andy murray beat jo - wilfried tsonga in wimbledon finals.
andy murray beat jo - wilfried tsonga in wimbledon finals.
who did andy murray beat in wimbledon finals?
jo - wilfried tsonga
novak djokovic collected his 60th career title at the qatar exxonmobil open, defeating nadal in two sets in a final that lasted 73 minutes. djokovic then proceeded to win his sixth australian open. on his road to his open era record sixth title in melbourne, he defeated roger federer in four sets in the semi-finals, and in a rematch of the 2015 final, he defeated andy murray, in three straight sets. at the dubai tennis championships, he retired against feliciano lópez in the quarterfinals due to a eye infection. he quickly rebounded by winning back-to-back title, collecting his fifth indian wells masters title, defeating milos raonic in the final and the miami open for the third consecutive year defeating kei nishikori. his finals win in miami saw djokovic surpass roger federer to become the all-time leading prize money winner on the atp tour with career earnings of $98.2 million. after an early round exit to jiri vesely at the monte carlo masters, djokovic quickly bounced back by winning the madrid open for the second time in his career with a three set victory over murray. they met again at the following event at the rome masters final one week later with murray the victor, despite a sluggish performance. djokovic defeated andy murray in the final of the french open in four sets, making him the reigning champion of all four major tournaments, a historic feat the media dubbed the "nole slam." with his french open triumph, djokovic became the 8th player in history (and the second oldest) to achieve a career grand slam. however, at wimbledon, his major win streak came to an end in the third-round when he lost to american sam querrey in four sets. it was his earliest exit in a grand slam since the 2009 french open.
2016 atp world tour finals
at wimbledon, murray made it through his first three matches without losing a set, his first round match, in which he defeated german benjamin becker, whom he had defeated at queen's club just weeks earlier, took murray's grand slam match wins total to 107, surpassing fred perry's total, making murray the british player with most all time match wins at grand slam tournaments. murray then beat lu yen-hsun of chinese taipei in round two, and spanish 32nd seed tommy robredo in the third, against whom murray hadn't played since 2009. in the fourth round match murray beat russian mikhail youzhny in straight sets despite going 5-2 down in the second set (which, like the previous round, was also the first meeting between the two since 2009). in the quarterfinals, murray met left-hander fernando verdasco of spain, who had beaten murray in their previous grand slam meeting. verdasco won the first two sets, before murray raised his level of play considerably, eventually coming through to win in five sets and reach his fifth consecutive wimbledon semifinal, tying him with john mcenroe in fourth place for most consecutive semifinals at wimbledon behind roger federer, jimmy connors and björn borg. murray faced jerzy janowicz of poland in the semifinals, against whom murray lost in the 2012 paris masters. despite dropping the opening set in a tiebreak, the scot eventually prevailed in four to set up a fourth grand slam final against novak djokovic, the second meeting between the two at sw19, and the first at the championships. murray defeated djokovic in straight sets (6-4, 7-5, 6-4) to become the first british man to win wimbledon since 1936, the first scot of either sex to win a wimbledon singles title since 1896, as well as becoming the 7th man in the open era to complete the queen's/wimbledon double. with the win, murray extended his winning streak on grass to 18 matches, his previous loss coming at the 2012 wimbledon final.
2013 andy murray tennis season