U.K.'s top tennis player Andy Murray won the Men's Singles at the China Open. This is his 40th win in his career and defeated Bulgarian player Gregor Dimitrov in two straight sets.
Murray was on his toes in the first set and quickly recovered from a weak first serve. He broke his opponent easily with good returns.
His opponent, Dimitrov, had a backhand that caught him off-balance when the Bulgarian set the score to 5-all and led to a triple match point.
"In that game, he started slicing a lot of backhands. Threw me off my rhythm a little bit. When he started doing that in the tiebreak, and in the game at 6-5, I changed a couple of things, which worked," he said.
The Scottish then rallied to victory as he took control of the tiebreaker. He admitted that he struggled with the cold temperature in the court.
"You know, considering the conditions were fairly cold, I was still serving over a hundred miles an hour on some second serves. I felt using a good variation on that shot, so I didn't give him a chance to really attack me there that was probably the thing that I did the best tonight," he said.
Murray's opponent, Dimitrov, said, "Yeah, I think today he served pretty good the second serve. He caught me off guard I think quite a few times. Especially in the body, he was serving a lot of serves. Sometimes he was just catching me off guard, meaning I wasn't sure which shot I wanted to hit."
Meanwhile, Murray was surprised to see that media zoomed in histactical notes written on a white sheet of paper in his bag.
"It's not for everyone else to see, otherwise I'd stick them up on the umpire's chair so everyone else could see it," he said.