Murray won against his Bulgarian opponent in Beijing winning 6-4, 7-6 and (7-2).<\/p>\n
World number 20 Dimitrov succeeded through to the final after semi-final opponent Milos Raonic withdrew after an ankle injury.<\/p>\n
Murray eventually broke his opponent\u2019s serve in the opening game and saved a break point at 3-2. Dimitriov came back for the second set breaking as Murray served for the match at 5-4. In the tie-break Murray got the mini-break with the first point and despite Dimitriov fighting back, Murray won six of the seven points to win.<\/p>\n
Murray said, \u201cIt\u2019s been the most consistent year of my career, getting to the latter stages of most of the events I have played.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt was a great week for me. Today\u2019s match was a very high-level match. Grigor fought right to the end and made it extremely tough to finish it in two sets.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s been an excellent week and I\u2019m very happy with the way that I have played the last couple of matches. I will look forward to Shanghai now.\u201d<\/p>\n
Murray sets his sights on replacing Novak Djokovic as the top ranked player in the world.<\/p>\n
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Murray won against his Bulgarian opponent in Beijing winning 6-4, 7-6 and (7-2). World number 20 Dimitrov succeeded through to the final after semi-final opponent Milos Raonic withdrew after an ankle injury. Murray eventually broke his opponent\u2019s serve in the opening game and saved a break point at 3-2. Dimitriov came back for the second […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":19,"featured_media":18192,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27,112],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18191","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sport","category-top-stories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18191","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/19"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18191"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18191\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18192"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18191"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18191"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18191"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}