Hello and welcome to the Telegraph Sport live broadcast of today’s Stuttgart Open final between Andy Murray and Matteo Berettini.
Murray will play his first final on a single on the grass after winning Wimbledon in 2016, when he faces the second placed Italian Beretini in today’s final.
Murray stunned Stefanos Tsitsipas in the quarterfinals on Friday, Murray’s first victory in six years against a top five opponent.
This is the second final of 2022 for Murray, who lost to Aslan Karatsev on the Sydney Tennis Classic hard court in January and for the first time when he reached two finals in the same season since 2017. Murray, who struggled to get back to his best result after hip surgery, last won the European Open singles title in Belgium in 2019 and holds a record 46-23 in the finals.
Berettini won 7-6 (7), 7-6 (5) over Oscar Otte in a hard game without service interruptions. Beretini saved a set point in the tiebreak of the first set and needed three match points to complete the victory.
Murray and Beretini won one of their two matches in their careers, with Beretini winning their only grass game at the Queen’s Club last year.
Murray advanced to the semifinals against Nick Kyrgios yesterday, but the Australian said he was facing racist harassment from the audience during the loss.
The Australian posted on Instagram after losing 7-6 (5), 6-2 to Murray that he had heard insulting comments from the stands.
“When will this stop?” Dealing with racial insults from the crowd? ”He wrote on Instagram. “I understand that my behavior is not the best all the time _ but” you, little black sheep “” shut up and play “small comments like this are not acceptable. When I take revenge on the crowd, I get punished. This is confusing. “
Kyrgios received a penalty with a point for breaking his racket at the end of the tiebreak in the first set, and then a game penalty for unsportsmanlike conduct in the second set, as he approached the audience and appeared to ask, “What did you say?” Kyrgios sat down and did not continue the match until he spoke with the tournament supervisor.
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