Murray out as Fish prevails

Andy Murray crashed out of the Aegon Championships after crumbling in the decisive tie-break of his third-round clash with Mardy Fish.

Resuming the match with the score locked at 4-6 6-1 3-3, the world number four lost the final set 6-7 (2-7) to leave his Queen's title defence in ruins.

Having initially looked so comfortable, Murray fell to pieces in the breaker with his accuracy deserting him in what is a major setback in his preparations for Wimbledon.

Both players easily held serve as the match restarted amid grey skies at Queen's with a quarter-final place against Michael Llodra awaiting the winner.

Murray had won 12 straight points on serve and a tie-break was needed to separate the rivals.

Fluffing a simple backhand, Murray bounced his racket onto the ground in frustration and then fired a long forehand as the tension grew.

Fish secured four match points and Murray, who now looked horribly out of sorts, fired a backhand long to concede the match.

The match was controversially halted at 8.30pm on Thursday night due to bad light - a decision that infuriated Murray.

The Scot had just pegged back a 3-0 deficit in the final set and felt Fish's appeal to umpire Cedric Mourier was an act of gamesmanship.

Mourier accepted Fish's pleas and the American walked off, leaving Murray waiting to resume play until he realised what had happened and angrily confronted the official.