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Montanes v Murray

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by Paul Fletcher (U1816326) 06 January 2009
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Andy Murray begins his defence of Qatar Open buoyed by his recent victories over both Roger Federer and Rafael Nadal.

Murray takes on Spain's Albert Montanes, ranked 43 in the world, in Tuesday's first-round match.

Do you see any problems for Murray against Montanes and how big a year do you think 2009 will be for the Scot?

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posted Jan 6, 2009

Easy mistake to make Duggie, he converts the greenhouse Miagi grows all his bonzai trees in into an indoor court for practicing there as well.

LaRusso has a plan for everything, the meticulous little so and so.

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posted Jan 6, 2009

Looked like just another day in the office for Murray, as tbh I see tomorrow and Thursday being too. It will be very interesting once he gets to the potential semifinal vs Federer. The key thing will be beating both Federer and Nadal back to back once again. If he can and defend his title, that will give him such a boost of confidence I would actually put him as favourite for the Australian Open, despite it being a best of 5, because he would be by far the most in form player on the planet.

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posted Jan 6, 2009

The standards on these forums is grim! I'll try another.

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posted Jan 6, 2009

The standards on these forums is grim! I'll try another.

Joined 29/12 ? Bye Bye smiley

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posted Jan 6, 2009

Oh and thanks for all the articles and the 5 posts..........

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posted Jan 6, 2009

Thanks. I would have thought you would have wanted another contributor, but...

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posted Jan 6, 2009

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regarding nadal training on grass,im sure i heard he had grass court made in his garden in Spain,just so he could improve,thats the signs of player who always wants to improve and only him and probably Sampras in his prime could have defeated Federer in last years wimbledon final

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Mate Nadal hasn't improved that much on grass. It simply isn't humanly possible. In case you never saw the wimbledon final last year, they showed that the bounce of the ball has increased by significant amounts since 2003. That is why Nadal keeps improving there.

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posted Jan 6, 2009

whilst we're on dodgey bbc facts, has anyone noticed that jamie murrays new partner is Vemi (reffered to as such twice)

and not Vemic?

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posted Jan 7, 2009

Hey Duggie, not being a bit harsh on theMyersGirl ?

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posted Jan 7, 2009

Not trying to be SH - but I do get a bit irritated when people just come on to moan about other posters.... after just a few days.

"The standards on these forums is grim! I'll try another."

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