Berdych Defeats Red-hot Murray

Andy Murray's brilliant fall came crashing down around his ears in the quarterfinals of the Paris Indoors Masters; he was beaten by Tomas Berdych, 4-6, 7-6 (4), 6-4, in a mess of a three-hour and 12-minute match in which the two players managed to convert just four of a combined 31 break points. The loss ended Murray's 17-match winning streak, but it was still just his second loss since mid-August. That break-point statistic shows both how close the match was on the scoring basis—when Murray was broken to 4-5 in the third, in what would be the last and most significant break of the match, each man had won exactly 111 points; Berdych ultimately ended up with just three more, at 122—and also how absurd it is to do micro-analysis of the kind that starts with, In the fourth game of the third set, Berdych faced yet another blah-blah-blah.

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