Murray wins St Petersburg Open

Tennis: Britain's Andy Murray has defended the St Petersburg Open title with a 6-1 6-1 win over Kazakhstan's Andrey Golubev …

Tennis:Britain's Andy Murray has defended the St Petersburg Open title with a 6-1 6-1 win over Kazakhstan's Andrey Golubev in the final.

Golubev held serve in the first game of the second set — but that was as good as it got as the Scot reeled off four games in a row.

Murray had insisted he faced a tough test yesterday — but it did not turn out that way as he eased to match point in the seventh game.

Although the Kazakh saved it and had the chance to reduce the arrears to 2-5 — he doubled faulted — and Murray took the next match point on offer to win the contest in less than 57 minutes.