Saturday, January 26, 2013

Men's Final Preview

We have finally eached the final of the Austrailian open 2013 , it has been high action of top quality tennis for the past 2 weeks we have seen many brilliant encounters happen .
The final will be featuring the finalist from the Us open 2012 , Andy Murray vs Novak Djokovic .Djokovic leads the head to head record 10-7 , the Scot and the Serbian met 7 times last years and novak had just one win extra than murray .
Murray has an easy run into the final execpt the 5 setter against Roger in the semis .
Novak has hard to work hard for his to go into the final . His 5 hour epic 4th round against Wawrinka almost knocked him out of the tournament in the early stages . Fitness concern's for Novak  ? Well it was a concern for him at all , it was like a gift for him .!His semi final match against David Ferrer was an absolute ripper . He won the Spainard 6-2 6-2 6-1 in just 89 minutes .Djokovic was in tremendous form there was nothing all  David Ferrer could do against him .
Now lets look at the performances of both the players en route to the finals
Djokovic
R1-Paul-Henri Mathieu (FRA) 6-2 6-4 7-5
R2-Ryan Harrison (USA) 6-1 6-2 6-3
R3-Radek Stepanek (CZE) 6-4 6-3 7-5
R4-Stanislas Wawrinka (SUI ) 1-6 7-5 6-4 6-7 12-10
Q-Tomas Berdych (CZE) 6-1 4-6 6-1 6-4 
Semis-David Ferrer (ESP) 6-2 6-2 6-1

Murray 
R1-Robin Haase (NED) 6-3 6-1 6-3
R2-Joao Sousa (POR) 6-2 6-2 6-4
R3-Ricardas Berankis (LTU)  6-3 6-4 7-5
R4-Gilles Simon (FRA)  6-3 6-1 6-3
Q-Jeremy Chardy (FRA) 6-4 6-1 6-2
Semis- Roger Federer (SUI ) 6-4 6-7 6-3 6-7 6-2

Whats at Stake  ?
Novak Djokovic is bidding to be the first man in the open era to win 3 straight Austrialian open titles .

Andy Murray is bidding to be the first time grand slam champion to  win the next slam at once , he won the Us open 2012 defeating Novak  . 

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