalise.

GETTY Andy Murray won the first set 6-2

Murray to serve at 1-1. 6.10pm: Murray is out on court at last, two bags in hand. One presumably for rackets and the other for playing kit. He looks like he's going for a long weekend in the Highlands. Maybe Mull. Or Lochgilphead. Somewhere like that. Fognini meanwhile has the headband and facial hair. He's also got some strapping on the back of his left calf. Boris Becker has just revealed he went to Fognini's wedding. Oh to be a fly on the wall at that rehearsal dinner. Murray to serve...