epa05506004 Marin Cilic of Croatia celebrates with the Rookwood Cup after defeating Andy Murray of Great Britain in the final of the Western & Southern Open tennis championships at the Linder Family Tennis Center in Mason, near Cincinnati, Ohio, USA, 21 August 2016.
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In the final, Murray will meet Marin Cilic who knocked off Grigor Dimitrov 4-6, 6-3, 7-5 in match that ended past 1:30am.
The win puts Murray into his third Cincinnati final after titles in 2008 and 2011 and ups his career-best win streak to 22.
Earlier, Murray defeated France’s Juan Martin del Potro 7-5, 4-6, 6-2, 7-5 to clinch his second consecutive singles gold medal at Olympics in Rio de Janeiero.
“This season I won my first grand slam, everything what’s happened in the last months is just incredible”. I’ve needed it to be because I haven’t been feeling ideal.
That and Murray fatigue are the reasons to be backing Cilic today, with all the numbers favouring the Scot, who holds serve 10% more often than Cilic in this match-up.
Rafa Nadal is also in the event after winning gold in the Rio doubles and he came through 6-1 7-6 (7/4) against Uruguay’s Pablo Cuevas.
Having flown to the USA from Rio on the same private jet as Rafael Nadal – who complained of injury and tiredness after his early exit in Cincinnati – Murray was playing in a final while hundreds of his fellow Olympic gold medallists were still in Rio ready to party at the closing ceremony. “Go I’ll go out there and give it a good go tomorrow and get a few days break before getting ready for NY”.
“I felt really, really good on the court this week – obviously it shows on the scoreboard”. I played great this week.
“Im definitely going to try to enforce those things, because these are the moments that I can really work on those things, incorporate those things, and hopefully overcome those things”.
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Pliskova served out the biggest win of her career a game later on a second match point. A second set point happened after Murray got some help from the net, but this time, the Canadian couldn’t save it followed by a forehand unforced error. But I certainly didn’t expect to get to the final when I arrived here.
