Andy Murray reached the third round of the Paris Masters with a 6-1 6-2 defeat of Croatian Borna Coric in under an hour.

Murray will next face Belgian David Goffin who he could come up against later in November in the Davis Cup final.

Murray broke Coric in the second game of the first set to assert his authority early on in the match.

The number two seed then held serve for a second time to move into a commanding 3-0 lead.

Murray continued to dominate the set and went on to win it in comfortable fashion by a 6-1 scoreline.

The second set went with serve until the fifth game when Murray broke again before holding to lead 4-2.

Another break of serve in game seven set Murray up for victory which he secured by serving out for a 6-1 6-2 success in 58 minutes.

The Scot now has a busy schedule over the next few weeks, with the ATP Finals in London getting under way on November 15, followed by Britain's first Davis Cup final for 37 years from November 27.

He was due to take on Goffin for the second time this morning, with Murray hoping to pick up valuable information he can take from the Paris hard courts to indoor clay in Ghent later this month.

"Any time you spend time on court with opponents you can learn about their game," he said.

"It's good to play against him but I will obviously, before the tie, watch matches of him playing on clay to learn and understand his game better on that surface

"I don't think the game will have any bearing on the Davis Cup, none at all."

There was no place in the next round for Murray's fellow Briton Aljaz Bedene who lost in straight sets to American John Isner.

The number 13 seed beat Bedene, a qualifier, was able to cruise through the first set before winning a tie-break in the second to clinch a 6-3 7-6 (7/3) success.

Meanwhile, seventh-seed Rafael Nadal also made it to the quarter-finals by defeating Lukas Rosol 6-2, 6-2.

Earlier, Nadal and his Indian partner Leander Paes bowed out of the men's doubles event after suffering a straight sets defeat to the England- Swedish duo of Dominic Inglot and Robert in the opening round.