On this current streak, Murray has won titles at Queen’s, Wimbledon and the Rio gold medal.
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Cilic, whose semi-final against Grigor Dimitrov finished at 1.35am local time on Sunday morning, told atpworldtour.com: “I thought I was going to have a good chance if I played well”.
“I felt that I played really, really high quality tennis”. “Andy was starting to play a bit better, and, I mean, definitely huge win against Andy who has been in a great run last couple months”.
On the victory, the Dunblane ace said: “I knew that coming straight from the Olympics I was going to be exhausted, but I’ve still managed to win”. This week has been hard for me coming from Rio. Cilic’s two wins over Murray came in the 2014 Rotterdam Open and 2009 US Open. Just when Murray was two points away from the final, the rain appeared again but after a short suspension, it was made a decision to play again. The Scot leads the series 8-4, beating Raonic four times in 2016 including the Wimbledon final.
It was Murray’s fifth win against Raonic this season, who contributed two double faults which set the tone for the contest.
If he were to win the title for a third time he could trail Djokovic by a scant 815 points.
Williams has been the number one for 183 straight weeks.
Williams dropped out at the start of the tournament because of an inflamed shoulder, leaving her ranking vulnerable. Now, there is no avoiding it. “I did quite a few things well today”, Raonic said.
Two-times Cincinnati victor Murray, playing with impressive energy, and broke Raonic again in the ninth game to close out the first set. One of them has won each of the last 18 Masters championships.
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The Czech, who now owns seven career titles and stands 3-4 against Kerber, claimed the opening set in 32 minutes and needed 62 minutes in total to complete her role as spoiler. I had a break point in his first service game and 0-30 in his next service game.
