Novak Djokovic beat Andy Murray 5-7, 7-6(11), 6-3 in the Shanghai final, 2012 on hard court
It was Djokovic's first title at the event, while Murray was going for his third in a row. The two had recently played the US Open final (where Murray won his first Slam) and would shortly afterwards play the 2013 Australian Open final (where Djokovic would win)
Djokovic won 119 points, Murray 113
Serve Stats
Djokovic...
- 1st serve percentage (62/104) 60%
- 1st serve points won (43/62) 69%
- 2nd serve points won (20/42) 48%
- Aces 3
- Double Faults 4
- Unreturned Serve Percentage (29/104) 28%
Murray...
- 1st serve percentage (71/128) 55%
- 1st serve points won (46/71) 65%
- 2nd serve points won (26/57) 46%
- Aces 4, Service Winners 1
- Double Faults 3
- Unreturned Serve Percentage (32/128) 25%
Serve Patterns
Djokovic served...
- to FH 43%
- to BH 41%
- to Body 16%
Murray served...
- to FH 46%
- to BH 52%
- to Body 2%
Return Stats
Djokovic made...
- 93 (49 FH, 44 BH), including 1 runaround FH
- 3 Winners (3 BH)
- 27 Errors, comprising...
- 12 Unforced (7 FH, 5 BH)
- 15 Forced (4 FH, 11 BH)
- Return Rate (93/125) 74%
Murray made...
- 71 (32 FH, 39 BH)
- 2 Winners (1 FH, 1 BH)
- 26 Errors, comprising...
- 15 Unforced (10 FH, 5 BH)
- 11 Forced (4 FH, 7 BH)
- Return Rate (71/100) 71%
Break Points
Djokovic 6/13 (7 games)
Murray 5/6 (5 game)
Winners (including returns, excluding serves)
Djokovic 27 (10 FH, 7 BH, 4 FHV, 2 BHV, 4 OH)
Murray 22 (11 FH, 6 BH, 1 FHV, 1 BH1/2V, 2 OH)
Djokovic's FHs - 1 cc, 5 inside-out, 3 inside-in and 1 inside-in/cc
- BHs - 2 cc (1 return), 2 dtl, 2 inside-out returns and 1 drop shot
- 3 FHVs were swinging shots (1 non-net shot)
- 2 OHs were on bounce (1 from baseline) and 1 was a non-net shot (taken on full closer to baseline than service line)
Murray's FHs - 3 cc (1 return, 1 pass), 1 dtl, 4 inside-out, 1 inside-in, 1 inside-in/cc and 1 running-down-drop-shot dtl at net net chord dribbler
- BHs - 4 cc (1 return, 1 pass), 1 inside-out and 1 drop shot
- 1 BHV can reasonably be called a BHOH
- 1 OH was on the bounce
Errors (excluding serves and returns)
Djokovic 55
- 29 Unforced (13 FH, 13 BH, 3 FHV)... with 2 non-net swinging FHVs
- 26 Forced (11 FH, 12 BH, 1 FHV, 1 BHV, 1 Tweener)... with 1 FH running-down-drop-shot at net
- Unforced Error Forcefulness Index 46.9
Murray 60
- 47 Unforced (22 FH, 24 BH, 1 Challenge)
- 13 Forced (8 FH, 4 BH, 1 Tweener)
- Unforced Error Forcefulness Index 44.6
(Note 1: All 1/2 volleys refer to such shots played at net. 1/2 volleys played from other parts of the court are included within relevant groundstroke numbers)
(Note 2: the Unforced Error Forcefulness Index is an indicator of how aggressive the average UE was. The numbers presented for these two matches are keyed on 4 categories - 20 defensive, 40 neutral, 50 attacking and 60 winner attempt)
Net Points & Serve-Volley
Djokovic was...
- 15/26 (58%) at net, with...
- 1/5 (20%) forced back/retreated
Murray was...
- 13/15 (87%) at net, with...
