Djokovic wins fifth Miami Open

Djokovic earned his fifth Key Biscayne title Sunday, beating Andy Murray for the seventh consecutive time by showing superior stamina in the subtropical heat to win the Miami Open final 7-6 (3), 4-6, 6-0.

Murray broke in the final game of the second set to even the match, but fatigue then became a factor on a sunny, humid, 80-degree afternoon. Djokovic was the fitter player down the stretch.

"It was brutal. It's very warm," Djokovic said. "I was prepared for a physical battle. But it's one thing to prepare and another thing to experience it on the court. I was expecting very long rallies and just managed to play the third set the way I was supposed to, and I'm thrilled with this win."

The top-ranked Djokovic became the first man to complete the Indian Wells-Key Biscayne spring sweep three times. He beat Murray in the Indian Wells semifinals and in the Australian Open final for his eighth Grand Slam title two months ago.

Murray fell to 8-18 against Djokovic.

"I'm not quite there with Novak yet, but I feel like I'm getting a little closer," Murray said with a chuckle. "I'm sorry I couldn't make more of a fight of it in the third set. I was trying. My legs were tired, and I couldn't quite finish hard enough."

Murray will climb from fourth to third in the new rankings, but he has lost 12 consecutive matches to his biggest rivals -- Djokovic, Rafael Nadal and Roger Federer -- since winning Wimbledon in 2013 by beating Djokovic in the final.

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Miami Open : Djokovic reaches fourth round

The defending champion, Novak Djokovic, defeated Belgium’s Steve Darcis 6-0, 7-5 to power into the last 16 of the Miami Open along with Japan’s Kei Nishikori, Canada’s Milos Raonic and the American John Isner.

The Serbian world No1, who just like last year won at Indian Wells before heading to South Florida, will face Alexandr Dolgopolov, a 7-5, 6-4 winner over Brazilian Thomaz Bellucci, in the fourth round.

Djokovic, who is seeking a fifth win at Miami, wrapped up a one-sided first set in 26 minutes but faced a sterner test in the second. Darcis broke to go ahead 5-4 but after the Serb levelled the set, he broke back and held on to secure the match.

“I managed to come back in the right moment,” Djokovic said.“I kind of elevated the intensity and started playing a little bit more with depth on the ball. He’s got a lot of variety, especially from his backhand side.

“So I was handling it really good for first 30 minutes, then started to make some unforced errors and started to play a little bit more neutral, a little bit slower, and he got into the match. I complicated my own life in the second set but in the end of the day, it’s a win.”

The fourth-seed Nishikori had even less trouble as he crushed Serbia’s Viktor Troicki 6-2, 6-2 in 63 minutes. Troicki, who needed medical treatment to his left side during the match, struggled to cope with Nishikori throughout with the 25-year-old converting five of his six break points.

“I was almost perfect on the court. It is so exciting that I am playing well here,” said Nishikori. “Maybe he was hurting a little bit but I was still putting him under pressure with my return.”

Raonic also moved into the fourth round after a hard-earned 6-1, 5-7, 7-6 (7-3) win over the French 31st seed Jérémy Chardy.

Raonic was broken when serving for the match at 5-4 in the second and then Chardy went on to force the third set.

“He started playing more freely and I sort of went the other way,” said Raonic. “He played well in the second set and I think he played better than I did in the third.”

Isner provided an upset as the 22nd seed won 7-6 (7-2), 6-2 over the ninth seeded Bulgarian Grigor Dimitrov while the Belgian 18th seed David Goffin beat Poland’s Jerzy Janowicz 6-4, 6-3 and Spain’s sixth seed David Ferrer got past Czech Lukas Rosol 6-4, 7-5.

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Rafael Nadal knocked out by Fernando Verdasco at Miami Open

Rafael Nadal was dumped out of the Miami Open on Sunday as he suffered a shock defeat to fellow Spaniard Fernando Verdasco.

The second seed is a four-time finalist in Florida but has never won the tournament and will have to wait at least another year after going down 6-4, 2-6, 6-3 to his countryman. Nadal fought back well after losing the first set and looked to have all the momentum but was broken to go 3-1 down in the third and Verdasco held his nerve to move into the last-16.

Elsewhere, Andy Murray cruised to a 6-3, 6-4 victory over Santiago Giraldo with the minimum of fuss. Murray continued the commanding form he displayed in seeing off Donald Young on Friday and his Colombian opponent, seeded 27th, had no answer.

