Against very good players, he finds a way.
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He said: “If it itches too much, I’ll take it off. If my girls can’t stand it, I’ll take it off. If I look in the mirror and I don’t like it, I’ll take it off”. I need to keep working so hard to try to keep going the same way.
Murray said: “Just tell Aljaz you haven’t made the decision and don’t have him fly all the way over to Prague just to tell him you haven’t decided”. “I feel I am enjoying it on court. So that’s what I’ll do”.
Against Ferrer at the O2 Arena in London, Murray was able to win with plenty of help from the Spaniard’s serve. Besides, Murray also committed four double faults.
On the other hand, Nadal, whose path for the semi-finals was cleared after Wawrinka defeated David Ferrer later that day was happy with the victory. Today I felt free.
Ferrer again provided stubborn resistance in the second set as he raced into a 3-1 lead, before the two-times Grand Slam victor moved through the gears and won five straight games to seal the match.
The Scot saved three break points in the sixth game and then two more in the eighth, but his resistance faltered in the 10th as Nadal broke to love to take the opening set. The two-time grand slam champion prevailed 7-5 6-2 to keep alive his hopes of reaching the semi-final.
“My game start to feel better out there”, Wawrinka was quoted as saying on the Association of Tennis Professionals’ (ATP) website. “And I would imagine for Leon that is pretty frustrating, the way it has all worked out”. Perry was also the last British man to win the men’s title at Wimbledon that same year, until Murray came along.
World number one Novak Djokovic, Roger Federer, Murray, Stan Wawrinka, Rafa Nadal, Tomas Berdych, Nishikori, and David Ferrer have all qualified for the World Tour finals.
“I had one bad game, the first one of the match”, said Nadal, a two-time finalist at the season-ending tournament. “But then immediately I was playing well”.
But for now their dominance remains and Federer, who had converted all of his six break points, buried a smash to make it 51 wins in 14 appearances at the tournament. So I don’t see it as an issue, just very good preparation.
While the incident captured the attention of the modern media cycle, Murray correctly pointed out that of far more relevance to the defeat was a first-serve percentage which stood at just 43%.
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“In the second, Wawrinka was playing better”.
