Jamie Murray bags debut ATP World Tour win

The ATP World Tour Finals continued in London on Monday afternoon, with local favourite Andy Murray completing a 6-4 6-4 victory over David Ferrer.

As I mentioned in my guide to the players article Ferrer doesn’t fare well here at the O2 and against the top players in general, with a game reliant too heavily upon solidity and grinding down lesser opposition – and he does very well with it.

“He’s playing good. He was in the final [at the Paris Masters] last week”.

The Spaniard was annoyed by an incorrect overrule from umpire Cedric Mourier on the first point and found himself 15-40 down.

Murray was broken to end every set in his 7-5 7-5 6-4 defeat in July, and Ferrer suffered the same fate Monday, cracking on serve to conclude both sets.

Murray adopted a much more attacking approach that day against the Spaniard and ventured to the net more often than usual to finish off points.

Nadal broke back in the next game and wore down Wawrinka in a marathon eighth game that lasted almost seven minutes to secure a second break that settled the set.

Besides his ace in the first game, Murray added three more, without contributing a double fault.

“The Davis Cup has been great, I’ve won a couple of Masters Series titles, my clay-court season was the best it’s ever been”.

“It was a tough match with a lot of long rallies”, he said.

However, despite recovering from being 4-1 down to 4-3 in the second set, an error from Murray handed their Italian opponents another break opportunity, which they duly converted to force the encounter into a first to 10 points match tie-breaker.

“For sure I will have to play better, but you never know”.

In contrast to Nadal’s struggles, Wawrinka has been in the best form of his life, winning four titles including his second Grand Slam, and the world number four was hoping to cap his year by reaching the final of the Tour Finals for the first time. I feel good just now.