Andy Murray qualified for Miami final

Top brilliant Murray made a stunning show as he hit Argentina’s Juan Martin Del Potro to qualify in the final of the Sony Ericsson Open in Miami. The Briton sealed an excellent 6-1 5-7 6-2 triumph and now in Sunday final he will fight against Novak Djokovic, after the Serb earlier beat Roger Federer 3-6 6-2 6-3.

An annoyed Federer shattered his racquet as the match went by. Djokovic’s triumph seems that Murray cannot pass him as the world number three in next week’s rankings.

But the Scot will get huge assurance from one more well presentation as he saw off Del Potro in front of a partisan throng in Friday’s evening session. The Scot, 21, had won both his previous matches against Del Potro and started magnificently, while his opponent appeared to be suffering from a draining semi-final win over top seed Rafael Nadal.

Murray had prepared speedy progress into the last four and looked sharp-edged, breaking two times as he raced into a 5-0 lead and quickly took the set. It was as a lot a lack of attention from Murray as anything Del Potro did that saw the Briton drop serve early in the second; having led 40-0, but Murray got the break back straight away and looked on course for the win.

But the longer Del Potro, 20, stayed on serve the more his confidence grew, and he levelled the match with a superb game at 6-5 to send the crowd wild. The impetus looked to be with the seventh seed going into the decider as he saved an early break point but Murray left remarkably paying attention and got the break in game five.

Through another smash point waiting at 4-2, Murray had to stay while Del Potro went to his chair for treatment to his leg, but the British number one transformed his second chance of the game and served out the match comfortably.

Murray said afterwards, “There were many highs in the game. I think I only played one or two bad games”. The first set was great. I can only hope in the future I can play close to that level. In the first set I mixed it up a bit and kept him moving around. I knew he would be tired after the Nadal game so that’s what I tried to do.”

Second seed Federer was annoying to achieve his first title at the elite Masters 1000 level since Cincinnati in August, 2007, and the Swiss started Friday’s first semi-final well in blustery conditions.