Andy Murray misses out on a Major for another year

ANDY Murray will have to wait another year to see if he can win a Grand Slam tournament.

He lost in the semi-final to Rafael Nadal 6-4, 6-2, 3-6, 6-2.

Rafael Nadal will now face Novak Djokovic in the men’s final of the last Major of the year.

Djokovic was 2-0 down in sets at one point and also had to save two match points to beat Roger Federer.

It is another frustrating year for Andy Murray who lost in the final of the Australian Open, reached the semi-final of Wimbledon (before losing to Nadal) and also was beaten by Nadal again here.

Let’s hope Murray can break his duck in the Majors next year and clinch one of the big four, perhaps it will be at the Australian Open.

The final of this year’s US Open will start at 9pm tonight (Monday).

Meanwhile Downton Abbey is to start again next Sunday (September 18).

This year there is to be eight new episodes plus a Christmas special.

Over ten million people in England watched the first series of the programme, which was written by Julian Fellowes who won an Oscar for Gosford Park in 2002.

Many of the characters from the first series return, such as Violet Dowager Countess of Grantham, Lady Mary Crawley and John Bates, the Valet.

The second series follows on from the first which ended in 1914 with Lord Grantham announcing that England was at war with Germany.

The new series will highlight the social changes that took place during the first half of the 1900s.