More disappointment for the Britons – Tennis News
World number four, Andy Murray, is surrounded with sadness and after facing an embarrassing loss on his home soil at the hands of French tennis ace, Nicolas Mahut, earlier this week. He was the top seed contestant in the tournament
and expected to lift trophy at AEGON Championship, contested at Queen’s Club.
However, the sloppy performances for the Murray families are not restricted to just Andy; his elder brother, