This was a strange match. Del Potro, seemed to be tired from his 3 set semi-final match against Andy Roddick. He took so much time, between points that the umpire gave him several warnings, for time abuse. But he still played great in the first two sets and stayed completely even with Murray, narrowly winning the first set tie-break thanks to an unforced error from Murray, and then narrowly losing the second set. By the very end of the second set it became obvious that Del Potro was running out of steam. He took an extensively long injury time-out after the second set. Murray, complained to the umpire about the amount of time Del Potro was taking and the umpire said he would deal with it. Murray, seemed to be angry with Del Potro for taking so much time and the sports commentators said that Murray and Del Potro had somewhat of a bitter rivalry going back to their jr. days. Murray started to play more aggressively in the third set, and thorougly dominated Del Potro, eventually taking the the set and match 6-1.
Final thoughts: This was a good match. Both guys played in top form, for most of it and Del Potro in particular served great. One side note, the sports commentators were extremely annoying. They kept calling Del Potro "Del Po" or "The big man" I guess that's their way of trying to add color commentary but it just came off as stupid. I swear they get the worst people to commentate at the US Open series tournaments.XP
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