There were, however, shock defeats for seventh seed Stan Wawrinka and Jo-Wilfried Tsonga, seeded 11th and playing in his first competition this year.

Wawrinka was edged out by Adrian Mannarino 7-6 (7-4) 7-6 (7-5), while Tsonga was sent packing after a 6-4 7-6 (7-4) defeat to French compatriot Gael Monfils. Fifteenth seed Kevin Anderson beat Leonardo Mayer 6-4, 6-4 while Austria’s Dominic Thiem came through 6-4, 6-3 against Jack Sock of the United States.

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Djokovic beats Federer to win his fourth Indian Wells Title

World No. 1 Novak Djokovic captured his 50th tour-level title on Sunday at the Indian Wells Tennis Garden as he lifted the BNP Paribas Open trophy for the fourth time with a 6-3, 6-7(5), 6-2 victory over Roger Federer.

The 27-year-old Djokovic is the 12th player in the Open Era to win 50 titles, eclipsing his coach, Boris Becker, on 49 trophies. He was later presented with a celebratory cake.

"I believe that I have to earn everything that I do, and this title today, as well," said Djokovic. "I appreciate every moment that I spend on the court. Of course the milestone that I achieved today was a great motivation for me prior to this event."

Having not lost a set en route to the championship match, the top-seeded Djokovic was taken the distance by Federer, who fought back from a set and a break down in the pair’s 38th meeting to create a thrilling climax to the final. But, having lost to Federer last month in the Dubai final, Djokovic was out for revenge and took it in style as he claimed victory in two hours and 17 minutes.

"It's great that I managed to win this match in the big tournament and to win it in a way that I felt like I was the better player on the court," said Djokovic. "That definitely will help. It's going to give me confidence, not just for future matches that I play against him, but just for Miami and the rest of the season."

Djokovic took advantage of an error-strewn first set from Federer. After being denied on a break point in the fourth game, the Serb earned three more opportunities at 0/40 on Federer’s serve in the sixth game. Federer rallied to deuce, but Djokovic created another chance and converted as Federer volleyed long.

Djokovic went on to seal the 32-minute opener, hitting just six unforced errors to Federer’s 13. The right-hander tellingly dropped just four points on serve.

Federer engineered his first break point of the match in the second game of the second set, but was thwarted and paid the price in the following game as Djokovic broke for a 2-1 lead, capitalizing when Federer smashed long and then put a forehand in the net. Federer had chances to recoup the break in the fourth game, but Djokovic was again too solid on serve.

But Federer’s mounting pressure on Djokovic ultimately told in the eighth game. Having saved a break point himself in the seventh game, the Swiss finally broke down Djokovic’s defenses, pushing the Serb back to draw the error and level at 4-4. It was to a standing ovation that Federer walked back to his chair after holding for 5-4.

Double faults cost Djokovic dearly in the subsequent tie-break. Twice the Serb led by a mini-break and twice he double faulted to hand it back. At 5-5 he committed his third double fault of the breaker and Federer made no mistake as he snatched the second set.

Djokovic didn’t let the disappointment last long, though. He came out focused at the start of the third set and immediately broke Federer for a 2-0 lead. But Federer hit back once again, converting his fifth break point of the game to get back to 2-1.

Federer could not keep up his momentum, though. Having seemed poise to level at 3-3 when serving at 40/15, the Swiss’ concentration wavered and Djokovic pounced. As Federer double faulted to lose four points in a row, Djokovic took a 4-2 lead.

There were to be no more comebacks from Federer as Djokovic reeled off the last two games to triumph before celebrating with his team courtside.

"I thought overall it was a great match from my side, very solid, great intensity, great commitment to hit every ball," said Djokovic. "I was very focused in the present moment. I thought I could have done the job earlier. Credit to Roger for fighting through. Showed again why he's a competitor and champion, somebody that never gives up. When we got to the third set obviously it was anybody's game.

"I managed to regroup. I managed to overcome that frustration of handing that tie-break to him with three double faults in crucial moments. But that's sport. Obviously under pressure sometimes these things happen and it's important to regroup, bounce back, and focus on the next one."

