Australian Open: Murray beats Berrettini in five sets; Jabeur and Djokovic in action – live
“Amazing win. To stay with in that fifth set, when he was playing and serving as well as he was, was a great mental effort. Physically, obviously at the end, both of us are tired and I have really put a lot of work in the last three months. I have been playing well in practice. But in the last couple of years, I’ve lost a few of these matches in slams … that one could have got away from me, but I think all the work I’ve put in these last few months paid off there at the end.
“I stayed remarkably calm at the end. Obviously I got a really good start in the tiebreak, which helped me … I felt like in the [final-set tiebreak] rallies I took the initiative when I could … I think I served quite smart throughout the match. “He hit a pretty bad shot on the match point. I was lucky there, for sure. But I served smart, I played every point, and thankfully it was enough. I don’t know what the final points total was. But through the match it must have been unbelievably close. There must have only been one or two points in it.”
Lightheartedly, Tim Henman asks Murray if he should be diving on a hard court with a metal hip, referring to one specific volley. “I’ll probably find out tonight or tomorrow whether that was the right move,” Murray says. “I was so close to the finish line there … it feels all right, just now, but let’s see in a few hours.”regarding the closeness of points won: 166 to him, 161 to Berrettini.
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