Andy Murray walked on to the court today to defend his title, and be one of the first ATP champions of 2013. Grigor
Dimitrov followed Andy Murray to prove that he is the future stalwart, and show
he did.
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Grigor Dimitrov showed today why he has
been dubbed as 'baby Fededer', as he went out all firing, breaking Murray early
on and holding his serve easily to give Murray a scare and run for his money.
Dimitrov's nerves got the better of him, as he served for the first set at 5-3, Murray broke him to get the set back on serve. Murray held his serve to make
it 5 all in the first set. Dimitrov held his own to force Murray to serve to
stay in the set again. Dimitrov got another chance as he got to the set point,
with Murray serving to stay in the set at 6-5. Murray served a double fault to
hand Dimitrov the set point, but quickly erased it with an ace on the next
point and forced the tie-break. Dimitrov completely faded away in the tie-break
as he got baggled in the tie-break. Dimitrov's backhand which had been very
solid through-out the first set, cost him the tie-break as he made 4 unforced
errors in the tie-break.
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With the first set in Murray's pocket, it
seemed like Dimitorv will melt down and just let the match go, but he just did
not do that, as he went on to break Murray at 3 all to move ahead, but from
then on, it was all Murray. Dimitrov started his serve nicely racing to a 30-0
lead, but Murray hit some beautiful shots to win the next four points and bring
the set back to serve. It was all one way traffic from then on as Murray held
and broke Dimitrov to defend his Brisbane International title.
Murray had a similar start to his 2012
campaign, when he won Brisbane International but went on to lose in the epic
encounter against Novak Djokovic in the semi-finals of Australian Open. What
will the Brisbane title bring for Murray this year? Let us wait and watch.
As for Grigor Dimitrov, he had all the
chances in the world to win this match, he served for the first set, had a set
point afterwards but just could not close it out. Once again in the 2nd set,
Dimitrov broke Murray to go up, but just like the first set, he could not
retain the advantage and went down in straight sets.
However, the match showed
us, what Dimitrov is capable of doing, and that if he holds his head together
he can play with the top players at the top level. What future holds for
Dimitrov, only time will tell us, but for now on, the future does look bright
for the 21 year old Bulgarian.
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