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chavkev


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I remember when he pulled out of RG in the season that he won Wimbledon for the second time. He basically went straight to Wimbledon to practice. The Daily Mail (of course) grassed him up and questions were asked how come he was fit to do a fortnight's training block on the grass but wasn't fit enough for RG.

Hopefully he gets himself a tough draw at RG and has more time for the grass. Alcaraz on the first Sunday would be ideal.

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chavkev wrote:

I remember when he pulled out of RG in the season that he won Wimbledon for the second time. He basically went straight to Wimbledon to practice. The Daily Mail (of course) grassed him up and questions were asked how come he was fit to do a fortnight's training block on the grass but wasn't fit enough for RG.

Hopefully he gets himself a tough draw at RG and has more time for the grass. Alcaraz on the first Sunday would be ideal.

 Haha and then surbiton a week later ! 



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Feels like we've rolled the clock back 10 years

Andy and Gael running around, chopping and dinking, and occasionally cracking one or two

Andy 5-2

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First set Murray 6-3

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L32:  (WC/5) Andy Murray WR 52 defeated (WC) Gaël Monfils (FRA) WR 322 by 3 & 2  smile

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L16:  (WC/5) Andy Murray WR 52 vs (ALT) Laurent Lokoli (FRA) WR 187 (CH = 167 in February)



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Andy was 6-4 5-2* up.

It's now 6-4 5-7 *2-2

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L16:  (WC/5) Andy Murray WR 52 vs (ALT) Laurent Lokoli (FRA) WR 187 by 6-4 5-7 6-3 n two hours & 43 minutes

Took him several attempts to convert a breakpoint in the eighth game of that third set.  He converted his SIXTH match point finally to get the win!

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QF:  (WC/5) Andy Murray WR 52 vs Luca van Assche (FRA) WR 86 (= CH)

The Belgium-born Frenchman is only 18, but seems to have the aficionados drooling at his talent...



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Stircrazy wrote:

L16:  (WC/5) Andy Murray WR 52 vs (ALT) Laurent Lokoli (FRA) WR 187 by 6-4 5-7 6-3 n two hours & 43 minutes

Took him several attempts to convert a breakpoint in the eighth game of that third set.  He converted his SIXTH match point finally to get the win!

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QF:  (WC/5) Andy Murray WR 52 vs Luca van Assche (FRA) WR 86 (= CH)

The Belgium-born Frenchman is only 18, but seems to have the aficionados drooling at his talent...

 Andy well on top here , 6-2 first set 



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Andy missing loads of chances to break and take the match and it's now 5-5 second set.

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Luca evidently not wily enough to get the better of Andy, though he didn't have it all his own way in the tie-break:

QF:  (WC/5) Andy Murray WR 52 defeated Luca van Assche (FRA) WR 86 by 6-2 7-6(6)



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Andy was certainly very excited and fired up to win at the end of that, good to see. Maybe clay isnt such a write off! One more win will see him move into the top 50 in fact!

Plays winner of Bublik or Mayot in semis. Tommy Paul and David Goffin in other.

PS Mayot is an LL and is 5-1 up on Bublik

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SF:  (WC/5) Andy Murray WR 52 vs (LL) Harold Mayot (FRA) WR 241 (CH = 237 last month)

Mayot beat both Nakashima (2) & Bublik (6) on his way to the semi...



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Two lucky losers in semi finals in diffferent tournaments over the same weekend must be unusual. I think most observers enjoy the underdog having some success. 

So should Andy be playing the clay court season?  My view is that it is very much his choice.  He knows how his body is feeling. I don't think it takes a seasoned pro like Andy more than a a week and a couple of matches to fully transition to a diffferent surface. 



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First set to Andy 7-5

We've had quite a lot of stuff about Mayot on here before ....

Allez Andy !

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SF:  (WC/5) Andy Murray WR 52 defeated (LL) Harold Mayot (FRA) WR 241 by 5 & 1 in an hour & 41 minutes  smile



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