- 0/2 forced back/retreated
Match Report
Top class match featuring terrific returning ,excellent ball striking and great defence from both players on a quick-ish court. Djokovic dominates the final set but first two are near enough even, and its Murray who lets a win slip through his fingers in the second
Murray serves for the match in second set and leading 30-0, forces Djokovic back with a lob. But remains on the baseline himself. Djoko pulls of a tweener to put ball back in play and goes on to win the point with a perfect BH drop shot. He rarely plays drop shots in the match - action is all about ball striking, and finesse rarely comes into picture - and generally, makes a hash of the shot regularly. Hell of a time to pull off a perfect one, especially given what happened earlier in the point. Still, Murray brings up a match point later in game. Djoko commands the point and whacks a short-ish ball FH inside-in for a winner - and goes on to break with some excellent returns and other hard hit groundies
Murray has 4 further match points in the tiebreak, 2 of them before Djoko has the first of his four set points, and the first of them on his serve. He's learnt from the non-approach mistake that probably cost him the title and takes to coming to net to end points in tiebreak - behind very strong approach shots. Tiebreak ends when Djoko whacks a typical deep return from outside court and Murray misses his FH into open court. Not an easy shot, but more makeable than not. On the first set point he's had on his serve, Djoko whacks away a third ball, swinging FHV winner
Beyond all that, the tiebreak is excellent tennis from both players - strong deep returns or somehow neutralizing ones to strong wide serves, followed by hard hitting baseline play with great defence thrown in from both players. The whole dynamic of the end of second set is similar to famous 4th set of 1980 Wimbledon final between Borg and McEnroe
Match levelled, Djoko commands third set, breaks twice, serves 24 points to Murray's 37 and takes the match
And before all that is the strangeness of the first set, which has 7 breaks in 12 games. That isn't even the end of the strangeness. One of the rare holds is by Murray in a game he misses all 6 first serves in (including a double fault). And the decisive break comes with Djokovic blowing a 40-0 lead - there's a flawless Murray BH inside-out winner in there, but the rest of the points he loses are via his own UEs - and Djoko obliterates his racquet at end of it
There is no key difference that shapes the result. Point here, point there stuff for two sets. Murray faltering in third set puts Djoko ahead in most areas by match end - he leads unreturned rate by 3%, is +5 on winners and -18 on UEs. Murray forces double the number of errors though - 26 to 13
It was Djokovic's first title at the event, while Murray was going for his third in a row. The two had recently played the US Open final (where Murray won his first Slam) and would shortly afterwards play the 2013 Australian Open final (where Djokovic would win)
Djokovic won 119 points, Murray 113
Serve Stats
Djokovic...
- 1st serve percentage (62/104) 60%
- 1st serve points won (43/62) 69%
- 2nd serve points won (20/42) 48%
- Aces 3
- Double Faults 4
- Unreturned Serve Percentage (29/104) 28%
Murray...
- 1st serve percentage (71/128) 55%
- 1st serve points won (46/71) 65%
- 2nd serve points won (26/57) 46%
- Aces 4, Service Winners 1
- Double Faults 3
- Unreturned Serve Percentage (32/128) 25%
Serve Patterns
Djokovic served...
- to FH 43%
- to BH 41%
- to Body 16%
Murray served...
- to FH 46%
- to BH 52%
- to Body 2%
Return Stats
Djokovic made...
- 93 (49 FH, 44 BH), including 1 runaround FH
- 3 Winners (3 BH)
- 27 Errors, comprising...
- 12 Unforced (7 FH, 5 BH)
- 15 Forced (4 FH, 11 BH)
- Return Rate (93/125) 74%
Murray made...
- 71 (32 FH, 39 BH)
- 2 Winners (1 FH, 1 BH)
- 26 Errors, comprising...
