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Re: Andy Murray: The Achievement Of The Century
DIR By: Embla
Date: November 21, 2013, 4:42 pm
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> i thought he really deserved wimbledon 2012 more than
2013.......he should really thank delpo for making it easy for
him in the final.......
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Novak has played in big semis before and won final.
Imo Andy is the best grass court player out there now.
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Re: Andy Murray: The Achievement Of The Century
DIR By: Clay Death
Date: November 21, 2013, 5:21 pm
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I think I may have to agree with lady Embla.
Andy is the best on grass until proven differently.
can you imagine if we get another Andy vs nole final at
Wimbledon?
I would have to pick Andy in that match.
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Re: Andy Murray: The Achievement Of The Century
DIR By: Emma
Date: November 21, 2013, 7:44 pm
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> i thought he really deserved wimbledon 2012 more than
2013.......he should really thank delpo for making it easy for
him in the final.......
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Who should he thank for his USO win over Nole? And the win at
the Olympics semi where he straight setted Nole? I suppose he
could thank Del Potro for damaging Federer in the Olympics semi,
which then allowed Andy to win the final over Federer. That
sneaky bastard, really.
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Re: Andy Murray: The Achievement Of The Century
DIR By: Embla
Date: November 22, 2013, 7:27 am
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Nole is the fittest player out there.
He was outplayed in Wimbledon.
He had easy matches until semis.
I think it also has something to do that he had to fix his shoes
before the quarter. He looked less stabile on court after that.
Nole becomming sooooo good on clay. Rafa better on hc. And andy
grass, but also hc.
Next season.... Bring it on!!!!
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Re: Andy Murray: The Achievement Of The Century
DIR By: Emma
Date: November 23, 2013, 12:06 pm
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HTML http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/tennis/wimbledon/9374237/Remains-of-Fred-Perry-spent-a-year-in-cold-storage-during-Wimbledon-roof-works.html
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> Wimbledon IS tennis. It is a wonderful place to live!
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Thanks Embla. I found it a fascinating read. Fred Perry was
apparently quite the ladies' man. He was married to a few and
dated some others while he was a star, so quite the opposite of
Andy. But what I found interesting was that, he was not at all
well recognized by his own countrymen during his time in tennis
and it took them 20 years to do so. By that time, he had
retired, gotten older etc.
And of course, Andy is not Fred Perry since Fred died in 1995
and Andy was born in 1987, 8 years before Perry died but of
course, it's a very nice thought nonetheless given the eerie
similarities.
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Re: Andy Murray: The Achievement Of The Century
DIR By: Clay Death
Date: December 14, 2013, 8:54 am
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the day andy won Wimbledon:
HTML http://www.independent.co.uk/sport/tennis/the-day-andy-murray-won-wimbledon-9004339.html
Britain had waited 77 years for a men’s singles champion at
SW19. Five interested spectators relive that special afternoon
By Paul Newman Author Biography
Friday 13 December 2013
Andy Murray, who had lost to Roger Federer 12 months earlier,
reached his second successive Wimbledon final after recovering
from two sets down against Fernando Verdasco and a set down
against Jerzy Janowicz. His opponent, Novak Djokovic, the world
No 1 and 2011 champion, had a tougher passage and needed nearly
five hours to beat Juan Martin del Potro in the semi-finals
Greg Rusedski “After Andy won at Queen’s I always thought this
would be his year. Andy’s a better grass-court player than
Djokovic and after winning the Olympics at Wimbledon and losing
to Federer in the final the previous year, he just wasn’t going
to miss this opportunity.”
Judy Murray “I thought this might be Andy’s time. He had the
experience of playing in the final the year before, he had won
the Olympics on the same court and the US Open. But you never
know what it feels like for a player.
“Since Andy was very small Wimbledon has been the thing for him.
After Tim and Greg retired, all the expectation was heaped on
him. I think he handled that unbelievably well, but you can
never know how the emotion or pressure of the occasion is going
to affect him.”
