ABU DHABI: World number one Andy Murray ended 2016 with a win over Milos Raonic to take third place in the Mubadala World Tennis Championships (MWTC) on Saturday.
Wimbledon and Olympic champion Murray, who was knighted in the New Year Honours list, beat Canada’s Raonic 6-3, 7-6 (8/6) in the exhibition event.
The 29-year-old Scot lost to David Goffin in Friday’s semi-final, his first defeat in six meetings with the 11th-ranked Belgian.
Murray’s next stop is neighbouring Qatar for the opening week of the ATP season and two weeks out from the Australian Open, the first Grand Slam of 2017.
In the match for fifth-place in the six-man field, France’s Jo-Wilfried Tsonga beat Czech Thomas Berdych 6-7 (5/7), 6-3, 10-3.