Injured Murray, who has not played competitive tennis since November, sometimes found himself in the meeting with Zverev back to the road-winning game that took him to three Grand Slam titles.
- It was a good achievement to win after not playing for a while, Murray himself said afterwards.
In the second set, Zverev fought back and won 7-6 and in the third it was mostly a question of who made the least mistakes. Both players had problems with the game in different periods. The German had a chance to serve the match at the position 5-4 but got a rubber arm on the serve. He accounted for five double errors when Murray won three straight games and the last set 7-5.