Andy Murray beaten by Andrey Rublev in Mubadala World Tennis Championship final
Andy Murray couldn't cover a solid week in the Middle East with a success as he lost the Mubadala World Tennis Championship last in straight sets to Andrey Rublev.
The Russian world number five won 6-4 7-6 (7-2) to get the title at the show occasion in Abu Dhabi.
Murray, 34, struggled back in the subsequent set, however floundered in the tie-break.
He had beaten individual Briton Dan Evans and 20-time Grand Slam champion Rafael Nadal to arrive at the last.
Rublev controlled a significant part of the principal set and got the conclusive break of serve in the fifth game.
The 24-year-old then, at that point, broke the Scot in the principal round of the second however his serve briefly abandoned him as he hit three twofold blames during the eighth game, permitting Murray to crush spirit with a heavenly strike victor.
Rublev figured out how to pull it together and held to very much want to compel the tie-break, which he won serenely as Murray's test ran out of steam.
Notwithstanding the loss, Murray said he was hopeful as he proceeds to attempt to reignite his profession subsequent to having two significant hip activities.
"I have been really solid in the course of the most recent three months, I must play a great deal of matches," said the three-time Grand Slam champ, who is working with mentor Jan de Witt later his split with Jamie Delgado.
"I simply need to track down a method of turning a portion of these matches against the top players around and ideally I can have some large runs in the greatest competitions once more, that is my objective.
"I'm making a decent attempt as I can to do that."
Murray is planning to play in the Australian Open interestingly beginning around 2018 with the principal Grand Slam of 2022 beginning in Melbourne on 17 January.
Prior, Canadian Denis Shapovalov beat Nadal 6-7 (4-7) 6-3 10-6 in the third-place play-off with the Spaniard getting back to tennis in Abu Dhabi, having not played since August in light of a foot injury.
