Murray beats Djokovic to win Miami Masters

In tennis, Britain's Andy Murray has beaten Novak Djokovic of Serbia in straight sets to win the Sony Ericsson Open. It was the Scot's third Masters title, following wins in Cincinnati and Madrid last year.

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Murray broke in the opening game and held serve in the second with some inspired tennis. The Briton's agile movements allowing him to win this exciting rally.

Djokovic struggled in the blistering hot conditions. Murray bamboozled the third seed with more deft play to take the set 6-2.

Djokovic restored some momentum in the second and the Serbian went ahead 4-1 with this backhand.

But Murray saved a couple of set points before leveling at 5-5 and then broke to lead 6-5. Murray served out for a 6-2, 7-5 victory to take his third masters title.

Spaniard Blanco beats 50m butterfly world record

MADRID, April 5 (Xinhua) -- Spaniard swimmer Rafael Blanco Sunday beat the world record of 50m butterfly, timing 22.43 seconds in the Spain's championship held in Malaga, south of Spain.

The previous mark was held by South African Roland Schoeman in 22.96 seconds at the World Cup Montreal 2005. The European record was 23.11 seconds, set up by Serbian Minorad Capic.

Blanco is the first European swimmer to reduce the barrier of the 23 seconds in 50 meter butterfly.

Blanco, 21, had also achieved the second best record in history of 100m butterfly with a time of 50.58 seconds, with this he is coming closer to the best swimmers of the world.

My goal is to get the world record, today I did it in 50 meter butterfly, but my real goal is to achieve it on 100m, Blanco said.