PARIS (Reuters) - Tenth seed Andy Murray turned what was predicted to be a potential shock into a stroll by crushing Argentine Jose Acasuso 6-4 6-0 6-4 in the second round on Wednesday.

Murray, who had not won at Roland Garros before this week, never took his foot off the gas against the claycourt specialist as he triumphed in 98 minutes.

"Sometimes you go on the court and feel like you've got a little something to prove," Murray told reporters.

"Acasuso might not be a (Roger) Federer or (Novak) Djokovic or (Rafael) Nadal but he's ranked 40, 45 in the world mainly on clay. I went out and played great and showed I'm a very good player on clay."

The Scot took the first set in 34 minutes before producing several exquisite groundstrokes in the second as the world number 49 struggled with his movement at the back of the court.

Acasuso arrested the loss of seven successive games at the start of the third but Murray broke once more before winning on his third match point to book a meeting with Spanish 19th seed Nicolas Almagro.

"I was very pleased. It was a great performance," said Murray.

SHOT SELECTION

"I did everything well, served and returned well. Overall I didn't make too many mistakes. I was very aggressive and my shot selection was excellent.

"To win against him in straight sets and not lose serve and break five, six times, it doesn't happen too often a match goes as smoothly as that."

The only mishap for Murray was when he accidentally hit a linesman with his racket while serving for the match.

Luckily no permanent damage was done.

"It's never happened to me before where I've hit a linesman with the racket," he said.

"I was quite far back in the court, I had a little bit of space to hit into and I thought I was going to hit the passing shot.

"When I took the racket back I felt I hit him very hard. I think it was on his head or his shoulder. Obviously I couldn't control the ball because my racket was all over the place."

(Writing by Miles Evans and Pritha Sarkar, editing by Tony Jimenez)