Jamie Murray “Of course I would rather have been on Centre
Court, but I had to be in Stuttgart because we could have played
the next day. I watched with my wife on a computer in our hotel
room because the final wasn’t on TV. I just didn’t want to watch
with other people around.”
An opening point of 18 strokes sets the tone for a match full of
lengthy rallies
Rusedski “From the start I didn’t think Djokovic was the
self-confident guy we’d seen in the past or at the start of this
year. He looked nervous, as though he was affected by the crowd
and the atmosphere.
“Andy got his strategy right immediately. I remember a lot of
forehands cross-court on the run from Andy that kept him in good
stead. And when Andy held his ground, Djokovic made unforced
errors.”
Murray converts his seventh break point to lead 2-1 in the
opening set, but Djokovic breaks back immediately. At 3-3 there
are already 34 minutes on the clock
Tim Henman “Both players looked exhausted after six games.
Throughout the clay-court and grass-court seasons there had been
no really hot weather, but for the final it was so hot. I
remember going around the grounds with Boris Becker beforehand.
We were in our suits and it was uncomfortably hot.
“Given the nervous tension and length of the rallies, it was
brutal for the players. They played only three sets – on a grass
court – but it took three hours and 10 minutes. That emphasised
just how long the rallies were and how tough the games were.”
Murray breaks again in the seventh game and serves out for the
first set. Djokovic breaks to lead 3-1 in the second set after
successive points are decided by a 28-stroke rally and then a
30-stroke rally
Henman “I can’t believe I ever played a grass-court rally that
long. We didn’t even manage 30 shots in the knock-up, when we
were hitting the ball straight at each other.”
Djokovic, upping a gear, goes 4-1 ahead in the second set
Judy Murray “I wasn’t really worried. Breaks of serve are always
likely when Andy and Novak meet. They both have big serves, but
they also read the serves very well and are great returners,
great retrievers, great defenders and anticipators. If they get
broken they always have a chance to break back.”
Jamie Murray “I don’t get as nervous watching Andy as he says he
does watching me – probably because I get to watch a lot more of
his matches than he does mine. I’ve watched him so many times
and his record in the Slams has been so good for so long.”
David Spearing “Ivan Lendl usually sits right in front of me.
I’m impressed how he stays so calm. When Andy hits a good shot,
others might get very excited but the most Lendl does is pat his
hand on the parapet in front of him. I think he’s made a big
difference since he became his coach.
“In the past Murray would at times turn to the box and express
himself in language that perhaps he shouldn’t. I felt his body
language handed an advantage to his opponent. But in the last
two years he has become more mature and doesn’t get as excited.”
From 1-4 down, Murray recovers to win the second set 7-5
Judy Murray “My two brothers and their wives had driven down for
the end of the tournament. My mum had sent down a tin of her
shortbread and at the end of the second set my brother started
passing it round. I was secretly furious with him because he was
getting comfortable. They’re obviously not as caught up in it as
I am.
“I was sitting on the edge of my seat and as he was passing the
shortbread along I was thinking: ‘We’re not on a day trip here.
This is the biggest match of his life.’ I just looked at my
brother, but he didn’t have a clue what my look meant. I didn’t
take any of the shortbread.
“I don’t speak to anybody when I’m watching. I get in my own
little zone. I don’t like people speaking to me and probably
nobody likes sitting next to me because I’m not good company
during matches. I get totally focused on what Andy or Jamie are
doing.”
Murray goes 2-0 up in the third set, having won eight of the
last nine games. Djokovic wins the next four games before Murray
breaks for the sixth and seventh time to lead 5-4
Jamie Murray “There were some great rallies. When you watch the
top players, the level is so high at certain points that you
just wonder how they do it. I can’t imagine what it takes to
stay calm in those moments and still produce such amazing shots,
time after time.”
