Andy Murray won through to the second round of the men's doubles at the Qatar Open after he took a champions tie-break victory along with Nenad Zimonjic of Serbia.
Murray and Zimonjic lost the first set 6-3 to German pair Daniel Brands and Florian Meyer but hit back to take the next 7-6 (7/5) on the tie-break.
That took the match into a champions tie-break and Murray and Zimonjic won that 10-8.
The world number four had returned to action in the Mubadala World Tennis Championship exhibition in Abu Dhabi on Boxing Day following back surgery.
The Wimbledon champion lost to Jo-Wilfried Tsonga before beating Stanislas Wawrinka to finish fifth in the exhibition tournament.
He had a minor operation on a long-standing back problem in September, bringing an early end to his season.
There was further British success in the Qatar Open doubles as Dominic Inglot and Treat Huey, of the Philippines, won their first round match 6-3 7-6 (7/4) against Alexandr Dolgopolov, of the Ukraine, and Russian Teymuraz Gabashvili.
Britain's Dan Evans enjoyed a rare victory in the men's singles qualifying round as he beat Japan's Taro Daniel in straight sets.
British number two Evans, who has failed to reach the same heights after making the third round of last season's US Open, won 6-2 6-2 to reach the main draw.
In the first round Evans will take on Latvian world number 24 Ernests Gulbis.
Why are you making commenting on The Herald only available to subscribers?
It should have been a safe space for informed debate, somewhere for readers to discuss issues around the biggest stories of the day, but all too often the below the line comments on most websites have become bogged down by off-topic discussions and abuse.
heraldscotland.com is tackling this problem by allowing only subscribers to comment.
We are doing this to improve the experience for our loyal readers and we believe it will reduce the ability of trolls and troublemakers, who occasionally find their way onto our site, to abuse our journalists and readers. We also hope it will help the comments section fulfil its promise as a part of Scotland's conversation with itself.
We are lucky at The Herald. We are read by an informed, educated readership who can add their knowledge and insights to our stories.
That is invaluable.
We are making the subscriber-only change to support our valued readers, who tell us they don't want the site cluttered up with irrelevant comments, untruths and abuse.
In the past, the journalist’s job was to collect and distribute information to the audience. Technology means that readers can shape a discussion. We look forward to hearing from you on heraldscotland.com
Comments & Moderation
Readers’ comments: You are personally liable for the content of any comments you upload to this website, so please act responsibly. We do not pre-moderate or monitor readers’ comments appearing on our websites, but we do post-moderate in response to complaints we receive or otherwise when a potential problem comes to our attention. You can make a complaint by using the ‘report this post’ link . We may then apply our discretion under the user terms to amend or delete comments.
Post moderation is undertaken full-time 9am-6pm on weekdays, and on a part-time basis outwith those hours.
Read the rules hereComments are closed on this article