French Open 2016: Andy Murray through to third round after another five-set rollercoaster

Andy Murray survived another five-set rollercoaster to scrape through against French wild card Mathias Bourgue and into the third round of the French Open.

After coming for two sets down to defeat Radek Stepanek over two days in round one, Murray was back on court just a day later against little-known Mathias Bourgue.

Murray, the current world number two, was expected to stroll through against the world number 164 but instead, from 6-2 2-0 up, he found himself two sets to one down - losing eight games in row.

Staring at the worst defeat of his career, the world number two did what he invariably does in such situations and found a way back, eventually winning 6-2 2-6 4-6 6-2 6-3 in three hours and 34 minutes.

Murray said: "He was excellent. He was the one dictating a lot of the points, making me run a lot and fighting right to the end. He's going to have a fantastic future for sure.

"I was thinking, 'What happened?' I had 6-2 2-0 and then he started playing unbelievable and I was finding it hard to win points, not games.

"I've played these matches many times and I just tried to fight through to the end. It's been a tough few days and I'm going to have to recover extremely well if I am to go far in this tournament. You can't play too many matches like this."

It is the first grand slam tournament in more than a decade in which Murray has played successive five-setters and the concern must be the toll it has taken both physically and mentally.

The Scot may therefore be somewhat relieved to be facing giant Croatian Ivo Karlovic in the third round given there are unlikely to be many long rallies.