“It is a good opportunity for me, I can challenge him once again in a Wimbledon game”.
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With the men’s final at Wimbledon and the climax of soccer’s European Championship in Paris both on July 10, the French will be hoping to scoop all the sporting silverware a week on Sunday.
Ex-US Open champion Marin Cilic takes on Sergiy Stakhovsky who knocked Federer out of Wimbledon on 2013.
In Murray’s favour is that he has never lost a set on grass to Djokovic and has Ivan Lendl, the coach who guided him to two slam titles and Olympic gold, back in his corner.
‘This will be my 11th Wimbledon and I would say it feels different to when I first played. I think offensively was good. Off court he’s brilliant.
“For a first match, to get it done in three sets is good”.
But after a quick start against fellow Brit Liam Broady on Tuesday, the 2013 champion continued his impressive start to the tournament by beating the Chinese Taipei star 6-3 6-2 6-1 in one hour and 40 minutes. Clay is not my best surface. Obviously Roger’s a massive, massive favourite, and I would expect him to win the match fairly comfortably. I was just a lot more focused and in my own little bubble.
Rafter says Novak Djokovic is the man to beat.
It’s been three years since Murray’s Wimbledon triumph.
Andy Murray is showing second round opponent Yen-Hsun Lu full respect in spite of the evidence that his opponent has become the Scot’s Oriental lucky charm.
Andy Murray will look to get his Wimbledon campaign off to a successful start when he takes on fellow local Liam Broady.
But it may not be good news for hundreds of fans who have camped out to see the world number two play, as rain clouds are expected to make their way over SW19 by the afternoon. He has won 15 of the 16 matches he has played on grass in the last month, having recently returned to competition following a lengthy break with an elbow injury.
By turns urging herself on and telling herself off, Williams eventually secured match point when her opponent just missed a lob and sealed victory after challenging a wrong call when her shot landed on the far baseline.
“The first thing is we need to improve the prize money at Futures level”, Murray said. “I had a couple of long matches to start the tournament”, Murray continued.
The six-time champion barely served any better than the 148th-ranked Sadikovic, who was making her main draw debut in a Grand Slam at the age of 27. H e won the title that year so now for me there is nothing to lose.
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The same could be said of the Scot, of course, especially at his “home” grand slam at the All England Club, where he’s produced some of his very best tennis.
