Andy Murray overcomes Novak Djokovic to reach the final – London Olympics
Great Britain’s Andy Murray created history, as he became first player from his country in the last 100 years to reach the final of Olympic Singles event by beating the world number two, Novak Djokovic of Serbia, in the semi-finals
of London Games on Friday.
Murray struck in the final game of both sets to win the contest 7-5, 7-5 and advance to the Gold Medal match. Last British player to move to the final of Olympics in singles category was Charles Dixon, who captured silver medal
at the 1912 Stockholm Games.
Both players started steadily in the latest match, as they held their serve in the opening 11 games to take the score to 6-5. With Djokovic serving at 30-30 in the 12th, Murray played aggressively, as he rushed to the
net and struck a volley winner to earn a set point. The British number one hit a forehand winner on the next one to seal it 7-5.
In the second set, Djokovic kept on holding his serves pretty easily. On the other hand, Murray faced break points in almost every single one of his games but he succeeded in puting away all of them to take the score to 6-5 in
his favour. Serving to stay in the contest at that moment, the Serbian lost first three points to go down 0-40, giving three match winning opportunities to Murray. The Brit capitalised on the first one to capture it 7-5.
Murray was extremely happy on advancing to the Gold Medal match. The world number four said, "It was an unbelievable atmosphere. It's amazing. I just wanted to try and win a medal, for the team, for the country and lastly for myself.
I'm so happy, I would love to win the gold medal."
Britain’s best player in the last many decades, Murray, acknowledged that he has been getting great support from the people of his country after Wimbledon.
He added, "Before the tournament started that was the goal [to] try and win a medal. It's been an amazing month and one of the best of my career. The support that I have had over the last month, after Wimbledon, I really needed
it."
Murray will lock horns with the top seed, Roger Federer of Switzerland, in the final. It will be a re-match of the Wimbledon title match that took place at the same venue just four weeks back, when Federer defeated the Brit in
four sets to shatter the latter’s dream of becoming first player from his country since 1936 to win Wimbledon crown.
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