• Murray and Mattek-Sands lose mixed doubles final 5-7, 6-4, 10-1 • Murray misses chance to break British record in Open era Jamie Murray narrowly missed out on breaking the British record in the Open era as he and his partner, Bethanie Mattek-Sands, were beaten 5-7, 6-4, 10-1 by Barbora Krejcikova and Nikola Mektic in the Australian Open mixed doubles final. Although he had arrived in Melbourne without the faintest idea of his place in British tennis history, Murray had been chasing his eighth overall slam title – he is currently level with Virgina Wade – his sixth mixed doubles crown and a third alongside Mattek-Sands. Instead, he and his partner were forced to smile through the frustration as a match that had started so promisingly slipped away in a flash, ending at the stroke of midnight. Continue reading...