the thing I'm most pleased with, that I've been trying to go out there and win matches rather than waiting for my opponent to lose them." Since that momentous Monday in New York it has been a case of nearly but not quite for Murray, who has not won a regular ATP Tour title since the first week of the season in Brisbane. The closest he came to adding to that was at the Shanghai Masters last month, when he held five match points in the final against Novak Djokovic but could not take them. He also had match points in his Tokyo semi-final against Milos Raonic and at the Paris Masters against Jerzy Janowicz only to lose both matches, while yesterday he started very well but tailed off in the second set. Murray said: "It could have been a little bit different if a few points had gone the other way. I lost with match points in Tokyo. Then the match with Novak was an incredibly close match. I had a few match points there. "Then also in Paris and here, against Novak (in the group stages), again it was a very tight match, just a couple of points. "So I don't think the results have been that bad or that I played poorly or not responded well to winning the US Open. I feel like I played some decent tennis. I've just not quite finished a couple of matches when I had chances. "I obviously would have liked