“You can’t take that away from me”, he said after outlasting Milos Raonic in his five-set semi-final on Friday.
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“It’s about what happens on Sunday”.
Murray went on a run of winning 20 of 25 points to go ahead 4-0 and all but clinch the match and a spot in a ninth Grand Slam final.
Murray made the final after a five-set showdown with up and coming Canadian Milos Raonic.
After playing a remarkable tiebreaker to take a two-sets-to-one lead, Raonic was treated off court after the third game of the fourth set and then was broken at love at 3-3. Both of us will try to serve high percentage of first serves and not allow the other player attack the second serve too many times.
“It’s frustrating when you don’t have much say in the points but I started to get a better read on his serve as the match went on”.
“I need to keep my game plan very well, not have any lapses in concentration and just play the best I can”, he said.
Based on records alone, Novak Djokovic would appear to be the favorite in the Australian Open final against Andy Murray.
Murray said he sensed Raonic slowing down, but had to keep his mind on his own side of the court. “His consistency is incredible and he’s capable of also raising the level towards the end of grand slams, the way he’s been doing it the last few times, so yeah it is obviously right now the biggest task in tennis to beat him in a grand slam final”.
The pair combined to beat Czechs Andrea Hlavackova and Lucie Hradecka 7-6(1) 6-3 to add the Melbourne Park crown to the Wimbledon and U.S Open titles they won a year ago.
Djokovic is gunning for his sixth Australian Open title and 11th overall while Murray is bidding to add to his triumphs at the US Open in 2012 and Wimbledon in 2013.
“I’ve not always given them a lot to cheer but thanks for sticking with me”.
Who do we think will win? . It is not inconceivable he could win all four major tournaments in 2016.
The Scot had to come through a four-hour, five-setter against Milos Raonic on Friday but the extra day’s rest that Djokovic enjoyed after his semi-final against Federer has not been a winning advantage in five of the last eight finals.
“I guess that was sort of just the whole frustration of everything sort of getting out”, said Raonic, who tends not to be demonstrative on court.
“I’ve played him many times, and been in the situation before where haven’t won specific tournaments, like Roland Garros for example, against players like Nadal who were dominating there”, he said in his pre-final press confererence on Saturday. I’ll try to do my best obviously and get my hands on that trophy again.
But the break he earned in the opening game of the match was the only one he got all night. In what will go down as yet another semifinal to remember at the Melbourne Park, the second seed was pushed to the brink by the Canadian Raonic, before the 13th seed broke down with a persistent upper thigh injury which rendered him incapable of seeing out long rallies against one of the world’s premier baseliners, reports Xinhua.
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“The thing about Andy Murray and Novak Djokovic is that their games cancel each other out but Novak seems mentally to be able to hang in there just a bit longer and the pressure seems to tell with Andy”.
