Wimbledon - Murray blasts into fourth round
Eurosport - Sun, 28 Jun 11:50:00 2009
World number three Andy Murray produced another sterling display to beat Serbia's Viktor Troicki 6-2 6-3 6-4 and book his place in the fourth round at Wimbledon.
Murray delivered a masterclass from start to finish and will next face Swiss 19th seed Stanislas Wawrinka, who came from a set down to beat American Jesse Levine 5-7 7-5 6-3 6-3.
Murray got off to a steady start but took control of the match in the sixth game, breaking when Troicki slapped down two double faults.
The Scot then broke again two games later to seal the first set when his opponent dumped the ball into the net.
The second set was equally one-sided as Murray broke in just the second game, with a running backhand passing shot, to seize control before taking a two sets to love lead with his 11th and 12th aces of the match.
Troicki offered a little more resistance in the third set but the Serb was always playing catch up after slapping a forehand into the net to concede serve in the first game.
Troicki even held his first, and only, break point of the match in the fourth game but Murray quickly slammed the door shut with an ace and a forehand winner. The Scot threatened again in the seventh and ninth games and Troicki did well to hold on.
But there was nothing he could do when Murray stepped up to serve out the match and the 22-year-old emphatically booked his place in the second week with an ace down the centre of the court.
Murray's performances over the last two years, which have propelled him into the world's top three, have made him a household name in Britain and expectation is building that he can become the nation's latest sporting hero.
Four more performances of the quality he has shown so far would take him tantalisingly close to becoming the first British man to win Wimbledon since Fred Perry 73 years ago but Murray, as always, is taking it all in his stride.
"I'm very happy I won the three matches this week," said Murray. "I hope that I can keep it going next week because my performances were pretty solid."
"(The expectation) is just one of those things you have to get used to dealing with. It hasn't troubled me this week. I'd be very surprised if it did next week."
"I wanted to finish the match as quickly as possible," he added. "It would have been a nice bit of history, I guess, the first match to play under the roof but I wasn't that worried."
"I enjoy playing indoors. But when it's sort of right at the end of the match I wanted to finish it before the rain came."
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Stop being such an idiot you said name a battle that we won and I did. How many more do you want? Are you that insecure?
Do you know when the Romans came most of the English tribes fled to Ireland? So technically most of the Irish and english right?
don't be so desperate and do you know what a white caucasian is? you losers really are insecure about yourselves.
again YOU LIVE UNDER OUR RULE!! ha ha ha ha can't believe you said you didn't! thats why you control your own tax laws right!
your stupid
Stop being such an idiot you said name a battle that we won and I did. How many more do you want? Are you that insecure?
Do you know when the Romans came most of the English tribes fled to Ireland? So technically most of the Irish and english right?
don't be so desperate and do you know what a white caucasian is? you losers really are insecure about yourselves.
again YOU LIVE UNDER OUR RULE!! ha ha ha ha can't believe you said you didn't! thats why you control your own tax laws right!
your stupid
As a SNP supporter, I have to say the English/Scotland is rubbish/is great thing is unbelievably tedious. Please stop it and lets all grow up and start f**king each others minds into Valhalla.
but the French had already conquered you by then, sure Harold got one in the eye, and all your nobles were of French origin.
Inverkenny you don't live under out rule?
then what the hell did Margaret Thatcher do to you in the 1980's if you don't live under our rule you stupid idiot.
Also as for english wars ever heard of the battle of Agincourt you thicko?? there are too many to name
as for being bred out of existence you don't know anything about history do you?
loser!!!
kanespurs why have you ignored my answer to your points? are they still trying to stitch your face up?
Alastair, leave the guy alone, he's obviously bumped into a Scotsman tonight and learned the hard way.
The Scots and English are here again. Maybe Waw can put their mouths shut for a while in the next round? Or will it cause more rage?
Hey Alaister get this through your thick skull
We own you so we own your oil!!
Simple as. You want it take it back! Awwww but you can't can you?? boo hoo that nasty bully england controls you and EVERYTHING THAT YOU OWN!! ha ha ha ha ha ha
bunch of losers!!
