Foot-fault claims tie Croat up in knots as Murray marches on

Andy Murray reached the third round at Wimbledon with a controversial four-set win against Ivo Karlovic which prompted the giant Croat to accuse tournament officials of bias towards the British number one.

Murray needed to show a lot of mental strength to come through 7-5, 6-7 (7-5), 6-2, 7-6 (7-4) against the biggest of big servers, with the Scot recovering from dropping the second set to edge through in a fourth-set tiebreak.

But Karlovic, at 6ft 10in the tallest player to be ranked in the top 100, was left furious after being called for a succession of foot faults, including one in the final tiebreak.

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