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US Open : Two big upsets on saturday semifinals

Instead of Novak Djokovic vs. Roger Federer for the U.S. Open title, first-time Grand Slam finalists Kei Nishikori and Marin Cilic will vie for the championship after a pair of semifinal surprises Saturday.

First, Japan's Nishikori became the first man from Asia to reach a major singles championship match by staying fresher than Djokovic in stifling heat and winning 6-4, 1-6, 7-6 (4), 6-3.

Then, Croatia's Cilic used every bit of his 6-foot-6 frame to deliver stinging serves and flat groundstrokes during a quick-as-can-be 6-3, 6-4, 6-4 victory over Federer.

"It's fairly simple, I think: Marin played great and I maybe didn't catch my best day," Federer said after his 1-hour, 45-minute loss. "That's pretty much it in a nutshell."

So much for No. 1-seeded Djokovic facing the No. 2-seeded Federer in a matchup between men who have combined to win 24 Grand Slam trophies. In what some will see as signaling a generational shift in tennis, Monday's final will be No. 10 Nishikori against No. 14 Cilic.

"That's going to be a sensational day for both of us," said Cilic, who at 25 is a year older than Nishikori.

For the first time in nearly a decade - since Marat Safin beat Lleyton Hewitt at the Australian Open in January 2005 - a major final will be contested without at least one of Federer, Djokovic or Rafael Nadal, who didn't attempt to defend his 2013 U.S. Open title because of a right wrist injury.

That trio won 34 of the past 38 Grand Slam trophies, including two months ago at Wimbledon, when Djokovic edged Federer in a five-set final.

"It's exciting for the game to have different faces from time to time," the 33-year-old Federer said. "It's definitely refreshing to some extent. It's big for Croatia; it's big for Japan."

Cilic, forced to sit out last year's U.S. Open during a doping suspension, is the first man from Croatia to get this far at a major since his coach, Goran Ivanisevic, won Wimbledon in 2001.

That's nothing compared to Japan's wait.

As it is, Nishikori was the first man from his country to reach a Grand Slam semifinal since 1933.

"Very happy to make history," said Nishikori, who moved to Florida at age 14.

He weaved his way through a pair of five-setters totaling more than 8 1/2 hours while No. 3 Stan Wawrinka and No. 5 Milos Raonic, yet appeared much more lively as the temperature neared 100 degrees than Djokovic, a guy widely considered as fit as they come.

"Just wasn't myself," Djokovic said.

Especially in the pivotal third-set tiebreaker. He missed a pair of backhands. He double-faulted. He missed a forehand, and another to end the set, then smacked a ball in anger. Up in the stands, Nishikori's coach, 1989 French Open champion Michael Chang, rose to his feet and pumped his fists.

Making Nishikori's performance all the more impressive is that as recently as a few weeks ago, he was swinging a racket while seated in practice, unable to run because he had a cyst removed from the bottom of his right foot in August.

"I didn't even know if I should come to New York," he said, "so I wasn't expecting nothing, actually."

Chang refused to let Nishikori think that way.

"He might not have prepared the best way he knows how. But just because you haven't done that doesn't mean that you don't give yourself the opportunity to come out and play," Chang said. "That's why I told him, 'You get past the first round, the second round, anything can happen.'"

This unforeseeable U.S. Open final shows that's true.

In the quarterfinals Thursday night, Federer dropped the first two sets against Gael Monfils and faced two match points, but escaped.

There would be no such comeback against Cilic, who worked to improve his game while sidelined after testing positive for a stimulant in May 2013. He said he ingested the substance accidentally via a glucose tablet; the International Tennis Federation sought a two-year ban but it eventually was reduced to four months.

Cilic had only played one previous major semifinal, at the 2010 Australian Open, while this was Federer's 36th. And Cilic came into the day with an 0-5 head-to-head record.

But this one went the other way. Wasn't even close.

Cilic hit serves at up to 132 mph and finished with 13 aces, including three in the final game. That he would serve effectively was no surprise. What truly stood out, though, was the way Cilic managed to hang with Federer in exchanges from the baseline.

"He played," Federer said, "with no fear."

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US Open : Federer rallies in an epic 5 setter to defeat Monfils

Roger Federer saved two match points while coming all the way back from a two-set deficit to beat Gael Monfils 4-6, 3-6, 6-4, 7-5, 6-2 Thursday night and reach the U.S. Open semifinals for the first time since 2011.

