Tightly contested
final at the 2013 Sony Open ultimately resulted in the ninth ATP World
Tour Masters 1000 title for Andy Murray, as the 25-year-old knocked off
No. 3 seeded David Ferrer, 2-6, 6-4, 7-6(1), in Miami, Fla. Murray took
home $719,160 victory at Crandon Park.
Second-seeded Murray became
the first player in tournament history to save a match point in the
championship. Ferrer was just seconds away from winning, up 6-5 in the
third set, but Murray fought back and eventually put the two in a
tiebreak. Sunday marked his second title in Miami, making Murray the
seventh player to win multiple times here. He took home his other
first-place trophy here in 2009. Murray does well on Hard Courts.
Ferrer pocketed $350,970 for
finishing as the runner-up. Surely his championship point late in the
third set will dwell on him. The Spaniard is now 21-5 in 2013.
Maria
Sharapova lost to Serena Williams, 4-6, 6-3, 6-0 on Saturday, winning her record-setting sixth
title in Miami. The top-ranked women's player in the world took home
$724,000 for her efforts. Sharapova suffered her fifth championship
defeat at Key Biscayne, earning $353,200 in the loss. That makes three
consecutive years of losing in the final for the Russian.
Team of Aisam-Ul-Haq Qureshi and
Jean-Julien Rojer won $235,640 for their men's doubles title after
taking down Mariusz Fyrstenberg and Marcin Matkowski, 6-4, 6-1. In
women's doubles, Nadia Petrova and Katarina Srebotnik ousted Lisa
Raymond and Laura Robson, 6-1, 7-6(2), for a $245,000 pay day. Not bad pay days for the players in Key Biscayne, FL. Thanks for reading.
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