As we enter today's final of the US Open, Novak Djokovic goes in as slight favourite. Djokovic is the defending Champion and leads the Head to Head with Murray 8-6. Interestingly, they have only met twice in the Slams and that was at the 2011 Australian Open final, and again this year in Melbourne at the Semi Final stage. In that 2011 final Djokovic stormed to a 6-4, 6-2, 6-3 victory and Murray never really got into the match. Djokovic did go on to dominate 2011 with some of the most amazing tennis we have seen. This year's semi final at Australia was a much tighter affair finishing 6-3, 3-6, 6-7(4), 6-1, 7-5. This was an epic match and Murray showed he was able to match the Serb for the vast majority of the 4 hours 50 minutes battle. If we look at the stats below, it would suggest Djokovic is also showing to be in slightly better shape than Murray. When compared side by side in 2012 Slam averages, Djokovic edges Murray in pretty much all of the key categories.
Interesting numbers from matchups, finals and slams for Djokovic, Murray, Nadal and Federer