The two-time champion of the tournament in Miami Andy Murray and the finalist in 2010 Tomas Berdych will meet in the first semifinal of the competition series "Masters 1000". They played at this stage of the Australian Open in January, when the Scot won in four sets.
The third in the scheme Murray beat the 21 year old Austrian Dominic Team with 3:6, 6:4, 6:1 for one hour and 44 minutes. The youngster realized his only chance to break in the first set, which was enough to take the set.
The Olympic champion found his rhythm and equalized sets, having achieved two breaks and conceded one. In the final part Andy was unstoppable. He lost only three points on his serve and scored two of his three break points.
"I expected a heavy match because he beat many good players this week. If you leave Dominique to dictate the play, he hits the ball very strong on both sides. I`m happy that he continues," said Murray.
Tomas Berdych, who is No8 in the scheme, beat for half an hour the Argentine Juan Monaco with
6:3, 6:4. The game was an equivalent. At the beginning of the first part there was an exchange of breakthroughs. The Czech reached a second for 5: 3, and then closed the set with a service game to zero. The next part has been developed almost identically. Berdych made a break for 5: 4 and then was a game to zero and victory.
So the 29 years old Tomas reached his 17th semi-final tournament of "Masters 1000". He will try to reach a second final in Miami, where for the title in 2010 he gave way to Andy Roddick.
Berdych leads with 7-6 wins against Andy Murray.
Today are the remaining two quarterfinals in the tournament. There the couples are Novak Djokovic - David Ferrer and Kei Nishikori - John Isner.
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