Andy Murray destroyed Kazakhstan’s Andrey Golubev 6-1 6-1 in under an hour to retain his St Petersburg Open title and continue his sensational end of season form

Murray has lost 2 matches in his last 25, those where the US Open final to Roger Federer and 1st round loss at the Olympics and his streak includes three titles now after adding St Petersburg to the two masters title already won.

The final today was for the most part was a no-contest, Murray broke serve in the fourth and sixth games of the opening set and broke three more times in the second set to seal victory over the 150th ranked Golubev.

Murray’s route to the final was little more trickier than than final itself, he beat Serbia’s Victor Troicki (ranked 51) and Latvia’s Ernests Gulbis (ranked 50th) in the opening rounds before dispatching Serbia’s Janko Tipsarevic (ranked 48th) in the quarters and world number 15 Fernando Verdasco in the semi finals, all without dropping a set.

After the match Murray said,

I’m happy to win and to defend my title here…Andrey performed very well this week and, I believe, has a good chance to become a top-ranked professional.

Andy Murray is the new Madrid Masters champion after beating Giles Simon in the final of the indoor event 6-4 7-6 (8-6).

The match was no classic and was littered with errors from both players, but Murray showed his class and maturity to win the first set with a single break in the 6th game and despite Simon upping his game in the second, the Scot was still able to win the second tie break after saving one set point on Simon’s serve.

Murray has now won the last two master series events and becomes the first ever player to win Cincinnati and Madrid back to back. He will be competing to win three in a row in the last masters event of the year in Paris next month. In fact Murray has now become the most successful British male player of the last 70 years becoming the first ever British player to win two master events in their career.

Although Murray played well below his best today, the one part of his game that did hold up throughout the entire week and the entire match today was his serve. He did’nt give up one break in the whole match today and served a very high 67% first serves.

After the match Murray said

I planned to play a little bit better than that from the back of the court, Both of us made a lot of mistakes but both of us were a little bit tired from yesterday, him probably more than me. But my serve this week has been awesome and that’s the reason why I won the tournament. I don’t think he had a break point in the whole match.

Andy will now move on to St Petersburg next week where he will be defending the title he won last year.