Andy Murray strolls past Blaz Rola and into third round at Wimbledon

Andy Murray cruised into the third round at Wimbledon with a straight sets win over Blaz Rola. Photograph: Glyn Kirk/AFP/Getty Images

Andy Murray took a stroll in the sun on Wednesday, pausing from time to time on the neat grass of Court No1 to pop racket on ball and dismiss Blaz Rola - great name, lousy game - in just 84 minutes.

Rola, 92 in the world, brought a reputation as a big hitter to his big-time debut in the second round of the tournament, but blasting the ball out of bounds or thumping it into the net did no more than hand Murray a 6-1, 6-1, 6-0 win, the easiest of all his 39 victories over eight years at Wimbledon.

Only Nikolay Davydenko's meek submission two years ago, when he scraped together just six games against the rampant Scot, comes close for onesidedness.

'This is his first year on grass, and he's just come out of college,' Murray said, charitably, 'but he's broken into top hundred, and he'll definitely improve. But I played very well today. If you can finish matches as quickly as possible it helps in the long run.'

James Ward, who beat Rola to qualify for the French Open and then again at Queen's, told Murray about the Slovenian's forehand - both lethal and a liability. So it proved.

Rola began badly - with a double fault and botched ground strokes on both wings to give Murray the cushion of an early break - and it stayed that way for him. When he sliced his backhand into the net 26 minutes later to hand the champion the first set, his task looked not only onerous but pointless.

He was encouraged at the start of the third when he worked hard for two break points - and dispirited when Murray put his third ace of the match past him to save the second one. At deuce, a ball dropped from Murray's shorts mid-rally and they had to play the point again, but he held and Rola's moment was gone. It was Murray's only vaguely embarrassing moment of the afternoon.

As Ward had correctly observed, the Slovenian's forehand seriously handicapped him on this surface and he kept stroking the ball into the net and long, unable to control Murray's top-spin and loop. It was no surprise that Murray broke him at the first opportunity, Rola's ninth forehand in error of the match sealing it. This was only his sixth outing on grass at senior level, and, at 6ft 4in, he plainly was uncomfortable getting low enough to bring the racket effectively on to the skidding ball.

He could not hold his own serve and, except for the occasional unforced error, struggled to win a point on Murray's - which was clicking with pleasing precision - and it was difficult to believe this was the player who had accounted for one-time top 30 player Pablo Andujar in just 101 minutes on Monday.

There were ironic cheers from the crowd and a sheepish smile from Rola when he held for 1-5 - but Murray served out to love - a highlight his crosscourt backhand winner to nullify a quite ferocious forehand from Rola.

The third set wizzed by in 24 minutes, Murray's final dagger a drop shot that left Rola stranded.