Andy Murray fired a warning to his Australian Open rivals after his "double bagel" win. Source: Kamran Jebreili / AP
HAD this been baseball, the mercy rule would have been invoked as tennis statisticians were left to trawl through the gruesome wreckage of Andy Murray's withering return to the ATP Tour.
Clinical to the point of disinterest in a hopelessly lopsided mismatch, Murray took a mere 37 minutes (and 24 seconds) to pummel Qatari willdcard Mousa Zayed 6-0, 6-0 in the opening round of the Qatar ExxonMobile Open.
Ranked 2099th in the world, Zayed had no chance, claiming only 17 points to the Wimbledon champion's 48.
Thrust into a match he would not have won with an 11-game handicap, Zousa trudged from the court to the lone solace of a $US10,500 loser's cheque.
As brief as it was, Murray's shellacking was not the fastest in ATP Tour history.
That honour rests with fellow Briton Greg Rusedski, who trounced Carsten Arriens 6-0 6-0 in 29 minutes in Sydney in 1996.
Contesting a singles match for the first time since undergoing back surgery, Murray had not played competitively since October.
Unsurprisingly, the Scot headed straight to the practice court after dismissing Zayed.
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