That’s because his 4-6, 6-3, 7-5 semi-final victory over Grigor Dimitrov was delayed two hours by rain and didn’t finish until 1:20 am Sunday (5:20 GMT).
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He hit triple the winners of Murray and dropped just six first-serve points to claim his first Masters 1000 and 15th career title.
He’s around a [1.22] chance today and for me the best value wager here is to side with a correct score wager in set one.
“If you’re a bit lower on confidence, regardless of how fresh you are, if you haven’t played loads of matches you make bad decisions in those moments”, Murray said.
It was the Croat’s first victory in the ATP Tour’s premier series in his 71st appearance, and it ended a dominant run by the “big four” of Murray, Novak Djokovic, Roger Federer and Rafael Nadal, who had won the past 18 tournaments in the series. “I’ve played a lot of tennis”. This week has been hard for me coming from Rio. “It’s been a great run over the last few months”.
“I got a wild card here when I was 18. Go I’ll go out there and give it a good go tomorrow and get a few days break before getting ready for NY”.
Murray will be playing in his seventh straight final after winning his 22nd consecutive match. He owns four titles in 2016 and has defeated Raonic five times since January.
It was the German’s the second defeat in a final in just over a week after losing to Monica Puig in the gold medal Rio match. Djokovic is evens favourite, but Murray starts as close to the world number one in NY as he has been for some time. The Brit is aiming to win his third title at the Western and Southern Open. Seven finals in a row, winning Wimbledon again, and the Olympics.
Kerber has tried to avoid thinking about No. 1, because she did not want to put any more pressure on herself. We were sweating a lot, so a lot of up and downs, especially in the third set. The Canadian didn’t have the best start as he got broken in the first game of the match and was not able to recover from that.
“I was serving really well with one racquet, so I stayed with it the entire match, and was switching on my return games to see if I could improve there”.
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Murray’s hopes of adding the Cincinnati title have been boosted by the exit of several other leading players.
