Ferrer is in Shanghai

Andy Murray overpowered Japan’s Kei Nishikori 6-3, 6-0 in under an hour Saturday to set up a Shanghai Masters final against David Ferrer.

Ferrer struggled to beat fellow Spaniard Feliciano Lopez 6-7 (5), 6-3, 6-3, the third straight match the fifth-ranked player has come back to win after losing the first set.

The fourth-ranked Murray has now won 24 of his last 25 matches and is vying for his third tournament in as many weeks.

Nishikori was completely overwhelmed by Murray, winning just one point on the Scot’s serve in the first set and six in the entire match.

The 21-year-old Nishikori has had the best week of his career, defeating two Top-20 players—Jo-Wilfried Tsonga of France and Alexandr Dolgopolov of Ukraine — and improving his ranking to around 32 next week, the highest ranking ever for a Japanese player on the ATP tour.

But he had no answer for Murray, who hit 20 winners to just eight unforced errors, whilebreaking Nishikori’s serve five times.

Murray, the defending champion, has barely been tested this week. He received a bye in the first round, a walkover in the second and easily beat a 124th-ranked qualifier in the quarterfinals. The Scot dropped one set to the only seeded player he’s faced, No. 13 Stanislas Wawrinka of Switzerland.

Ferrer, meanwhile, had to save three match points in his third-round win over Juan Carlos Ferrero and edged by Andy Roddick in the quarterfinals in a third-set tiebreaker.