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Murray Saves M.P. To Keep Alive No. 1 Dream

Andy Murray fought off a match point and outlasted Milos Raonic in one of the season's finest matches on Saturday during their Barclays ATP World Tour Finals semi-final in London. The Scot, encouraged by the home crowd, prevailed past Raonic 5-7, 7-6(5), 7-6(9) in three hours and 38 minutes, the longest three-set match at the season finale since match times were recorded in 1991. “It was one of the tougher matches I played this year,” Murray said. “It was not easy... obviously with it being very long, but also mentally tiring as well.” Now Murray will play in the Barclays ATP World Tour Finals title match for the first time, and he'll be playing to keep his No. 1 Emirates...

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Klaasen/Ram Power Into Final

Two first-year pairings will contest the Barclays ATP World Tour Finals doubles final Sunday after Raven Klaasen and Rajeev Ram eclipsed newly minted World No. 1 team Jamie Murray and Bruno Soares in Saturday’s semi-finals. Klaasen, of South African, and Ram, of the United States, will play Finland’s Henri Kontinen and Australia’s John Peers, who earlier in the day upset four-time champions Bob and Mike Bryan. Klaasen and Ram needed exactly one hour to claim a 6-1, 6-4 win over Murray and Soares, who yesterday learned they would finish 2016 at No. 1 in the Emirates ATP Doubles Team Rankings. After dropping just 12 points in the first set, Klaasen and Ram faced only one scare in the second set...

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