In beating Djokovic 6-3, 6-4 in an hour and 42 minutes to win his first ATP World Tour Finals title, the Scot secured the world No1 spot at the end of a long and glorious year, and confounded pessimists who predicted the rigours of the past week – not to mention the previous three months – would drain him of the will to win. Murray’s play in the winner-takes-all season climax was all the more remarkable as a day earlier he looked on the point of mental and physical exhaustion after taking almost four hours to subdue Milos Raonic in the semi-final. “But sometimes it’s just normal, I guess, to experience, to live these kind of things, not to have the half seasons as well as you want them to be, as well as they’ve been in the last three, four years. It’s taken a huge effort the last five, six months to get there,” said Murray, who took over the top ranking two weeks ago and has now won 24 straight matches.
In tennis, Andy Murray defeats Novak Djokovic 6–3, 6–4 in the final of the 2016 ATP World Tour finals and finishes the year as the world's number 1.