- 15 Unforced (10 FH, 5 BH)
- 11 Forced (4 FH, 7 BH)
- Return Rate (71/100) 71%
Break Points
Djokovic 6/13 (7 games)
Murray 5/6 (5 game)
Winners (including returns, excluding serves)
Djokovic 27 (10 FH, 7 BH, 4 FHV, 2 BHV, 4 OH)
Murray 22 (11 FH, 6 BH, 1 FHV, 1 BH1/2V, 2 OH)
Djokovic's FHs - 1 cc, 5 inside-out, 3 inside-in and 1 inside-in/cc
- BHs - 2 cc (1 return), 2 dtl, 2 inside-out returns and 1 drop shot
- 3 FHVs were swinging shots (1 non-net shot)
- 2 OHs were on bounce (1 from baseline) and 1 was a non-net shot (taken on full closer to baseline than service line)
Murray's FHs - 3 cc (1 return, 1 pass), 1 dtl, 4 inside-out, 1 inside-in, 1 inside-in/cc and 1 running-down-drop-shot dtl at net net chord dribbler
- BHs - 4 cc (1 return, 1 pass), 1 inside-out and 1 drop shot
- 1 BHV can reasonably be called a BHOH
- 1 OH was on the bounce
Errors (excluding serves and returns)
Djokovic 55
- 29 Unforced (13 FH, 13 BH, 3 FHV)... with 2 non-net swinging FHVs
- 26 Forced (11 FH, 12 BH, 1 FHV, 1 BHV, 1 Tweener)... with 1 FH running-down-drop-shot at net
- Unforced Error Forcefulness Index 46.9
Murray 60
- 47 Unforced (22 FH, 24 BH, 1 Challenge)
- 13 Forced (8 FH, 4 BH, 1 Tweener)
- Unforced Error Forcefulness Index 44.6
(Note 1: All 1/2 volleys refer to such shots played at net. 1/2 volleys played from other parts of the court are included within relevant groundstroke numbers)
(Note 2: the Unforced Error Forcefulness Index is an indicator of how aggressive the average UE was. The numbers presented for these two matches are keyed on 4 categories - 20 defensive, 40 neutral, 50 attacking and 60 winner attempt)
Net Points & Serve-Volley
Djokovic was...
- 15/26 (58%) at net, with...
- 1/5 (20%) forced back/retreated
Murray was...
- 13/15 (87%) at net, with...
- 0/2 forced back/retreated
Match Report
Top class match featuring terrific returning ,excellent ball striking and great defence from both players on a quick-ish court. Djokovic dominates the final set but first two are near enough even, and its Murray who lets a win slip through his fingers in the second
Murray serves for the match in second set and leading 30-0, forces Djokovic back with a lob. But remains on the baseline himself. Djoko pulls of a tweener to put ball back in play and goes on to win the point with a perfect BH drop shot. He rarely plays drop shots in the match - action is all about ball striking, and finesse rarely comes into picture - and generally, makes a hash of the shot regularly. Hell of a time to pull off a perfect one, especially given what happened earlier in the point. Still, Murray brings up a match point later in game. Djoko commands the point and whacks a short-ish ball FH inside-in for a winner - and goes on to break with some excellent returns and other hard hit groundies
Murray has 4 further match points in the tiebreak, 2 of them before Djoko has the first of his four set points, and the first of them on his serve. He's learnt from the non-approach mistake that probably cost him the title and takes to coming to net to end points in tiebreak - behind very strong approach shots. Tiebreak ends when Djoko whacks a typical deep return from outside court and Murray misses his FH into open court. Not an easy shot, but more makeable than not. On the first set point he's had on his serve, Djoko whacks away a third ball, swinging FHV winner
Beyond all that, the tiebreak is excellent tennis from both players - strong deep returns or somehow neutralizing ones to strong wide serves, followed by hard hitting baseline play with great defence thrown in from both players. The whole dynamic of the end of second set is similar to famous 4th set of 1980 Wimbledon final between Borg and McEnroe
Match levelled, Djoko commands third set, breaks twice, serves 24 points to Murray's 37 and takes the match
And before all that is the strangeness of the first set, which has 7 breaks in 12 games. That isn't even the end of the strangeness. One of the rare holds is by Murray in a game he misses all 6 first serves in (including a double fault). And the decisive break comes with Djokovic blowing a 40-0 lead - there's a flawless Murray BH inside-out winner in there, but the rest of the points he loses are via his own UEs - and Djoko obliterates his racquet at end of it
There is no key difference that shapes the result. Point here, point there stuff for two sets. Murray faltering in third set puts Djoko ahead in most areas by match end - he leads unreturned rate by 3%, is +5 on winners and -18 on UEs. Murray forces double the number of errors though - 26 to 13