Frustrated by Monfils' unpredictable style, flummoxed by the swirling wind, and missing shots he normally makes, Federer twice was a single point from losing while down 5-4 in the fourth set.

But he got out of that hole, starting a five-game run that put the match in his control for the first time all evening. It helped that Monfils' quality of play dipped, including what wound up being a total of 10 double-faults.

This was the ninth time Federer has won a match after dropping the opening two sets.

The 20th-seeded Monfils was trying to reach his second career Grand Slam semifinal. Instead, Federer advanced to his 36th, ninth at Flushing Meadows. Five of Federer's record 17 major singles titles have come at the U.S. Open, but he exited in the quarterfinals in 2012, and the fourth round in 2013.

On Saturday, the second-seeded Federer will play 14th-seeded Marin Cilic of Croatia. The other semifinal will be No. 1 Novak Djokovic against No. 10 Kei Nishikori; their quarterfinal victories came Wednesday.

Cilic wasn't allowed to play in last year's U.S. Open, forced to the sideline by a four-month doping suspension that he says he didn't deserve. But Cilic reached the second Grand Slam semifinal of his career, and first since 2010, by beating sixth-seeded Tomas Berdych of the Czech Republic 6-2, 6-4, 7-6 (4) Thursday.

"I mean, it was a difficult period. I didn't know when I'm going to start back. But (it) was also (a) good period for me," Cilic said. "I matured a bit more and I was working, day after day."

His quarterfinal ended hours before the other began, and Cilic probably assumed he would wind up facing Federer next.

But that did not seem a certainty through the first 78 minutes of Federer-Monfils. That's how long it took Monfils to shake off a twisted ankle and build a two-set lead, assisted by Federer's 26 unforced errors in that span.

At 33, Federer was participating in his 43rd Grand Slam quarterfinal, while Monfils - who turned 28 on Monday - was in only his sixth. And Monfils had only won one of those, at the 2008 French Open, where he then lost to Federer in the semifinals, part of the Frenchman's 2-7 head-to-head record coming into Thursday.

The air was swirling in the cavernous arena, rippling the players' shirts and the giant American flag atop the stadium. In the early going, Monfils' whiplike forehand was able to cut through the wind.

As the clock was about to strike 11 p.m., Monfils held two match points at 5-4 in the fourth set, with Federer serving. On the first, Monfils had an opening for a backhand passing shot, but it flew long. On the second, Federer produced a forehand winner, and the crowd roared.

After Federer held there for 5-all, Monfils had a letdown, double-faulting twice in a row to get broken. Soon enough they were in the fifth set - which began with another break by Federer.

By then, he was on his way.

Make no mistake, though. This was not easy. The turnaround might not have been possible for Federer a year ago, when he was dealing with a bad back and trying to figure out whether he should switch to a larger racket head.

But now Federer, however old, is approaching his skills of old. He has made the finals at his previous four tournaments, the first such run by a 30-something since Ivan Lendl in 1990.

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US Open : Djokovic, Serena in semifinals

Through a pair of back-and-forth sets, Novak Djokovic and Andy Murray put on a display befitting a matchup of past U.S. Open champions.

They tracked down would-be winners and somehow got them back, prolonging points that involved 10 or 20 strokes or more, extended by Djokovic's slides and splits or Murray's gifted anticipation. After one 30-shot masterpiece on his way to victory, Djokovic raised his right fist, bellowed, "Come on!" and windmilled his arms to rile up the crowd.
Eventually, the physically demanding action proved too much for a fading Murray, and Djokovic pulled away to win 7-6 (1), 6-7 (1), 6-2, 6-4 and reach the tournament's semifinals for the eighth consecutive year.

"I knew coming into tonight's match that it's going to be tough, that he's going to go for his shots, and the more aggressive one would win it," the No. 1-ranked and No. 1-seeded Djokovic said. "I'm glad I managed to stay fit in the end and pull it through."

It took a while for him to push out front in a 3-hour, 32-minute match that ended after 1 a.m. Thursday.

Asked in an on-court interview to look ahead to facing 10th-seeded Kei Nishikori of Japan in Saturday's semifinals, Djokovic joked: "My thoughts are just directed to sleeping right now."

That drew guffaws from spectators, and he continued: "Or party. What do you say? Let's party. I think my coach right there would chase me with a little baseball bat if he saw me going to the city to party right now."

