The match went to three sets and was an exciting thing to watch through and through.
“For sure I’m happy because coming back from injury is never easy, especially at our age. But winning here in Rome against a really big player like Andy, I mean I’m happy,” Fognini said.
“Now it’s important to recover and let’s see how I recover and I wake up tomorrow because it’s going to be tricky and a nice question to my mind if I will recover well. But I just want to enjoy this night and going home with this victory.”
It was the first time that the players went up against each other since 2019 in Shanghai.
Both players worked hard for every point with the first six games lasting 48 minutes long.
“I was feeling really good at the beginning of the clay in Estoril, I was playing great. But I got injured and I stopped like a month, I was 10 days with the crutches,” Fognini added.
“These kind of matches give me a lot of emotions and really good memories.”
Fognini is a veteran like Murray, although he did not reach the heights that Scott has achieved, he once occupied a spot in the World’s top 10.
This loss is another blow to Murray’s ego but he’s not that down as just last week, he won a Challenger title in France.
Fognini will face Miomir Kecmanovic in the second round.