Andy Murray was denied an ideal finish to his chic week in Doha as he suffered a straight-sets defeat to Daniil Medvedev within the Qatar Open last on Saturday. 

The Russian made it back-to-back tour victories as he adopted up success in Rotterdam with a 6-4 6-4 victory for his seventeenth profession ATP title, extending his profitable run to 9-0 for the reason that Australian Open within the course of.

Murray was, in the meantime, made to attend for a primary ATP title since October 2019 having made it to his first Tour last since final June in Stuttgart.

“It was an unimaginable week, did not end how I needed however had some superb matches, created nice recollections and it was implausible to be again within the last in opposition to an unimaginable participant,” Murray stated in his on-court interview on the Amazon Prime broadcast.

“Daniil is one in all my favorite gamers to observe and probably the greatest on the tour. It is nice for me to get that chance to play anyone on that stage, some issues to work on. I am pleased with my week.”

Medvedev took management of the competition early as two breaks of serve guided him to a 4-1 benefit, earlier than Murray fought again to maneuver inside 4-3 just for the third seed to revive his composure to see out the set.

Murray threatened one other thriller when he wrestled momentum from Medvedev within the second to guide 4-3, solely to relinquish a 40-0 lead at 4-4 in what would show a defining break for his opponent.

It paved the way in which for Medvedev to serve out for match, the 27-year-old ending it in model with a beautifully-weighted lob upon Murray’s method to the web.

“I might wish to say how a lot I appreciated it right now enjoying Andy,” stated Medvedev in his on-court interview. “Yesterday I used to be within the fitness center figuring out and began to the do the final workouts when it was 5-4 40-0, 25 minutes later he was nonetheless on the tie-break and gained it, loopy.

“At this time once I had a match level I used to be like ‘oh my god I’ve a match level in opposition to Andy in Doha, that is not signal’, however I needed to have a match level to win. I knew it wasn’t over till the final level with him.”

Murray had produced acquainted heroics on Friday when he rescued 5 match factors to beat Jiri Lehecka, following on from spectacular victories over Alexandre Muller, Alexander Zverev and Lorenzo Sonego earlier within the week.