Nishikori became the first man from Japan to reach the U.S. Open semifinals since Ichiya Kumagae in 1918, outlasting third-seeded Stan Wawrinka of Switzerland 3-6, 7-5, 7-6 (7), 6-7 (5), 6-4.

Taking advantage as the eighth-seeded Murray's lively forehand dipped in quality and the Scot's service speeds slipped, Djokovic broke to go up 3-1 in the third set, then fended off a pair of break points in the next game. On the first, Murray sailed a backhand long to end a 28-stroke point, then leaned over and put a hand on his knee. On the second, he dumped a forehand into the net, then slammed his racket against his right thigh and yelled.

Soon, Murray was turning to his box to say, "Nothing in the legs." In the fourth set, a trainer came out to deliver a heat pack to Murray.

"I got stiff in my hips and my back. ... I don't know exactly why," said Murray, who beat Djokovic in the finals at the U.S. Open in 2012 and Wimbledon in 2013. "I didn't hurt anything. It was just, I think, fatigue."

He had back surgery a year ago, and dealt with cramping in his first-round match in New York last week. Murray looked fine since then, but he couldn't sustain his top form against the relentless Djokovic, who won the U.S. Open in 2011.

"He was fresher toward the end," Murray said. "I tried to hang in as best I could."

Until the third set, anyway, Djokovic-Murray was reminiscent -- in terms of pure entertainment value and setting, if not quite star power -- of the 2001 classic between Pete Sampras and Andre Agassi, which also was a quarterfinal, and also under the lights at Arthur Ashe Stadium. That one, won by Sampras, featured four tiebreakers, because neither man broke serve even once.

Djokovic and Murray combined for 11 service breaks, seven by Djokovic, including in the final game. They are both brilliant baseliners and retrievers, and it helps that they know each other -- and each other's patterns -- so well.

The opening set Wednesday was a 73-minute exercise in shape-shifting and shot making. In the tiebreaker, though, Murray lost his way: He double-faulted, put a return into the net, flubbed a backhand and, before he knew it, that set was gone.

Djokovic went up a break in the second set. Murray broke back. Djokovic took another of Murray's service games. And, yes, Murray again broke back, delivering a forehand winner that left an angered Djokovic swatting a spare ball off the serve-speed digital readout.

"We always," Djokovic said afterward, "push each other to the limits."

Serena overcomes early stumbles, advances to semis

NEW YORK -- Off to a bad-as-can-be start to her U.S. Open quarterfinal, losing serve twice while dropping the first three games, even Serena Williams found it hard to believe.

"I was thinking: 'I'm down two breaks?' " she said. "But I ... felt like, 'It's not the end of the world.' "

Quickly turning things around and taking complete control, Williams stretched her Flushing Meadows winning streak to 19 matches by eventually overpowering 11th-seeded Flavia Pennetta of Italy 6-3, 6-2 on Wednesday night.

"I don't feel like I was doing too much wrong," said Williams, a five-time champion at the U.S. Open, including the past two years. "So I said, `If she keeps it up, she absolutely deserves the win.' And I just tried to do a little better."

Simple as that, huh?

"Against her, you can't wait, you can't give her time, you can't fail to push her to her limits -- because if you do, she's a runaway train," Pennetta said.

Williams is bidding to become the first woman with three consecutive U.S. Open titles since Chris Evert won four in a row from 1975-78. The 32-year-old American also is trying to pull even with Evert and Martina Navratilova at 18 Grand Slam singles trophies.

Williams had not yet reached a major semifinal in 2014, bowing out in the fourth round at the Australian Open, the second at the French Open, and the third at Wimbledon. The last time she didn't reach at least one Grand Slam title match in a season was 2006, when she entered only two of the sport's top tournaments.

"Well, honestly, I've had a tough year in the majors and I've (lost to) some great players that weren't in the top 10," Williams said. "So you can never underestimate anyone."

On Friday, Williams will meet 17th-seeded Ekaterina Makarova, who beat 2012 and 2013 runner-up Victoria Azarenka 6-4, 6-2. The other women's semifinal will be No. 10 Caroline Wozniacki of Denmark against unseeded Peng Shuai of China.

One of these is not like the others: Williams is the only member of that quartet with a Grand Slam title. Wozniacki, the runner-up at the 2009 U.S. Open, is the only other woman left who has even participated in a major semifinal.

