Greg Rusedski says Andy Murray will not be able to win Sports Personality Award – Tennis News
Former British number one, Greg Rusedski, believes that his country’s highest ranked tennis player at the moment, Andy Murray, deserves the BBC Sports Personality of the Year award for 2012 but he will not be able to get it as many other sportspersons achieved
more.
Murray had the most successful season of his career in this year, doing what his compatriots could not do in more than last seven decades.
The British number one first became the first player from his country to reach the final of Wimbledon since 1978. Then he earned a Gold Medal for Great Britain at the London Olympics, a feat achieved for the first time in more than 100 years by any British
player.
If that was not enough, Murray grabbed US Open to become his country’s first Grand Slam winner in the last 76 years.
Rusedski, who won the same award after beating Tim Henman and Steve Redgrave in 1997, said, “Andy deserves to win. What he has accomplished is amazing – first British Grand Slam winner for 76 years, first in a Wimbledon final since 1936; he won the gold
medal, beating Roger Federer.”
However, British sports had its best year in a long time in 2012. Bradley Wiggins became first player from Great Britain to win Tour de France, which is the biggest competition in the sport of cycling, and also won Gold Medal at the London Olympics. Then
Mohamed Farah also became the first British athlete to win two long distance events at the Olympics.
Rusedski added, “But then it is hard to argue against Bradley Wiggins, as the first Briton to win the Tour de France – that feat in itself, with a clean cycling team, is phenomenal. And then he backs it up with a gold medal. Then there’s Mo Farah – no British
man has ever won the Olympic long distance double. And you could keep on going, 15 or 20 people.”
The British legend believes that Murray would be able to win the BBC Sports Personality of the Year award in 2013 if he gives same level of performance.
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