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58 THE British No 1 endured a rough, error-laden experience in China and his long-time ri- val Djokovic was in a typically unforgiving mood, seemingly breaking at will and mastering Murray throughout. Djokovic will now play Jo-Wil- fried Tsonga in the Shanghai fi- nal on Sunday, which is live on Sky Sports 3 HD at 9.30am. Djokovic, such is his brilliance on the court, did not require the assistance that Murray gave him to waltz towards the first set but gladly accepted it. In just 25 minutes, Murray was broken three times in a row, hit four double-faults and 17 unforced errors. Murray was forced to save two break points in the very first game but, rather than grow into the set, the pressure became more intense. Next time he had the ball in hand, he failed to win a point and poorly missed a backhand. As Djokovic surged to 4-1 up the first set seemed like a fore- gone conclusion but the manner of his third break on the bounce was worrying for the Brit. He meekly seemed to find Djoko- vic's forehand with any asser- tive shot of his own and folded before the half-hour mark. There appeared to be a light at the end of the tunnel, when in the first game of the second set, Murray broke as Djokovic sud- denly lacked vigour on his serve. But it was a false dawn - as if agitated by his own imperfec- tion, Djokovic roared back with an immediate break that includ- ed a sensational point. A rally took the crowd on an emotional rollercoaster but, somewhat inevitably, fell in favour of the Serb. The double-faults returned to haunt Murray who gave up his serve again and found himself 4-1 down. Holding his serve was an arduous task and he needed to save match point once before Djokovic coolly served himself into the final. Murray finished with six dou- ble-faults, 17 unforced errors and just nine winners. maltatoday, SUNDAY, 18 OCTOBER 2015 Sport TENNIS Virtù Ferries This week's winner is NIKITA ZAMMIT who collected her two tickets from Virtù Ferries MaltaToday and Virtù Ferries have teamed up to take one lucky winner and a companion every week to Sicily, with two tickets to be won every week in our photography competition. Already been on holiday? Good: we're sending you back if your best photograph from your holidays and travels makes the cut. That's right: send us a good quality image of your holidays and we'll send the best one to the gateway of Italy with Virtù Ferries. Malta - Sicily Express Ferries For more information visit www.virtuferries.com or contact by telephone 23491000 RULES OF THE COMPETITION maltatoday Conditions apply: 1. Tickets for each week's competition can only be won by one person who submits one entry of a high-res image with description. Entrants with more than one entry WILL NOT be considered. Entrants must send a description of photo. 2. Winners will be informed before the end of the week, and then announced on maltatoday.com.mt and MaltaToday on Sunday. 3. By entering this offer, entrants consent to their photos being published and owned by Mediatoday Co Ltd. 4. The entrant with the best photograph will be awarded two (2) return tickets, valid for travel to any Virtù Ferries destination. Mediatoday's decision is final. 5. Tickets are issued free of charge, excluding port charges, and in accordance with Virtù Ferries' rules and regulations. All taxes and charges are to be paid accordingly by the winning entrant upon the issuance of tickets. 6. This offer is closed to employees and contributors of Mediatoday Co. Ltd and Virtù Ferries, or their family members. This week's theme: Travel SEND US PHOTOS FROM YOUR FAVOURITE HOLIDAY PHOTO COMPETITION Photos should be a hi-res image (one per individual entry) with a sentence or two about what inspired you to take your photo. Entrants are kindly reminded not to send in personal family pictures that might be unrelated to theme subjects unless expressly requested. If sending a photo by post, address it to: 'MaltaToday photo competition', Mediatoday, Vjal ir- Rihan, San Gwann, SGN9016 Please supply your daytime telephone number, your name, your home address and an email address. Send the photo via email on info@mediatoday.com.mt [SUBJECT HEADING: MaltaToday photo competition] by next Friday at 9am. Themes may change from one week to the other Andy Murray mauled by Djokovic A below-par Andy Murray was demolished by Novak Djokovic 6-1 6-3 in the Shanghai Rolex Masters semi- finals on Saturday Andy Murray fell in straight sets to Novak Djokovic