Nottingham Open 2023: Andy Murray beats Nuno Borges to reach second successive grass-court final

Britain's Andy Murray moved into his 2nd successive grass-court last with a triumph implicit Portugal's Nuno Borges successful the Nottingham Open semi-finals.

Cazaux, 20, is the satellite fig 181 and bushed 5th effect Dominik Koepfer.

In the women's event, Katie Boulter faces Jodie Burrage successful the first all-British WTA last since 1977.

"You travel present to bask the tennis but yet you privation to triumph the tournament," said Murray aft completing a 6-3 6-2 triumph implicit 3rd effect Borges, the satellite fig 73.

"I practised with him [Cazaux] a fewer weeks ago, helium is simply a apical young French subordinate truthful it volition beryllium a bully one.

"I've been playing a batch of youngsters precocious and it's ever tough. Some of these guys it's the archetypal clip seeing them but I've practised with him truthful hopefully not excessively galore surprises.

"I've enjoyed it [the tournament] a lot. The courts are superb successful presumption of prime and immoderate of the champion writer courts I've played connected truthful good done to groundsman and their squad for making them truthful bully - it's wherefore the prime of tennis has been good."

Murray is 44th successful the satellite rankings and trying to get into the apical 32 earlier Wimbledon, which begins connected 3 July.

He has present won 9 matches successful a enactment and not dropped a acceptable successful the past six of them, including each 4 matches successful Nottingham.

Murray stormed into a 4-1 pb aft lone 16 minutes and broke Borges' service aboriginal successful the 2nd acceptable with the Portuguese incapable to recover.

After Sunday's final, Murray's adjacent tourney volition beryllium astatine the Queen's Club Championships successful London.

He has been drawn against seventh effect and satellite fig 18 Alex de Minaur of Australia, a subordinate Murray has ne'er beaten successful their 3 erstwhile meetings, successful the opening round.

Skupski and Koolhof triumph successful the Netherlands

Wesley Koolhof (left) and Neal Skupski reached the last of the US Open men's doubles past year

Britain's Neal Skupski, on with Dutch team-mate Wesley Koolhof, won the men's doubles of the Libema Open successful Rosmalen, the Netherlands.

The brace played the duo of Gonzalo Escobar and Aleksandr Nedovyesov successful the last and recorded a 7-6 (7-1) 6-2 win.

In Nottingham, the men's doubles last was an all-British matter with the squad of Jacob Fearnley and Johannus Monday beating the pairing of Liam Broady and Jonny O'Mara 6-3 6-7 (10-7).

In the Stuttgart Open successful Germany, American Francis Tiafoe volition play German Jan-Lennard Struff successful the last aft semi-final victories implicit Marton Fucsovics of Hungary and Poland's Hubert Hurkacz respectively.

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