Murray, leading 5-4, serves for the Wimbledon title. He goes
40-0 up
Henman “Andrew Castle, Boris and myself were commentating. We
were all incredibly nervous. After the first point I think I
said: ‘One down, three to go.’ Andy won the next point and
Andrew said: ‘Two down, two to go.’ Andy won the third point and
we were waiting for Boris – only for him to go off on one.
Before you knew it, the score was back to deuce.”
Djokovic forces three break points, the second after his
half-volley hits the top of the net and tumbles over for a
winner
Judy Murray “I’ve never been more nervous than in that final
game. This was the biggest prize and I knew how much it had hurt
Andy to lose last year and how much he wanted to win this one. I
knew how hard he had worked over many, many years. I could hear
my heart going. I thought to myself: ‘This could be the end of
me. I just want this to be over’.”
Rusedski “If Andy had lost that game it could have got very
interesting. It could have got very ugly very quickly. But Andy
was too tough for him and he just wasn’t going to allow that to
happen. The other factor was the crowd. You’ve never heard an
atmosphere like it on Centre Court. It was so one-sided.”
Murray creates his fourth match point and converts it when
Djokovic nets a backhand. His 6-4, 7-5, 6-4 victory gives
Britain a Wimbledon men’s singles champion for the first time in
77 years
Judy Murray “I saw Andy celebrating at the other end. Then I saw
him coming towards the net and I was gone. I was crying. Leon
put his arm round me. He was saying: ‘Judy, Judy, look – your
son’s just won Wimbledon! Look, for God’s sake, look! You don’t
want to miss this moment.’
“I grew up in a household where my mum literally sat in front of
the telly for two weeks during Wimbledon. We ate salad for a
fortnight because nothing was cooked while Wimbledon was on.
Wimbledon was just something you saw on the telly for two weeks
of the year. I never would have dreamed that both my kids would
win Wimbledon titles.”
Spearing “I moved into a position to block people coming down
into the box and stood beside Judy Murray to allow her to join
the rest of the team, but she didn’t. Andy climbed into the box
and embraced everyone and then went to climb back down. I think
Judy was overcome by the whole thing, so I called out: ‘Andy!
Your mother!’ That’s when he looked up, climbed back into the
box and embraced her. I was pleased that I had saved him from a
faux pas of greeting everybody except his dear mother.”
Judy Murray “Part of me wanted to go down and join the others in
the box but part of me was also thinking: For years I’ve had to
deal with this talk about me being a pushy mum, so the last
thing I was going to do was run down and say: ‘What about me?’
But when he turned back of course I had to go down. All he said
was: ‘Hi Mum’.”
Jamie Murray “It was a shame I wasn’t there, but I would rather
he won and I wasn’t there than be there and see him lose. I was
so happy for him. It’s hard to explain how much pressure he’s
handled over the years. Other guys don’t have that pressure,
trying to win their home Grand Slam.
“For me it was all a bit surreal – watching your brother play in
a Wimbledon final in a hotel in Stuttgart on a tiny computer
screen. And Stuttgart? We lost in the first round.”
Henman “I had always felt this was Andy’s time, but at the end
of the day he still had to deliver. To beat the world’s best
player to win Wimbledon, it doesn’t get much better than that.”
When British dreams came true: The cast list
The champion’s mother, watched the final from the row behind the
players’ boxes sitting next to Leon Smith, Britain’s Davis Cup
captain
The champion’s brother, watched on a computer in Stuttgart,
where he was playing in a tournament
Was in the BBC TV commentary box. The former world No 4,
runner-up at last week’s Statoil Masters Tennis at the Royal
Albert Hall, played in four Wimbledon semi-finals
Played in this year’s over-35s tournament at the All England
Club and watched from the Royal Box. He reached one Wimbledon
quarter-final
The 77-year-old is the longest-serving Wimbledon steward, having
worked there since 1974. He has been in charge of the players’
boxes, where the entourages sit, for 15 years
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