Sunday, April 5, 2009

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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