Andy Murray continued his dominance of the start of the 2009 tennis season with a straight forward straight sets victory over world number 3 Novak Djokovic and claim the Miami masters title.

Murray beat Djokovic 6-2 7-5 in 103 minutes.

This is arguably the biggest title of his Murray’s career to date, the Sony Ericsson Open is affectionately known as the “Fifth Slam” attracting all of the top players every year.

Miami is Murray third Masters title, following wins in Cincinnati and Madrid last year.

Murray dominated the first set in searing heat winning the first set in quick time. The second set proved more tricky and was seemingly going the way of Djokovic with Murray trailing 5-2, but the Scot hut back to win the last 5 games and claim the title.

After his win Murray spoke in front of the capacity crowd,

“The conditions here are so tough – I know sitting there is difficult but running around is pretty tricky too….He started to come to the net a lot more and I lost my timing a little bit and I started to find it a little bit difficult towards the end of the second set…..I’m training very hard to try and do that (win a slam) but there are so many great players just now – Novak, Rafa, Roger – and they’ve been dominating the Slams for the last few years, It would be nice to get in there and take one.”

Andy now heads back to Europe for the start of the clay-court season and will new his partership with Alex Coretja as he trys to come to grips with the red stuff.

Nikolay Davydenko and Rafael Nadal both had straight set semi final wins at the Sony Ericsson Open in Miami to set up their first ever final meeting.

Nikolay Davydenko beat American Andy Roddick 7-6(7-5) 6-2. At one point during the first set tie break Roddick looked set to win the first set, when serving up 4-3 with a mini-break. Davydenko though turned the match around and won the next points on the Roddick serve and went on to win the set. Roddick never recovered from that and went down easily in the second set.

Roddick failed to hit his best form that seen him defeat Roger Federer in the quarter finals, it was only the big Americans second win in 17 attempts over the Federer.

In an almost replica scoreline Rafael Nadal was victorious 7-6(7-5) 6-2 over Czech Tomas Berdych.

The final tomorrow will be the third meeting of these two, with Nadal winning both the previous meetings. Both matches have been closely fought contests, going the full distance, the most recent last year at the Rome Masters which was played on Nadal’s favorite surface clay with the Spaniard winning 7-6 6-7 6-4.

In 2006 they met on hard courts (similar to the surface they will play on tomorrow) in the round robin match of the tennis masters cup, Nadal winning 5-7 6-4 6-4.

Andy Murray threw away two match points as he crashed out to Mario Ancic at the Sony Ericsson Open in Miami.

After being a set down he fought back in the second to level it all up at 1 set a piece, both players winning their respective sets 6-2. The third set was much tighter and went all the way to a tie break.

Murray in a winning position at 6-4 crumbled, Ancic saved the first match point on his own serve before Murray at 6-5 serving for the match, threw in a bottle-crashing double fault. World number 63 Ancic then went to win the breaker 9-7 to wrap up a 3 set victory 6-2 2-6 7-6(9-7).

After the match Murray said,

That was just a bad serve……It was the first time on tour that I’ve lost a match when I’ve had match points so that’s pretty disappointing.

This was the second masters event of the year and the second poor masters performance by Andy Murray. The month of March 2008 will be one that Andy Murray will want to forget. It started so well with a first round victory against Roger Federer in Dubai, since then he has struggled with form and only managed three victories since that win, losing to Nikolay Davydenko, Tommy Hass and today Mario Ancic.