Murray, who says he does not expect to play much beyond this summer, lost 6-4 6-4 6-2 to 2015 French Open winner Wawrinka, the same player who eliminated him in the opening stage when the Briton last played in Paris back in 2020 and also in the 2017 semi-finals on his previous appearance before that.
Murray was broken in the first game of the match as Wawrinka unfurled some booming groundstrokes – a sign of things to come – with the former world No 1 then unable to take the two break points he carved out in the fourth game of the opener.
