England’s Paul Casey is a stroke further back in a five-way tie for fifth alongside 2012 victor Webb Simpson, Jim Herman, Australia’s Cameron Percy and 2007 champion Brandt Snedeker.
Bolt has now won 10 of 11 individual global sprint titles since 2008, with the only blip occurring when he false-started in the 100m final at the 2011 world championships.
(His time on Sunday was 9.79 seconds.) Perhaps more concerning is the arrival of the next generation of world-class sprinters, including collegians Trayvon Bromell (Baylor) and Andre De Grasse (Southern California), who emerged from relative obscurity to tie for bronze in 9.92 seconds.
But Usain Bolt yesterday underlined his status as the fastest man on the planet, crossing the line in his season-best 9.79 seconds to beat his rival by just one-hundredth of a second.
Bolt, the reigning Olympic champion has not been crushed within the 100m or 200m in six main global championships going again to 2007, though he was disqualified from the shorter race on the Deagu world championships in 2011.
Usain Bolt has retained his crown as world 100 metres champion following a thrilling victory over American rival Justin Gatlin at the Bird’s Nest in Beijing.
While Djokovic has come in as a -2500 favorite (bet365), odds that imply about a 96% chance of winning, when odds on the Murray/Nishikori match are released I would expect the World No. 3, Murray, to be an ever so slight favorite.
Murray, 28, moved up above Federer to second in the ATP’s latest rankings on Monday, courtesy of his dazzling displays in Montreal culminating in 6-4 4-6 6-3 victory over Serb Djokovic in an absorbing three-hour duel.