Murray loses French warm-up

Eurosport - Thu, 21 May 13:29:00 2009

British number one Andy Murray suffered a narrow defeat to Frenchman Paul-Henri Mathieu in the Guinot-Mary Cohr exhibition event in Paris.

TENNIS Andrew Murray is annoyed during match against Rafael Nadal at Monte Carlo Masters. Murray lost to France's Paul-Henri Mathieu in a Paris warm-up tournament ahead of the French Open - 0

Murray, recently named world number three, lost 4-6 7-6(5) 8-10 (champions tie-break) at the Golf and Country Club as he prepares for next week's French Open at Roland Garros, also in the nation's capital.

In the opening set, play went with serve until Mathieu broke at 4-5.

Mathieu overcame two break points in the second before earning a match point of his own with Murray serving at 4-5.

But Murray survived and won the subsequent tie-break 7-5, which took the match to a champions tie-break.

"I arrived yesterday at 12 at night so the body was a bit stiff, but it was good to get some points on the clay and to get used to the weather, which is a bit better than at home," Scotland's Murray said on his website.

"It's just a bit stiff - I had a little problem the last couple of days so I didn't want to chase down every ball because I want to make sure I'm okay for next week."

Guinot Mary Cohr Masters: Rafael Nadal and Roger Federer play in a French Open warm-up event: From 12.30pm on May 20-22 LIVE on British Eurosport 2 (Sky 412, Virgin Media 525); Also available on your PC via the Eurosport Player - click on the link under the picture to subscribe

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  1. It was a meaningless exhibition, i can't believe­ people are reading so much in to it.

    From lucymiff, on Fri 22 May 4:08AM

  2. I watched the match and was amazed at the total lack of­ committment by this boy. He needs a new coach and a new­ outlook because this sort of tennis is unnaceptable

    From Rob, on Thu 21 May 5:29PM

  3. **POST 53 THE FRENCH OPEN DOESN'T START "NEXT­ WEEK" ATTAHA but on SUNDAY!!!!!!!Besides the­ weather forecasts are so-so,sunny but dark­ clouds,t°:min 11°/max 22°,not too windy either**

    From Jeremy, on Thu 21 May 4:21PM

  4. I watched it as well AJ,I can't agree­ more...He's very fortunate in life,being a pro­ tennis player is fab but as usual, he looks so jaded at­ such a young age...I like you much people of the UK,but­ I hate Murray, can't help it.He's a hateful­ bloke.

    From Jeremy, on Thu 21 May 2:55PM

  5. Pete and Andre to play on my birthday well done guys­ would love to see that match.
    I watched Andy Murray­ match yesterday his play wasn't that good he looked­ like he couldn't care less.His interview after the­ match was even worse.

    From AJ, on Thu 21 May 2:28PM

  6. **PETE SAMPRAS TO PLAY ANDRE AGASSI IN A EXHIBITION­ MATCH IN MACAU ON 25 OCTOBER 2009.THEY WILL BE PLAYING­ IN FRONT OF 15 000 PEOPLE**

    From Jeremy, on Thu 21 May 1:25PM

  7. Guinot Mary Cohr exhibition schedule:

    THURSDAY 21 may­ - from 12.30(british time)

    *Roger Federer VS Stanislas­ Wawrinka

    *Rafael Nadal VS Arnaud Clément

    FRIDAY 22­ may - from 12.30(british time)

    *David Nalbandian(???)­ VS Tommy Haas

    *Marat Safin VS James Blake

    From Jeremy, on Thu 21 May 1:18PM

  8. "mais_siam, if you think Djokovic's and­ Nadal's­ reduction of time they take to serve would­ increase­ Murray's chances of winning a Slam and­ especially­ RG then you are absolutely clueless. If­ only a Slam­ could be won that way..."
    uh, are you­ serious? What is this? Its so obvious. If djokovic and­ nadal has less chance to win a grand slam if they would­ follow the rules, who would then have more chance? Its­ SOO obvious, SOO obvious math, how can you get it so­ wrong?Disgustingly clueless.
    Thats funny, so how do­ you think a grand slam is won?

