Andy Murray Looking to pass Rafael Nadal and Roger Federer in French Open
Andy Murray Looks To Ends Britain’s Slams Misery. Britain’s No.1 Andy Murray is determined to establish his proficiency not only in the hard courts but in the famous clay courts as well, or maybe even on the French Open. Although he is more often marked as a better player on a fast surface, the Scottish jock claims that he can do equally well in the clay courts since he trained and offered a “big sacrifice” in the- courts of Sánchez-Casal Academy at the age of 15 and is now working really hard with fitness experts to improve on the surface.
It is apparent that Murray’s start was not that easy. He may had won 3 times between the end of February 2006 until mid-June and grabbed trophies consecutively at the Nottingham Open, but playing against the top players like David Ferrer, current French 2nd best player Gael Monfils and Italian Andreas Seppi during those times was not that easy. In 2008, he defeated Feliciano Lopez nad Filippo Volandri and won his games against Novak Djokovic.
Later that year, while he was No. 4 in the world, he was hailed the first British to have reached the grand slam final since Greg Rusedski in 1997 and qualified for the Masters Cup for the very first time. Some of the best in clay court tennis, James Bake, Roger Federer and Spanish Rafael Nadal were beaten by Andy as a start-up for his 2009. Thereafter, he succeeded in the Qatar Open, winning in straight rounds including a victory over Federer at 6-7, 6-2, 6-2 and former World No.1 Andy Roddick for the finals. At the Australian Open in 2009, he seeded fourth before losing to Fernando Verdasco in the fourth round.
Murray failed to come home at once after the 2009 Australian Open when he was diagnosed for having a viral infection which recurred later, causing his late withdrawal from the quarter finals in Dubai in which he was supposed to be in the lead. He too backed off in the semi finals of the Marseille Open which he won in 2008 due to an injury before the recurrence. Moreover, he experienced a set of consistent loses against Croatian Marin Cilic after a wrist injury during the U.S. Open during that same year.
A wild card clay match which the defensive counter puncher requested at the Monte-Carlo Rolex Masters this year helped him retain his No. 4 ranking against one of his tight opponents, Argentine Juan Martin Del Potro but when he entered the 2nd round of the singles division, he suffered a 6-2 6-1 defeat to Philipp Kohlschreiber causing him to eventually lose the rank to Del Potro and fall to No.5. Although he has admittedly been suffering the biggest downfall of his career, he returned to his winning ways by winning over Andreas Seppi at 6-2, 6-4. Andy Murray astounded fans and opponent, RomanianVictor Hanescu for his spectacular 6-2 6-1 victory at the Madrid Masters men’s singles thrid round. He relates during an interview totting up his performance, "Once I got through that, I started to feel better. I hit the ball well and there were some good rallies. Everything was good - I returned well, moved well and I thought I hit the ball well from the back of the court.”
But with all his satisfactory performances will it be enough to say they he is capable of upholding his title not only as one of the World’s best in clay court tennis but also as one of the happiest twitstar in twitte, as labeled by researchers of the University of Edinburgh right after this year’s French Open?
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