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Brit-Watch: Paris Masters

British Tennis
by Ruggers (U3472595) 26 October 2007
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Andy Murray fell in the quarterfinal stage to drop out of the hunt for a place in Shanghai

This was the sixth consecutive week of competitive tennis for Murray. But he has certainly done very well just to have competed for a top 8 place after missing three months due to injury which included high-scoring opportunties in the Grand Slams and the Masters Series.

Though he bagelled Gasquet, the Frenchman started to cut down on the errors in the third-set, started to play more aggressively while Andy's play became more erratic and he again had a low percentage of first-serves. There is still much to do during the off-season.

Andy Murray [15], Men's Singles

R1: Bye
R2: Nieminen 7-6(5) 6-3
R3: Santoro 6-4 6-2
QF: Gasquet [10] 3-6 6-0 4-6

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posted Nov 3, 2007

Why did you address your last post with a quote from my post then, you ignorant tvat?

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posted Nov 3, 2007

The chip on your shoulder is so big that it looks like an extra head, not that that will make up for the lack of brainpower laugh
Get over being Scottish.

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posted Nov 3, 2007

because you are a cheeky barsteward. we have to listen to how the english are gonna win this and gonna win that and are sick hearing it, we now have a genuine scottish contender who is being slaughtered here doh

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posted Nov 3, 2007

Get over being Scottish

why should i, get over bein an offete ar$..ehole smiley actually dont, you wear the badge well ok

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posted Nov 3, 2007

Well, if it's any consolation, I think he's good. And you should be elated Scotland are getting their time in the sporting limelight, with regards to football and tennis. I wear what badge?

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posted Nov 3, 2007

really wish bigoted people like yourself who live in the 17th Century would shut up because you give me a headache

THIS BADGE doh

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posted Nov 5, 2007

Good to see the usual high-quality debate continuing here, with suitable decorum on all sides.

I seem to recall vierathebest making a prediction prior to Murray's injury in the spring, that he would end the year "closer to 20th in the rankings than the top 10", and yet he doesn't appear to have returned to admit his misjudgement.

Strange...

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posted Nov 5, 2007

Alright, King, how's your new house?

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posted Nov 5, 2007

"Good to see the usual high-quality debate continuing here, with suitable decorum on all sides."

laugh

Welcome back Biscuits, notice that I have created a completely new Picking League just so that I can give A-Rod Cards a trial biggrin You're invited to join of course

http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/606/A28724240

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posted Nov 6, 2007

Dunno if anyone's still following this thread but manners dictate that I say thanks Ruggers, and very nice thank you Henners.

I ended up following the trials and tribulations of Andy Murray during Paris through the newspapers. Each morning I would awake, walk to the bottom of my road, get the paper and check the sports section in the park. Very pleasant. It read like he was really getting back into the groove in some style, but on the morning after the Gasquet match I think I knew what was on the cards when I got my paper, after the 8:30 sports report on Radio 4 had made absolutely no mention of tennis at all...

So near and yet so far, but nevertheless what a storming effort! Two impressive quarters to the year, interspersed with half a year of misery, and yet still on the verges of the top ten. It's worth noting perhaps that he started this year almost unrecognisably better than he was last year, and by some accounts after the return from injury he raised his level once again. I wonder what he'll be like in the New Year. Is a hat-trick of San Jose titles such an unlikely scenario, and there are still points to be had at the Australian for him?

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