Earlier Wednesday, Kei Nishikori became the first man from Japan to reach the U.S. Open semifinals since Ichiya Kumagae in 1918, outlasting third-seeded Stan Wawrinka of Switzerland 3-6, 7-5, 7-6 (7), 6-7 (5), 6-4.

"I hope," Nishikori said, "it's big news in Japan."

That match went 4 hours, 15 minutes, and the 10th-seeded Nishikori managed to shake off any lingering exhaustion from his previous victory, which lasted 4:19 and ended at 2:26 a.m. Tuesday, equaling the latest finish in tournament history.

In the semifinals, Nishikori will play No. 1 Novak Djokovic or No. 8 Andy Murray, who faced each other Wednesday night after Williams' win ended.

On her second serve, she was called for a foot fault -- an unpleasant reminder of her meltdown after that very same ruling in the closing moments of a loss to Kim Clijsters in the 2009 U.S. Open semifinals.

This time, Williams was unfazed right afterward and wound up winning the point. But miscues by Williams led to an opening break, and after about 10 minutes of play, Pennetta -- a semifinalist in New York last year, but never a major finalist -- was ahead 3-0.

Williams began taking the ball inside the baseline as much as possible and finding the mark with her serves, putting more pressure on Pennetta while reeling off six straight games to take the first set.

Pennetta, who is into the doubles semifinals with partner Martina Hingis, might have been forgiven for giving up at that point. But she made things competitive again -- at least briefly.

Four aces in one game allowed her to lead 2-1 in the second set. That was pretty much that. Williams broke at love to go up 3-2, raising her left fist overhead to celebrate one particularly impressive shot, in which she raced back to the baseline to retrieve a lob, spun and smacked a forehand winner.

Williams has not had a particularly difficult path so far through an upset-filled women's field.

She hasn't dropped a set, but she also has not had to face No. 3 Petra Kvitova, No. 7 Eugenie Bouchard, No. 8 Ana Ivanovic, No. 16 Azarenka or No. 24 Sam Stosur -- the last player to beat Williams at the U.S. Open, in the 2011 final.

All were on Williams' half of the draw, and all lost to others.

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US Open : Djokovic vs Murray Preview

Two of the 'Big Four' meeting in the quarter-finals seems almost unheard of. This blockbuster encounter is a final in its own right, and it was in 2012, when Murray claimed his maiden Grand Slam in an epic five-hour encounter.

A final that included the equal longest US Open men’s final in history, and the longest tie break in US Open finals history, which Murray won 12-10.

The two have an intense rivalry, with Djokovic leading 12-8 overall, and Murray leading 5-4 at Grand Slams. Four of the nine meetings the two have had at Grand Slams were for the title, which they are tied at 2 apiece.

Djokovic has had a flawless tournament so far, not dropping a set or even playing in a tiebreaker. On the other hand, Murray has had an easy but flawed passage, dropping two sets along the way.

Murray has already matched his quarter-final effort from last year, and will be looking to claim his second US Open title; however, Djokovic looks to also grab his second US Open title, having made the final for the last four years running, but only managing the one victory.
The Serb and the Brit are considered as two of the best clinical finishers, and they have put on a fine show at the Open so far. With Djokovic leading the tournament in break points won with 25, followed closely in second by Murray with 23.

The winner will face either Stan Wawrinka or Kei Nishikori in the semi-finals.

Start: Thursday, Arthur Ashe Stadium, last match of the Wednesday’s evening session

Past Meetings

Miami, 2014 (Hard) Djokovic won7-5, 6-3

Wimbledon, 2013 (Grass) Murray won 6-4, 7-5, 6-4 (Final)

Australian Open, 2013 (Hard) Djokovic won 6-7(2), 7-6(3), 6-3, 6-2 (Final)

Stats

In the first four rounds Djokovic has dropped 28 games while Murray has dropped 58.

Murray has the tournaments highest first (96) and second (103) serve receiving numbers, compared to Djokovic’s 15 best first (63) serve, and 5 best second serve (90) receiving stats.

The two are the same age, with Murray born a week before Djokovic. Despite that Murray has only won 2 grand slams to Djokovic’s 7

Djokovic has the third highest ever career earnings at $65,419,345; double that of fifth placed Murray with $32,083,768.

Djokovic has 116 winners in the tournament so far, to Murray’s 175.

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