The new ball was taken at the first available opportunity but New Zealand were unable to makea further breakthrough, Mushfiqur completing his fifty with a straight drive for four off O'Brien.
Gulbis did well to hang in for most of the third set as the boisterous New York crowd willed him to makea fight of it, but Murray finally made the breakthrough in game 11 with a fantastic cross-court backhand winner and he served out for a comfortable victory.