Marin Cilic won the Western and Southern Open over Andy Murray and consequently became the youngest man now playing tennis to win a Masters 1000 title, which is somewhat remarkable given that he is close to 28 years old. “That’s helped keep the matches shorter”. As I said yesterday, this could be a potential preview of a quarterfinal or even final in three weeks at Flushing Meadows.
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Murray said that although it had been hard for him to play constantly coming from Rio, he was all set to put his best foot forward in Cincinnati finals, Sport24 reported.
There will certainly be plenty of reasons to watch as Murray is playing for his 23rd straight win and to close the gap on Novak Djokovic while Kerber will be playing to take over the number one ranking on the WTA.
Second-seeded Swiss Stan Wawrinka overcame 18-year-old American wild card Jared Donaldson 2-6 6-3 6-4 in a match carried over from rainy Tuesday and will next face his doubles partner Grigor Dimitrov of Bulgaria.
Playing in his 71st career Masters event.it’s Cilic’s first final.
Former US Open champion Marin Cilic reached his first Masters semi-final, advancing when Croatian compatriot Borna Coric retired with fatigue after losing the opening set 6-2.
On reaching the 600-win milestone, Murray told atpworldtour.com: “It’s cool that it happened in Cincinnati”.
The Spaniard rallied at the end before a relieved Coric closed it out on his second match point with a backhand victor.
Murray never lost serve and saved all three break point he faced. “Even previous year I was having some good tournaments but searching still for my game”.
British tennis legend Andy Murray showed off his football skills during a semi-finals match at the Cincinnati Masters in OH and it could have seen him penalised. Obviously this is the best week that I’ve played since 2014 US Open.
The second set was a much tighter affair but the Wimbledon champion was broken again by Cilic at 5-5 after saving four break points.
“After the first match I played, I was having problems with my shoulder”.
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“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”.