Would someone please return kanespurs to whichever village he is missing from?
well said Alastair.
i think you'll find it was our King who sat on your throne, and the act of Union was a joint venture in which we retained our legal system, so no, we dont live under your rule, we have never been conquered, i think it's you that needs the history book, and to your point about Scots fought in the two wars, that's right but we dont go about saying "we won the war", and could you tell me a war england won? by the time the english stopped trying to fight they had been bread out of existence, your all Scots, Irish, German, Dutch, French and Scandinavian.
The Glasgow kiss only delayed the inevitible battering the @#$% Scot got. A few smashed eyes sockets and a broken jaw settled issues thanks!
Also the SNP are going to sell you out to the EU if you get independence. You will just be Brussels b'i't'c'h. The BNP care more about Scotish autonomy then the SNP do. Did you actually research the SNP manifesto for independence or did you just absorb their propaganda like a r'e't.a.r.d?
Hey ROCK 'N' ROLL! Hate to put upset your rather simplistic thesis, but why do you think these "rich English" as you so put it are so rolling in it? Answer? SCOTLAND'S oil! For the last 35 years there has been an official cover-up (the McCrone Report) into the true value of the reserves. Even now, when Westminster is bleating we couldn't make it on our own, new research out shows that with control of our own oil, Scotland would be in surplus. Yes, that's right, SURPLUS! And furthermore, that there are reserves for another 50 years. Think about it! And if Scotland were such a poor, useless country, you can be quite sure Westminster would have cut us adrift a long, long time ago! I suppose we must be useful for something (oil, Trident bases, etc.) so no more lectures please, OK?! Thank you!
Andy, get the saltire back on, your not kidding anyone, your a Murray, the proudest name in Scotland, fly the flag win or lose, this wee nation is watching you, with pride.
Inverkenny you inbred piece of s.h.i.t Scotish people served in WW2 as well you know.
If you Scots whipped our @#$% how come to live under OUR RULE you thick piece of s.h.i.t. There are loads of wars the english have won. Look at a history book you r'e't.a.r.d.
sounds like kanespurs has been the recipient of a Glasgow kiss, come on up, there's plenty more where that came from, Scotland Forever, SNP.
no-one likes england, it doesn't mean we're all racisti think it says more about england, go fight the zulus, oh that was the Welsh, go fight the germans, oh you ran away, the russians and the Americans came to the rescue, is there any war you did fight, oh aye, the Normans whipped your little arses raw, not to mention the Scots.
Whoa just got in from my shift at the pub and all this english/scotish stuff! Wow! this inferior country called Scotland needs to be put back in it's rightfull place as Englands @#$%!
To Elizabeth I read your first comment which set it all off and it does not sound like someone who has been all over the world to me. It was very childish and immature.I smell @#$% here Maybe all over the world as a child going on holiday with your parents maybe. Those school and Uni rankings point out that England has many better educational facilities then Scotland. Sorry you hate facts you stupid @#$%. No-one has heard of Glasgow and edinburgh round the world. Everyone knows Oxford and Cambridge though. This is just a silly argument from an obvioulsy immature person.
Why would Tyrone be ashamed of his country? Well your posts for a start. Scotland isn't all that. Wow you invented the Mars bar supper (Mars bar coated in batter to my english brothers) Scotland is @#$%! sure it has beatifull scenery. So do alot of crappy countrys. It's people have accents so bad I need subtitles to understand them!! and as for Aberdeen being a good uni HA HA HA it's old but it;s @#$%! no-one with a brain ever applys there! You only go there through clearing if you failed exams!! is that you elizabeth! what a loser that 1 thing undid all your credibility!
Alot of bitter scots I have met have got small man syndrome. We just don't care about your @#$% little country of a pathetic few million. Your greatest achievement was being part of England. If you want your oil so much take it back by force! oh but you can't because your small and outnumbered and are a bunch of scared chickenshit @#$%!!! what cowards and in a fight scotish people fight dirty all the time. Tyring to head butt you all the time. Natural cowards with no balls
nick pozzo, when someone says they dont want england to win a football match, or they just hope the other team wins, how does that make them racist? should everyone want england to win? if your not english your racist? i would never call you a racist for not wanting Andy Murray to win a game of tennis, that's just your wish, it doesn't make you racist, the word "racist" gets banded about here willy nilly, lets remember what racism is, and not complicate it, and just for the record i hope england get shafted at everything, and Andy wins wimbledon, go on, fire away.
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