Murray battles past Dimitrov to clinch China Open title

Murray’s 6-4, 7-6 (2) win over unseeded Grigor Dimitrov is his fifth title of the year and 40th of his career, while third-ranked Radwanska sealed her win 6-4, 6-2 over Briton Johanna Konta with an ace.

In other matches, South Africa’s Kevin Anderson defeated another Chinese wild card, Li Zhe, 6-1, 6-3; Italy’s Fabio Fognini beat Spain’s Albert Ramos-Vinolas 7-5, 6-3; and Serbia’s Janko Tipsarevic ousted Philipp Kohlschreiber of Germany 6-2, 6-4.

While Murray has triumphed at Wimbledon and the Olympics this year, Djokovic’s form has dipped since beating his rival to the French Open title.

“It was probably my best match of the week”, Murray, who dropped just eight points on his first serve, told the ATP website. At 30-30, Dimitrov managed to battle for a game point, but a string of loose shots not helped by Murray’s great defence, gave the Brit the break and a 3-2 lead as he closed in on the title. “Obviously, Andy’s one of the toughest competitors out there, no doubt, and all credit to him today”. This news story is related to Print/155994-Murray-Dimitrov-advance-to-China-Open-final/ – breaking news, latest news, pakistan ne.

Murray came through another easy hold of serve to go one game away from taking the first set. A tight Dimitrov double faulted into the net as Murray broke to open the match. Murray was able to save the lone break point try coming from Grigor Dimitrov in the opening frame.

The British number one dominated proceedings from the start, coming back from a break down in the opening set to win five consecutive games.

The big-serving Australian won a tight match, in which there were only three breaks, 4-6, 6-3, 7-5. “But as of now I’m really enjoying my journey, I’m really enjoying working hard and really working towards playing matches like these against players like Agnieszka, so hopefully I’ll have many more in the future”. The three-times grand slam victor Murray will now face fifth seed Spaniard n David Ferrer who scored a convincing victory against an in-form Alexander Zverev.

Andy Murray realized his sweaty march to a milestone with a glittering golden shower. He operates tirelessly from the back of the court, but Murray has the additional advantage of changing defence to offence, which the Spaniard does not do as well as the three-time Grand Slam champion.

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“Losing five serves in a row is something that you can not (do and) win a match like this”.