Andy Murray

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Current ranking: 42

Last result: Rome first round (lost to Fabio Fognini)

Next tournament: Roland Garros

23 Comments on Andy Murray

  1. Muzans, here is something you can ask Santa to put in your Christmas stocking:

    Andy Murray: Seventy-Seven: My Road to Wimbledon Glory [Hardcover]

  2. @nadline
    Did you queue for 4 hours in the rain outside Waterstones on Wednesday, to get a wee chat and a signature?
    #ProbablyNot
    #:)

    • No, I couldn’t even if I wanted to, as I am in Dubai atm, looking forward to queuing in the sunshine in Abu Dhabi for Rafa to sign his autobiography for me at the exho in December.

      I was within touching distance of Andy last year in AD but didn’t bother to get his autograph. Each to her own, as they say.

  3. Police arrest gang suspected of brandishing gun at Murray – only to discover they were autograph hunters with a tennis racquet.

    By Mike Dawes
    PUBLISHED: 00:19 GMT, 9 November 2013 | UPDATED: 01:02 GMT, 9 November 2013

    Armed police swooped on a gang suspected of brandishing a gun at Andy Murray – only to discover they were tennis fans who had asked the Scot to sign a tennis racquet.
    The mix up occurred in north London on Wednesday night when the Scot was in a car with his agent.

    It is understood that two men got out of another car and knocked on the window of Murray’s vehicle in an attempt to get him to sign a racquet, but the Wimbledon champion drove away.

    Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/tennis/article-2493988/Andy-Murray-gun-scare-Police-arrest-gang-suspected-brandishing-gun-star–discover-autograph-hunters-

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  4. RT @Mike_Dickson_DM: “Andy Murray’s plans to return to public tennis action at next week’s Dream Cup in Barbados scuppered as event has been cancelled. Not connected to any injury setback for Murray, was ready to play but local promoters hit problems and other players withdrew.”

  5. Andy Murray’s return to tournament action has been delayed after the Dream Cup in Barbados was cancelled.

    The exhibition event, which was due to start on 28 November, would have provided the Wimbledon champion with his first matches since he had back surgery in September. Issues reportedly to do with sponsorship and TV mean the tournament will no longer take place.

    Murray will instead continue to practise at his winter training base in Miami, where his return to full fitness is said to be on track.

    The 26-year-old’s first match will now come at another exhibition in Abu Dhabi at the end of December. He will then begin his ATP World Tour season at the Qatar Open in Doha before heading to Australia.

    Murray has not yet committed to playing in the Australian Open and said last month he would take part only if he felt in good enough shape to have a chance of winning the tournament.

    He elected to have surgery on a long-standing back problem after helping Great Britain reach the Davis Cup World Group with victory over Croatia in mid-September.

    The issue had been troubling him for around 18 months and he pulled out of the French Open in May before going unbeaten through the grass-court season, culminating in his historic Wimbledon triumph.

    The Guardian

  6. – “We should all be as good as Murray was in 2013 with a back so compromised that it required surgery” –

    So said Peter Bodo In his preview for the PoY award. He has put in words the thought I have had on several occasions ever since he announced he was going to have surgery on his back. Looking back one now realises how often he must have been hurting: it was particularly noticeable between points when often he seemed to walk awkwardly back to the service line.

    If he can win Wimbledon with a dodgy back, what is he capable of now he is pain free?

    • Well ed., ’tis the season to be jolly, so I think I’ll join you! Most appropriately, I believe yours is a Scotch.
      #BottomsUp

  7. ^^Ed: That sentence just underscores the enormous pressure to which Andy was subjected. He must’ve felt equal parts relief and joy when he won. I’m happy for him that he was able to do it.

  8. It doesn’t get better than this:

    “Andy Murray, whose historic Wimbledon Championships triumph in the summer won the admiration of a nation, was given a new sense of the extent to which he has also captivated British hearts in 2013 as the Scot was crowned BBC Sports Personality of the Year with the most emphatic triumph in the award’s history.

    To no one’s great surprise, the shortest-priced favourite in the award’s 59-year annals, thanks to his landmark victory against Novak ­Djokovic on that historic July afternoon on Centre Court, was rewarded with the famous old camera trophy.
    However, the measure of his landslide victory was that, for the first time, the winner received more votes than the rest of the 10 contenders put together. Nobody had before won the trophy with more than 50 per cent of the poll but Murray received 401,470 votes, almost 56 per cent of the total online and phone poll of 717,454.”

  9. Didn’t watch the SPOTY Awards so am a bit confused. The Awards ceremony was in London, Muzza was and still is, in Miami. They announce the winner, in London and Muzza is pictured, in Miami, with his winners’ trophy thereafter. Was he in on a secret? Did he know he was the winner before hand?

    http://instagram.com/p/h9WuofIhp8/#

    Congratulations Muzza!

  10. Is this supposed to clear up my (and a lot of other people’s, it would appear) confusion?

    RT @GBtennis: “Do people moaning SPOTY was a fix because the trophy was already in Miami not realise the BBC have a few trophies ready ‘just in case’? #doh”

    #NOT

    A few trophies ready? Bollocks! This was totally unnecessary, Muzza could have been presented with THE trophy on his next visit to London, happens that way in most Awards shows. Now all this does is make it look like Muzza knew all along he had won….

  11. @RITB
    Ceremony actually came from Leeds. I believe Andy was handed a replica by Martina, to whom he paid a really nice compliment and Judy, resplendent in tartan trews, picked up the real one.
    Voting took place on the night only. I don’t know how it could’ve been rigged, unless people are suggesting the Beeb tampered with the votes. Seems unlikely to me.

    • Thanks for the clarification @deucy. The confusion, and subsequent suspicions of rigging, stem from the sight of Muzza being given the replica trophy, milesaway, in real-time. I mean, the Award announcers did not say, “Now, Martina presenting Andy with a replica trophy!” did they? How were people to know it was a replica? And did they make replica trophies for all the nominees?

      Everyone knows Muzza was the heavy favourite to win but there was absolutely no need for the organisers to prepare for such a farce, because that is what it turned out to be, with this fake trophy thing.

      Everyone knows Muzza could not attend in person because he was training in Miami.

      It’s not as if people would have said Muzza did not win because they did not see him being handed the trophy! This was an awards show, not a post-match trophy presentation.

      As it is, the whole thing seemed contrived, set-up and Muzza did not deserve that tbh because he truly deserved this award. The organisers pulled off this stunt to serve their own interests, tacky. This was the organisers trying to be cute………… So what’s Muzza supposed to do with the fake, throw it in the bin?

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