Djokovic Destroys Murray, Will Meet Canas in Miami Final

Tenth-seeded Novak Djokovic reached his second consecutive Masters Series final after crushing fellow 19-year-old and No. 12 seed Andy Murray 6-1, 6-0 at the Sony Ericsson Open in Miami Friday.

Djokovic will face qualifier Guillermo Canas of Argentina at noon Sunday in the best-of-five sets championship. It will be the first meeting between the two. Canas advanced to his second career Masters Series final on Friday night with a 7-5, 6-2 thumping over No. 7 and 2006 finalist Ivan Ljubicic. Canas is the first qualifier in the tournament's 23-year history to reach the final and in his previous Masters Series final he won the title in Toronto in 2002 defeating Andy Roddick.

"Since I am here, you know, I'll try to win," Djokovic said. "So sure, you know, finals is something else. You can't go to the finals and just, you know, give up. Everybody wants to win a title".

The Serbian made it three career wins out of three against Murray in 63 minutes. The pair last met in the semifinals of ATP Masters Series Indian Wells two weeks ago.

Murray had his serve broken five times, as he made 23 unforced errors and won 30 points in total. The Scot, who successfully defended his San Jose title last month, now has a 23-5 match record this season.

"It was the worst match that I've probably played since I've been on the tour," Murray said. "He was much better than me today. So no excuses."

Djokovic has yet to drop a set and has only dropped serve once all tournament, that coming to Nadal in the quarterfinals.

Canas never lost his serve in defeating Ljubicic for the second time, saving all seven break points he faced, including three in the sixth game. Meanwhile, the 29-year-old Argentine broke Ljubicic three times in as many break chances.

Canas will attempt to become the first qualifier to win an Masters Series title since Albert Portas at 2001 Hamburg.

"Four days ago I start to play first round qualifier, and really I have a lot of confidence in my game," Canas said. "But I saw it was too far to get into the final. But really I am playing day by day, better and better. I have a very good results. I get confidence, and now I'm in the finals. Just yeah, it's like a dream."

The 55th-ranked Canas has defeated three straight Top 10 opponents -- No. 1 Roger Federer, No. 6 Tommy Robredo and No. 7 Ljubicic and now gets a shot at No. 4 in Djokovic.

"I'm feeling great to be in the final," added Canas. "I try to beat the six seed in a row. But the real thing is I know I saw the match this afternoon, and I think that he [Djokovic] plays very well. He has a lot of confident. He makes final in Indian Wells and now he is in final here. I think it's going to be a tough match for me. But really I feel very confident in my game. I know if I play well, I have a chance to beat him. It's just I try to do my best and tomorrow I'm going to start to thinking in the final. But just today I try to enjoy what I did."

Canas, who was unranked just six months ago, will move to around No. 31 in next week's tour rankings and a title will put him in the Top 25.