It was Murray in the Miami Masters

Murray won her third masters title and the biggest in his career by defeating Novak Djokovic of Serbia in straight sets 6-2, 7-5, in the Sony Ericsson Open in the Miami, Florida.

Murray dominated the first set of the match but in the second set the Serbian gave him a tough battle, and Murray came back from 5-2 down before claiming the title. Early in the second set Murray started to find it difficult for him as his opponent Djokovic started to come to the net a lot more and lost his timing until the end of the match.

Murray starting this season terrific by winning the Dubai Open and Rotterdam Open, he had now a total of 11 ATP titles bringing him alongside with the former British number one Tim Henmann and closer to Greg Rusedski's with 15 a total.

Sunday's final was played in the afternoon heat in Miami were both players quickly drenched in sweat and wrapping their body with ice towels and ate every changeover. Murray start the set with the wide margin of 4-0, and breaking the serve of Djokovic twice. The British playing on top of his game, while the Serbian making a lots of unforced errors, a hard hitting smash and then followed by a wonderful backhand that gave him 5-1 anvantage in the first set.

In the second set errors began to flow on Murray side, Djokovic rejuvenated and began to attcked the net more and more, and got the next four points of the match bringing him into 5-2 lead. In the middle of the match, Murray serve three aces one in the second serve helped Murray to 5-5 and when he broke again, this time to love, the game was well and truly up.

Winning this tournament he secures a cash prize total of $590,000 and also will put him closer or maybe edging Djokovic in the third position in the world ranking. Murray's statement after the match.

"I'm training very hard to try and do that but there are so many great players just now - Novak, Rafa (Nadal), Roger (Federer) - and they've been dominating the Slams for the last few years," he said.

"It would be nice to get in there and take one."

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Azerinka beat the World Number One

In Miami, Florida- Victoria Azerinka of Belarus, captures his first major title by beating the number one seed and the world number one player 6-3, 6-1, in the finals of the Sony Ericsson Open in the hardcourt Miami.

In that final match Serena Williams was bothered by a left thigh injury and got worse as the match goes on. But despite of this defeat, Serena still assured to be the world number player in the WTA ranking in 71st week of her career. In the first set Serena tied the match at 3-3, before began to feel the pain in her thigh which was heavily bandaged which also supporting her knee. And from that point until the end of the match, she only managed to win just one game.

That injury of Serena, was felt by her in the quarter final win over Li Nan of China. Her injury made Serena difficult to to move a little bit in the left, right and moving forward was also difficult. In their previous meeting in the Australian Open Serena forced to retired Azerinka in the fourth round of the tournament due to ill.

Williams was off night on the court with five double faults on the match, with 34 unforced error and a poor 54 percent of successful in first service. Azerinka served for title match point tensed up a little bit, made her second title match point a double fault, before getting the title in the third try.

At the age of 19, Azernka captured her first major title and the third of her career which all have won in 2009 the other two was in Brisbane and Memphis. And expected in this win that Azirinka will elavate her ranking into the eight spot in the world. And here was the statement of Azerinka after she won the title in the Sony Ericsson Open in Miami, Florida.

"It was a great honour to meet Serena in the final and even greater to win against her," said Azarenka. "It's only this season that I have started to believe in myself and to believe that I can win tournaments."

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