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Murray makes third Cincinnati final

Former US Open champ Marin Cilic snapped Andy Murray’s 22 match win streak Sunday to claim his first ATP Masters 1000 title with a 6-4, 7-5 win at the Cincinnati tournament.

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The No.12-seeded Croatian didn’t get to bad until 4 A.M. after his three-set semifinal triumph over Grigor Dimitrov, but Cilic navigated a quick turnaround and sailed past a red-hot Andy Murray in the Western and Southern Open final, 6-4, 7-5. “Obviously today didn’t go how I would have wanted”.

“He served a couple of doubles that first game and I managed to get the break, and then had the momentum from there”, said Murray, who registered his fifth win against Raonic this season.

Murray:”I’m very proud of this week”.

“Today I felt that the serve was a big factor in the game”, he said. But this week has been hard for me coming from Rio. “I’m glad I don’t have to wait round until 11:00 to get on the court”. He now lies in tenth in the race to London, but a good run at the US Open will boost his placing. He owns four titles this year and has defeated Raonic five times since January.

While Tomic was no pushover, making Murray earn his service games in the second set, it ultimately mattered little as the top seed acquired the deciding break to love in the ninth game of the second.

The remaining last-eight clash features Austrian eighth seed Dominic Thiem and this year’s losing Wimbledon finalist, Milos Raonic, who recovered from a second-set wobble to defeat Japanese qualifier Yuichi Sugita 6-1 3-6 6-1.

Pliskova has upset Spanish World No.3 Garbine Muguruza 6-1, 6-3 in the semi-finals on Saturday. Williams has been in the top spot for 183 consecutive weeks.

“I tried my best, but sometimes you have days where it’s not working so good”, Kerber said.

“If it happens, it will be unbelievable. I have to focus on a match against a tough opponent”. “I may miss some balls, but I have to just push myself and keep going”.

“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”. I tried to stay positive and think that I could win. “I feel like I took that all in and adapted well”.

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Both players came into the quarter-finals off the back of wins over seeds.

Juan Monaco of Argentina hits a return to Andy Murray of Great Britain on Day 5 of the Western & Southern Open at the Lindner Family Tennis Center