China Open | Andy Murray lifts trophy; Radwanska wins 20th WTA title
World No.2 Andy Murray hardly broke a sweat in his match against Bulgarian Grigor Dimitrov to win the final of the China Open on Sunday for his fifth title of the season. In the women’s event, Agnieszka Radwanska defeated Johanna Konta to lift her second China Open title in five years.
Murray made an immediate head-start in the final breaking Dimitrov in his very first service
Murray held his nerve in the tiebreak to win the second set 7-6(2) and subsequently clinch the match.
In the men’s doubles final played earlier, Rafael Nadal and his partner, Pablo Carreno Busta, won their first doubles title together after defeating the American-Australian pair of Jack Sock and Bernard Tomic 6-7(6), 6-2, 10-8 in a hard-fought encounter.
Meanwhile, in the women’s final, world number three Agnieszka Radwanska cruised to the title after overpowering her opponent, Johanna Konta, in straight sets. The Polish star, who did not drop a single set over the course of the tournament, raced to a 6-4, 6-2 win over the 11th seed to clinch her second China Open title in five years and her 20th WTA career title.
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