Week 12 - ATP Masters 1000 - Miami, USA (Hard)

johnnylad · Tennis legend

RE: Week 12 - ATP Masters 1000 - Miami, USA (Hard)

DF · Tennis legend

Tie break time

RJA · Hall of fame

Balls of steal from Murray to save that match point.

murrayman650 · ATP level

Tiebreak

(Ferrer to serve first)

0 - 1*

0 - 2*

0* - 3

0* - 4

1 - 4*

1 - 5*

1* - 6

1 - 7

Murray GSM 2-6 6-4 7-6

World no 2*

Bob in Spain · Tennis legend

Never in doubt wink

Helen40 · Grand Slam Champion

Woohoo! Robbo next.

paulisi · Tennis legend

How tense was that match - neither player deserved to lose.

DF · Tennis legend

Despite everything he won!

Bob in Spain · Tennis legend

So Andy "Iron Man" Murray moves back to Nº2 in the world.

Many congrats.

RJA · Hall of fame

Well I won't recant my opinion that this was an absolutely awful quality match but well done to Andy for struggling through to victory.

steven · Tennis legend

Andy's ability to edge these tough matches when he's really not at his best is becoming astonishing - that looked as gruelling as some of the 5-setters in slams!

Funny to think that this, his 2nd Miami title, is his first Masters title since his only previous Masters Final against Ferrer in Shanghai a year and a half ago.

philwrig · Hall of fame

Probably the ugliest final I have ever watched, such a contrast to yesterday's women's final, but hey a wins a win, so congrats Andy, now world number 2 and set to stay there for a quite a while this time hopefully.

indiana · Tennis legend

Didn't see it, just followed some of the scoring and listened to the final tiebreak. The bit I listened to went well !

Looking at the serving stats, Andy certainly hasn't had a good day there, which clearly must have contributed to the number of breaks and his overall struggles. So in that regard he has done well to get the win despite his serve on the day.

Cleatly difficult to gauge the overall quality given the rather conflicting comments here.

But I would certainly assume Andy has played rather better. But that's OK for me at this stage of the year. I didn't expect that much from Indian Wells but better from Miami. And seem to have got that and Andy is up to WR 2 and race no 2 ( 360 points behind Djokovic in that ).

Clearly planning on now some good clay court prep so hppefully that can go well with much lattitude for improvement on last year. Nadal having now dropped nearly 700 points behind Ferrer in the rankings could be a bit of a joker in the pack as someone's potential QF opponent when he and the rest of the top 5 are all competing.

Anyway, I worried a bit about Andy's big break after the Aussie Open, but he has come out of IW and Miami pretty well and I am fairly optmistic about the coming months.

Madeline · Admin:Moderator + Tennis Legend

I did watch the match, along with my daughter who is home for Easter, but have only just managed to wrest the computer from her!

We both thought the quality of the tennis was poor but the drama was intense. When Ferrer leveled the 3rd set we really didn't think Andy would make it - but, though fretful and looking absolutely knackered (as was Duracell Dave), he came good in the tiebreak. Well done to him. Awaiting the clay season with interest - and trepidation.

Maybe I should bring back my old signature - ""Warning - watching Andy Murray matches can be dangerous for your health"!

RJA · Hall of fame

Okay, I know that some here feel that I have been overly negative about Andy this year, although I contest that I am only judging him be the standards that he has set by aiming to be world number one. Therefore I thought that I would make an unambiguously positive post.

Andy has now won 9 Masters Series events and that takes him to joint 11th in the all time table. He has now moved ahead of Muster, Edberg and Wilander. This is clearly a significant achievement and deserves considerable praise so well done Andy. It is also worth noting that every player ahead of him on that list won at least 6 Grand Slam titles.