Appearances can be deceiving but mostly there are not. A lightly grilled audience in the Rod Laver Arena witnessed the evidence of that when the grooved and muscled tennis machine that is Andy Murray methodically deconstructed his opponent, Robin Haase, a slim and ambitious contender from the old school, to advance to the second round of the Australian Open. They were born within a month of each other, in 1987, and each stands 6ft 3in, armed with enough talent to win any rally, but not, in the Dutchman's case, necessarily any match. Murray outweighs Haase by a stone, all of it pure power, and that is one reason the Scot resides on a different part of Planet Tennis: in many of his matches he is a lion among lambs. He arrived in Australian fresh from a prolonged winter training camp in Florida; Haase, who does not have those resources, turned up having won just one of his past 10 matches. After an hour and 37 minutes the world No 3 had crushed the world...