Andy Murray took a tumble the recover to beat Croatia's Marin Cilic 5-7 7-5 6-3 to win the Aegon Championships for the third time at Queen's Club on Sunday June 16, 2013.
Murray, world number two missed the French Open because of a back injury. He suffered a painful slip when leading 4-3 in the first set, screaming in pain and rolling to the turf, he lose the opener against the defending champion.
"The courts had taken a bit of a pounding this week and it's been extremely wet," Murray said. "It was just a bit sore on the groin area but thankfully it wasn't too bad."
Murray appear in control in the opening set, he broke Cilic's opening service game with ease and moving comfortably into a 4-2 lead. However, Cilic took advantage of some Murray errors to storm back in the seventh game but looked set to hand Murray the initiative again in the following game as he slipped 15-40 behind.
He saved the first break point but on the second the Murray slipped awkwardly behind the baseline and shouted in pain as his fans watched on anxiously. Murray looked tentative and hurt while Cilic took advantage to break in the 11th game and serve out the set.
The second set went with serve until Cilic wavered at 5-6. A silky lob from Murray gave him a glimmer of a break and he took his chance to level the match.
Murray dominated the final set, going up 3-1 when Cilic made a forehand error.
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