{"id":280815,"date":"2016-12-30T15:46:50","date_gmt":"2016-12-30T15:46:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=280815"},"modified":"2016-12-30T15:46:50","modified_gmt":"2016-12-30T15:46:50","slug":"andy-murray-loses-to-david-goffin-in-season-opener","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/2016\/12\/andy-murray-loses-to-david-goffin-in-season-opener\/","title":{"rendered":"Andy Murray loses to David Goffin in season opener"},"content":{"rendered":"
World number one Andy Murray started his new season with a surprise defeat to Belgian David Goffin in the semi-finals of the Mubadala World Tennis Championship in Abu Dhabi.<\/p>\n
Murray, who had not conceded a set in his previous five encounters against the Belgian, was beaten 7-6 (7-4) 6-4.<\/p>\n
After losing the opening set at the exhibition tournament, Murray recovered to go 3-2 up in the second set.<\/p>\n
But the world number 11 broke back and piled the pressure on the Briton.<\/p>\n
Goffin will face either Milos Raonic or Rafael Nadal in Saturday’s final, with Murray up against the loser of the semi-final.<\/p>\n
Murray lost just nine matches in his entire 2016 season.<\/p>\n
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Source: BBC<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
World number one Andy Murray started his new season with a surprise defeat to Belgian David Goffin in the semi-finals of the Mubadala World Tennis Championship in Abu Dhabi. Murray, who had not conceded a set in his previous five encounters against the Belgian, was beaten 7-6 (7-4) 6-4. After losing the opening set at […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":280824,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"\n