    From Hans G, on Thu 21 May 12:38PM

  9. whoreretarded much viktor? Try talking about his post­ atleast in the slightest way when reffering to his­ post.

    From Hans G, on Thu 21 May 12:33PM

  10. Scottish,English,Welsh,irish???? who cares!! i­ supported henman and i'm scottish! murray's the­ only decent player BRITAIN have got to shout about so­ do the decent thing and get behind him!!

    From fwtrueblu81, on Thu 21 May 11:49AM

  11. Post 52. What a load of @#$%! No modern Scot­ "despises" the English as you put it! The­ ancient comment from Murray about supporting­ "anyone but England" in the world cup is­ surely recognised as friendly banter by most folk south­ of the border. The phrase was hardly coined by Murray­ and anyone who holds it against him is utterly ignorant­ and clearly has absolutely no sporting background­ whatsoever! Have you never ever heard the joke about­ supporting your team and whoever is playing your rival­ team? I think it's more of a football thing but you­ would still support those players of your opposing team­ if they were selected in the national side. Sure I­ understand that in tennis you don't always support­ a player just because they are from the same country­ especially if you actually play the game but that's­ the same for any sport. This anti Scottish/ English­ @#$% is so out of date though, get over it!!!!

    From squigglepup, on Thu 21 May 11:43AM
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    Murray has stated why he lost in the opening set; he­ was stiff, he was trying not to chase every ball­ preparing for next week french open.. this is tactical­ withdrawal instead of winning the match and going to­ next oponent..so why are we criticising this world no 3­ british no 1? No need he did the perfect match by­ loosing to avoid $75,000 fine for withdrawal.. serena­ did the same in her opening game.. the difference­ between these two is that serena is an established­ winner of GS while murray is a pretender with his­ typical british excuseses ; wheather obstruction,­ bodily pain, lack of sleep, acclamatisation to the new­ environment and hotels food, all these affect british­ no1 world no 3..typical

    From Augustine A, on Thu 21 May 11:03AM
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    Scotlandd is in Britain so for the Scots....buy a map. ­ Murray despises the English...so the English despise­ Murray...simple. :-)

    From CL'OYSTERS, on Thu 21 May 9:27AM

  14. Give Murray a break will ya? Anyone here who could name­ a player with no bad days and unlikely losses? Even­ Federer at his peak lost some matches. BTW - I'm­ not British and so glad about it. All this useless @#$%­ about the best player in your own country...

    From Vladimir Z, on Thu 21 May 5:37AM

  15. andy willdo well to get to last four.best of british.

    From iancampbell11, on Thu 21 May 12:17AM

  16. Its just a warm up anyway,the real test stars Monday.

    From kirovrtanoski, on Wed 20 May 11:39PM

  17. As far as I remember, for the first Murray beat Federer­ in Cinncynati 2007 or 2006 when Roger was in his best.­ Now we can see that it was not accidentаlly

    From siskra83, on Wed 20 May 11:09PM

  18. We haven't seen the draw yet, who knows what would­ be more interesting, Murray (Djokovic) in Nadal's­ or Federer's draw?!

    From siskra83, on Wed 20 May 11:00PM

  19. I'm not british but i love Andy Murray. But why­ can't these jealous british people specially­ english people accept that at present they have a very­ good tennis player like Andy Murray? He may be scottish­ but who cares? he represents britania, and britania­ will rule the world because of him! Come on guys he­ needs our support!

    From marlon m, on Wed 20 May 10:39PM

  20. murray is just not ready yet to compete on clay. roger­ might have caught a break by having murray seeded 3 at­ RG since novak will present nadal with much more of a­ challenge on clay than murray would for roger.

    From football4life, on Wed 20 May 10:37PM
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