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Andy Murray sends home Roger Federer at Australian Open
Andy Murray has finally beaten Roger Federer at a Grand Slam. U.S. Open champion Murray stayed in the hunt for a second consecutive major with a 6-4, 6-7 (5), 6-3, 6-7 (2), 6-2 win Friday over the 17-time major champion at the Australian Open.
Murray, who served for the match at 6-5 in the fourth set, will play defending champion and top-seeded Novak Djokovic, who was rarely troubled while beating David Ferrer in straight sets in just under 90 minutes on Thursday night, about 2 1/2 hours less than Friday’s semi-final. (MANAN VATSYAYANA/AFP/Getty Images)
“This was the most unbelievable day in my life,” qualifier Jerzy Janowicz (L) said after handing Andy Murray a 5-7, 7-6 (4), 6-2 upset at the Paris Masters on Thursday. The 21-year-old, seen here celebrating with his coach, Kim Tiilikainen, saved a match point en route to the win. (Photo: Dean Mouhtaropoulos/Getty Images)
Canada’s Milos Raonic stunned U.S. Open champion Andy Murray 6-3, 6-7 (5-7), 7-6 (7-4) to reach the final of the Japan Open on Saturday.
The 21-year-old from Thornhill, Ont., will face Kei Nishikori in Sunday’s final.
Raonic remains firmly in the chase for one of four remaining spots at the November year-end championships in London and would rise to provisional tenth for the eight-man field should he win the title in Tokyo.
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Andy Murray and the U.S. Open trophy took a tour of New York on Tuesday. Here is a brief account of his journey.
From clockwise:
- Andy and the trophy enjoy a laugh at the NBC Today Show
- Andy and the trophy share a romantic glass of wine at the British Consulate
- Andy and the trophy enjoy an intimate moment in the park with 200 of their closest photographer friends
- “Could you BE more excited by your U.S. Open victory?”
- The wire service says this is Andy and “his girlfriend Kim” but her Starbucks cup says “Julie” … And where is the trophy?
(Source: sports.nationalpost.com)
After reveling in a rousing Olympic summer of sporting success, Britain awoke Tuesday to another major milestone: Finally, after 76 years of waiting, the country has a male Grand Slam tennis champion.
Andy Murray’s five-set victory over Novak Djokovic in the U.S. Open final provided the perfect bookend to a summer in which a British rider won the Tour de France and British athletes scooped heaps of medals at the hugely successful London Olympics and Paralympics.
Nowhere was the impact of Murray’s win felt more deeply than in his Scottish hometown of Dunblane, a cathedral town made famous for a mass shooting in 1996, when a gunman killed 16 children and their teacher in an elementary school.
Things are getting craaaaazy at the U.S. Open final: Andy Murray leads Novak Djokovic after the first set, and Djokovic almost dropped his racquet, as you can see. Who is your pick?
Great Scots! It’s Andy Murray and Sean Connery at the U.S. Open!
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Bruce Arthur: What a weekend for Britain. And, for that matter, for Andy Murray.
Two weeks after losing to Roger Federer at Wimbledon — two weeks after that halting, emotion-choked speech at Centre Court in which he managed to warble out, “I’m getting closer” — Andy Murray, pride of Scotland, got another chance. With it, he simply destroyed a dispirited, out-of-joint Federer, 6-2, 6-1, 6-4.
Britain won six gold medals and a silver on Saturday, one after another, for the most glorious sporting day the country has seen since the 1908 Olympics. Murray, who would play for mixed doubles gold with Laura Robson later in the day, had a chance to make it a golden weekend. He did.
Tears of joy and sadness: There were going to be tears at the end of this Wimbledon men’s final, because both Roger Federer and Andy Murray have some precedent there.
In the end, they came from the winner and the runner-up.
Federer’s tears began almost before he fell to the court in triumph, tears of joy and relief as he won his seventh career title at Wimbledon, the 17th major of his career, the first in 2 1/2 years.
The seventh title ties him with his idol Pete Sampras. And this time, Federer’s twin daughters Myla and Charlene were on hand for the triumph.
Photos: Stefan Wermuth/Reuters, Paul Gilham/Pool/Reuters
BALL! Andy Murray becomes the first British male tennis player to make the Wimbledon final in 74 years. He is happy about it, as you can tell.
