Marin Cilic has beaten Andy Murray in the final of the Cincinnati Masters, bringing Murray’s 22-match unbeaten run to an end. I served better in the second set. This news story is related to Latest/144172-Murray-beats-Raonic-to-play-Cilic-in-final/ – breaking news, latest news, pakistan ne.
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Having flown to the U.S. 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.
“Today on the court I felt great”, Cilic said. This week has been hard for me coming from Rio.
“Because I’ve won a lot the last few months, keeping the matches shorter is something that has been good, especially this week for sure”.
“I’m in another final now”.
“Now I’m looking forward to a few days’ rest”.
Two-times Cincinnati victor Murray, playing with impressive energy, and broke Raonic again in the ninth game to close out the first set.
Murray did on the other hand, getting the deciding break in the eighth game of the second and after setting up double match-point with a brilliant off-forehand on the rise, Raonic saved them both.
Murray has now won his last 10 sets and still hasn’t lost a singles match since losing the French Open Final. A third match point arrived after a forehand victor by Murray, but this time, the top seed was determined to close the match and so he did when he hit a volley victor to book his spot in the final.
Pliskova has upset Spanish World No.3 Garbine Muguruza 6-1, 6-3 in the semi-finals on Saturday.
Williams has led the WTA rankings for 183 consecutive weeks, the second-longest such stretch. “But it’s different come match time, so I did a little bit of studying”.
“If it happens, it will be awesome”.
“I was pretty much behind from that point on and it was tough”.
Kerber and third seed Halep – victor of her last 13 matches – were delayed an hour by rain and then interrupted for 30 minutes. “I may miss some balls, but I have to just push myself and keep going”. I think I played really high quality tennis.
“I was feeling my rhythm and believed in myself. It feels good to be in the final again”.
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Murray had a touch of trouble closing out the match, as his own unforced error count began to lift.
