It was an ideal Friday afternoon for David Ferrer and Andy Murray. The two World Tour Finals hopefuls won their respective quarterfinal matches at the Valencia Open and also saw fellow London contender Milos Raonic lose to David Goffin in Basel. Grigor Dimitrov, a more distant London possibility, bowed out as well.
“It was very tough,” Murray admitted. “There were a lot of long games; long rallies. I started to read his serve a little bit better at the end of the second set. I was creating a lot of chances on his service games. I improved my serve throughout the match. That was really the difference, but it was extremely close. I just managed to get through.”
An all-around interesting day in Basel also saw what was likely Rafael Nadal’s final appearance in 2014. An out-of-sorts Spaniard got upset by 17-year-old wild card Borna Coric 6-2, 7-6(4). Nadal, who withdrew from the Paris Masters and is doubtful for London, lost the first five games of the match.
Coric inteview:
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