Typical Murray bottled it with the tournament open to be won
Yeah sure. Two Olympic gold medals, three Grand Slam tournaments in the age of the greatest players of all time (Nadal, Djokovic and Federer), 39 singles tournaments overall and winning the David Cup almost single handedly. Proper bottler he is.
Simple as - Wimbledon, Olympics and then the Cincinatti Masters, getting to the final of all three has caught up on him. Nishikori was clearly the fitter of the two in those last two sets. The US Open is when the top seeds are most vulnerable as a long season catches up on them here and for someone who has been full at it the whole summer and indeed the whole season it's not a huge surprise. Hence the reason why Cilic of all people won the tournament a couple of years back.
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