Djokovic defeats Murray to win sixth Australian Open title

– He has 11 grand slam titles, drawing level on the all-time list with Australian Rod laver and Swede Bjorn Borg. This was Murray’s fifth final in Melbourne and he has lost all of them.

Andy Murray, in the background, made a quick exit after his Australian Open final defeat in Melbourne by Novak Djokovic. “No doubt that I’m playing the best tennis of my life in the past 15 months”. “My goal is to play my best in the slams and fight for the trophy”.

Vesnina and Soares won the last four points of the match tiebreaker to take the mixed doubles title with a 6-4, 4-6, 10-5 with over American Coco Vandeweghe and Hora Tecau of Romania. His only recent loss came in the final at Montreal in 2015.

However, the world No. 1 is not short of confidence in catching up with the Swiss Maestro’s record.

“I think I didn’t hit my forehand particularly well at the beginning of the match”, said Murray, who is 2-7 in Slam finals and joins former coach Ivan Lendl as the only men to lose five finals at a Slam. I just want to get home. Whether that looks the same from the outside or not, I don’t know.

“Today I managed to find the right formula for Andy”. I believe I can win every match.

“It’s the one I never won”, Djokovic said early Monday, after winning his record sixth Australian Open, but already casting an eye toward Paris.

The imminent birth of his first child and being away from his pregnant wife Kim proved emotionally very hard for Murray at the Australian Open and he was relieved to be flying home. “Thank you so much for all of your support and I ll be on the next plane home”, he said in a faltering voice. The Scot ended his evening with 65 unforced errors.

Germany’s Angie Kerber took out the Australian Open title, beating world number one, and a 21-time Grand Slam victor, Serena Williams 6-4, 3-6, 6-4.

“I’ve been held on flights for it feels like five days”, he said. “I think, understandable in some respects. It’s not good to begin matches like that against someone like Novak”. “I’m very proud of it, as is my team”.

Djokovic broke Murray twice in a 30-minute opening set, and twice again in the second and once in the third, and only had his serve broken twice.

The slow start saw Murray trail 5-0 after just 19 minutes.

With nine-times French Open champion Nadal no longer the force he was, Djokovic will arrive in Paris as the overwhelming favourite to lift to the Musketeers’ Cup for the first time at his 12th attempt. Had I lost in the third or fourth round it still would have been hard with everything that’s happened.

But having been dragged into a tiebreak, Djokovic sealed the title on his third match point with a clinical ace down the T. “But thank you to the fans for coming”, Murray said, reports the Telegraph. I was able to get myself into the net more.