WIMBLEDON

  • Venue: All England Club, London
  • Date: 25 June - 8 July

Coverage: Live on BBC One, BBC Two, BBC HD Channel, red button, BBC Radio 5 live, mobiles, tablet and the BBC Sport website

Andy Murray is refusing to look beyond his Wimbledon third-round match with Marcos Baghdatis after seeing Rafael Nadal knocked out by Lukas Rosol.

Nadal, who has beaten Murray in the last two semi-finals and could have met him there again this year, was stunned by the world number 100 in round two.

"It is completely irrelevant to me unless I reach the semi-finals," said Murray, who is third on Centre Court.

"I've got a guy who's been in a Grand Slam final next so that's my focus."

Marcos Baghdatis

Murray game impresses Baghdatis

Baghdatis reached the Australian Open final in 2006, the same year he beat Murray en route to the last four of Wimbledon.

That was their only previous match on grass and the career head-to-head now stands at 3-3, although Murray has won the last two.

The fourth seed is the highest-ranked player left in the bottom half of the draw but he is aware of the threat posed by world number 43 Baghdatis.

"The draw has opened up for Philipp Kohlschreiber - who was meant to be playing Nadal in the next round - not me," Murray told BBC Sport.

"I've got a tough opponent in Baghdatis and maybe he will have a performance like Rosol, you never know, so you've just got to be ready for each match."

Baghdatis is coached by Miles Maclagan, who knows Murray well having worked with the Scot from late 2007 to July 2010.

"When I played him last year in Tokyo it was a little bit weird having Miles there," said the British number one.

Tournament stats so far

Murray Baghdatis

7

Sets played

5

21

Aces

21

118

1st serves in

70

7

Double faults

5

10

Return games won

11

70

Winners

55

14

Unforced errors

22

"But I played him again in Brisbane and felt much more comfortable. Now I wouldn't have thought it would have any bearing on the match really."

Baghdatis beat Albert Montanes in the first round and was leading Grigor Dimitrov 7-5 4-1 when the Bulgarian retired in round two.

The 27-year-old's first appearance on Centre Court this year is against the home favourite, but he said: "The crowd here are very nice to all the players and I'm looking forward to going back to the big courts.

"For sure it's going to be a tough match for me - I'll just go out there, try to find a way to win and do my best.

"He does everything very good. He's a great player - he serves well and has all the strokes, but maybe his backhand down the line is the nicest shot.

Of the Maclagan connection, Baghdatis added: "He knows Andy very much but I don't think we'll talk too much about Andy, we'll talk about what I have to do.

"Everybody knows Andy, everybody knows what he's capable of doing on the court. We'll fight and I'll maybe try to be the winner."

Sixth seed Serena Williams opens play on Centre against Zheng Jie at 13:00 BST, with David Ferrer v Andy Roddick on court before Murray and Baghdatis.

Petra Kvitova, Juan Martin del Potro and Jo-Wilfried Tsonga all play on Court One, with Ana Ivanovic, Victoria Azarenka and Marin Cilic - a potential last-16 opponent for Murray - on Court Two.

Rosol returns to action when he plays Kohlschreiber in the second match on Court 12.