Murray smashed in Open final

Roger Federer has smashed Andy Murray's bid to make history at the US Open.

The Swiss master beat the 21-year-old Scot at Flushing Meadows, New York, destroying Murray's dream of becoming the first British man to win a Grand Slam singles title since Fred Perry in 1936.

Federer won 6-2 7-5 6-2 to claim his 13th grand slam singles crown and become the first man since Bill Tilden in 1924 to win the US Open five times in a row.

Crowds of supporters in Murray's hometown Dunblane and across the UK were hoping the British number one would reproduce the blistering form that saw him beat top seed Rafael Nadal at the weekend.

But Federer was on imperious form, breaking back repeatedly to race to the straight-sets win in less than two hours.

Federer took the first set easily but Murray matched him in the second and games stayed on serve until 6-5, when Federer ripped a forehand pass down the line to snatch the set.

Murray, playing in his first Grand Slam final in blustery conditions on the Arthur Ashe Stadium court, seemed to crumble in the third, and a clinical Federer broke him in the eighth game to clinch victory.

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