• Australian Open champion loses to world No116 in second round • Andy Murray advances to last eight after beating Guillermo García-López

Roger Federer is out of the Dubai Duty Free Championships, suffering a second-round defeat by Russia’s Evgeny Donskoy.

Federer, who won his 18th grand slam title by taking January’s Australian Open, was beaten 3-6, 7-6 (9-7), 7-6 (7-5) by the world No 116 in two hours and two minutes. The Swiss appeared to be cruising in winning the first set in 24 minutes but Donskoy overturned three match points in the second set and Federer relinquished a 5-1 lead in the third set tie-break.

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The shock defeat came after Andy Murray cruised through to the third round with a 6-2, 6-0 win over Spain’s Guillermo García-López. The Spaniard had won their last meeting in Indian Wells five years ago but there was no sniff of an upset here as the world No1 eased through to face the German Philipp Kohlschreiber.

Murray played himself into form on Tuesday during his opening win over Malek Jaziri – his first singles match for five weeks. The Scot was on top of his game from the off against the 97th-ranked García-López, striking the ball with authority and pushing his opponent well behind the baseline.

García-López won fewer than half the points on his own serve and his only break point came in the opening game, which Murray saved with a confident backhand winner. The Scot finished the match, which lasted an hour and 12 minutes, with a run of eight successive games.

He is likely to find things tougher in the quarter-finals against Kohlschreiber: the world No29 has won only one of their five previous matches but the 33-year-old has taken at least a set in all of them.