British tennis star, Andy Murray, has been eliminated from the Australian Open on Thursday after suffering straight-set defeats to Taro Daniel.

The 28-year-old Japanese dumped the 34-year-old former World No1 by (6-4, 6-4, 6-4) at the John Cain Arena in Australia.

The five-time finalist in Melbourne Park had no answers for the world No120’s questions and surrendered after two hours and 48 minutes on court.

Murray, ranked 113, missed out on the opportunity to secure his 696th career win that would take him back into the world’s top 100.

See the results from Day 4 of the Australian Open Grand Slam tennis tournament at Melbourne Park on Thursday:

Men’s singles

2nd round

Pablo Andujar (ESP) bt Alex Molcan (SVK) 6-4, 7-6 (8/6), 0-6, 6-1

Alex De Minaur (AUS x32) bt Kamil Majchrzak (POL) 6-4, 6-4, 6-2

Taro Daniel (JPN) bt Andy Murray (SCO) 6-4, 6-4, 6-4

Roberto Bautista Agut (ESP x15) bt Philipp Kohlschreiber (GER) 6-1, 6-0, 6-3

Taylor Fritz (USA x20) bt Frances Tiafoe (USA) 6-4, 6-3, 7-6 (7/5)

Benoit Paire (FRA) bt Grigor Dimitrov (BUL x26) 6-4, 6-4, 6-7 (4/7), 7-6 (7/2)

Stefanos Tsitsipas (GRE x4) bt Sebastian Baez (ARG) 7-6 (7/1), 6-7 (5/7), 6-3, 6-4

Andrey Rublev (RUS x5) bt Ricardas Berankis (LTU) 6-4, 6-2, 6-0

Marin Cilic (CRO x27) bt Norbert Gombos (SVK) 6-2, 6-3, 3-6, 7-6 (8/6)

Daniel Evans (GBR x24) bt Arthur Rinderknech (FRA) walkover

Felix Auger-Aliassime (CAN x9) bt Alejandro Davidovich (ESP) 7-6 (7/4), 6-7 (4/7), 7-6 (7/5), 7-6 (7/4)

Christopher O’Connell (AUS) bt Diego Schwartzman (ARG x13) 7-6 (8/6), 6-4, 6-4

Maxime Cressy (USA) bt Tomas Machac (CZE) 6-1, 3-6, 6-1, 7-6 (7/5)

Botic van de Zandschulp (NED) bt Richard Gasquet (FRA) 4-6, 6-0, 4-0 ret

Women’s singles

2nd round

Clara Tauson (DEN) bt Anett Kontaveit (EST x6) 6-2, 6-4

Danielle Collins (USA x27) bt Ana Konjuh (CRO) 6-4, 6-3

Elise Mertens (BEL x19) bt Irina Begu (ROM) 6-3, 6-2

Shuai Zhang (CHN) bt Elena Rybakina (KAZ x12) 6-4, 1-0 ret

Tamara Zidansek (SLO x29) bt Heather Watson (GBR) 7-6 (7/4), 6-4

Alize Cornet (FRA) bt Garbine Muguruza (ESP x3) 6-3, 6-3

Iga Swiatek (POL x7) bt Rebecca Peterson (SWE) 6-2, 6-2

Darya Kasatkina (RUS x25) bt Magda Linette (POL) 6-2, 6-3

Sorana Cirstea (ROM) bt Kristina Kucova (SVK) 6-2, 6-4

Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova (RUS x10) bt Samantha Stosur (AUS) 6-2, 6-2

Kaia Kanepi (EST) bt Marie Bouzkova (CZE) 6-2, 7-6 (7/3)

Maddison Inglis (AUS) bt Hailey Baptiste (USA) 7-6 (7/4), 2-6, 6-2

Marketa Vondrousova (CZE x31) bt Liudmila Samsonova (RUS) 6-2, 7-5

Aryna Sabalenka (BLR x2) bt Xinyu Wang (CHN) 1-6, 6-4, 6-2

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