Andy Murray

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Current ranking: 42

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

Next tournament: Roland Garros

37 Comments on Andy Murray

  1. The damage is done now, Andy has lost the affection of the English, which was very grudging in the first place, for good. He made a joke about supporting anyone but the English in the WC in 2004 and it took a decade for them to forgive him.

    Andy won Wimbledon as a Brit so we can still claim that Britain doesn’t have to wait for a Fred Perry successor.

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  2. If the vote is a No, the ripple effect changes will be massive, and continue for at least a decade. Economic changes, and not just to GB. Catalonia’s bid to vote for independence gaining a big boost… they’ve been anticipating a long time the result of today’s vote. Same for a number of other regions in Europe. And so on.

    I thought I’d share some tennis related comments :-).

    I am simply struck by how enormously important today’s outcome will be… if it is a Yes vote. We here in Canada remember the Quebec separation referendum in 1995. I don’t believe that one was binding the way today’s is, but it was very tense. And the polls, and the actual result were very close to 50%. No, conspiraquebecer, I am not trying to have a debate as to whether it would be better for quebec to separate or not :-).

    #Stick2Tennis

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  3. He won’t get booed.

    They’ll just cheer against him whenever he plays Fed.

    So, it’s like a passive aggressive ‘boo’. You know, like when Rafa plays Fed at the French Open.

    #StatusQuo
    #DoYou?

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  8. Mirror,UK:
    ¤¤ Scotland has voted ‘no’ to independence, after millions of voters took to the polls to decide the future of the United Kingdom.
    The vote was split at 55.4% to 44.7%, with 28 out of the 32 council areas voting No, and four voting Yes.¤¤

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  9. So Andy spoke out and showed his hand. In doing so he bravely put his principles before self-interest. but all in vain. Sadly he will probably feel the repercussions for some time to come. As Nadline pointed out yesterday, it took 10 years for him to be rehabilitated after what many people perceived as an anti-English stance.

    #KeepPoliticsOutOfTennis

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    • Simon Briggs of The Telegraph writes eloquently on the subject of Andy’s support for the YES campaign………….

      “So how about setting up a third position? How about showing some appreciation for a man who speaks as he finds, and who makes his own decisions without first cross-checking them with his agent, financial advisor, shirt sponsor, coach and psychologist?

      “Top-class sport is characterised by vast wealth, superficial glamour and precious little moral fibre. Footballers may not have read Machiavelli, but they know about putting the end before the means, whether through the professional foul or the calculated sulk.

      “Murray sometimes seems an odd fit for this world. Indeed, one suspects he would have been an odd fit for any world. He is prickly, he is gauche, he possesses a droning voice that can put you to sleep at 50 paces. But he is also principled.

      “When he sent his revelatory tweet, a little after 1am on Thursday morning, he was not thinking about what it would do for his brand. He was hoping that he might be able to make a difference. Just as he is already making a difference by paying a huge annual tax bill when he could profitably relocate to Monaco. Just as he has already made a difference by purchasing and regenerating the Cromlix Hotel, a once-derelict country house near his home town.”

      Link to the full article
      http://tinyurl.com/k85t7sp

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      • All one has to do is read the comments section of any of these types of articles and then know why so many athletes prefer to not publicly state their opinions. In this case it happens to be an English/Scottish issue, but it could be anything. The freely expressed vitriol, bigotry, and hatred in the comments has become commonplace on the internet. I’m hoping that the repercussions for Andy are minimal.

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      • What this article describes about Andy is all one piece with everything I’ve ever come across and thought about him.

        #MoralFibre
        #Decent

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  11. I hope Muzza loses the fake English (or British, whatever) fans, he deserves better. He is better. He has enough money already to retire a very comfortable man, shouldn’t compromise “himself” for a few pieces of silver.

    #Integrity

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  13. @jpw
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    Interestingly on the same day as the Briggs’ article which garnered some pretty obnoxious comments The Guardian published a blog on the subject of trolling:

    Extract:
    –––Trolling is a status-enhancing activity: by attracting readers’ attention, upsetting people, sparking heated debates, and even gaining approval from others, trolls can feel important, perhaps much more than they are in their real lives. Thus trolling is yet another internet activity that promotes narcissistic motives, since trolls may be expected to be far less successful in attracting people’s attention in the physical world. The only effective antidote to their tactics is to ignore them, but even then trolls won’t suffer a public humiliation because nobody knows who they are. This is what makes trolling so ubiquitous – it requires no skills other than the ability to be obnoxious.

    So, how can trolls be managed? As recent reviews have shown, sites, editors and authors can take concrete measures to minimise trolling. Disabling anonymity, moderating comments and banning offenders, as well as predicting whether an article is likely to promote trolling, are all effective steps. There is often a thin line between wanting to drive traffic and enticing trolling, so content editors and site managers must act responsibly and beware of the consequences of pushing for too much controversy–––

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  15. Exactly. He’s not gone beyond QFs all this year apart from RG (in itself
    weird since it’s considered his least good surface) and his only win this season against a top 10 player came against Tsonga.

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  16. I think Andy should have held his tongue no matter how tempting it was to come out for the Yes vote. Worthy though it is, he will not enjoy the backlash.

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  18. Li NA put it aptly in her retirement statement: “Be the bird that sticks out”. Yes, the bird that sticks out runs the risk of being shot, but there is the freedom of soaring above dreary expectations and phony restrictions below. For the best amongst us it’s a no brainer.

    #Courage

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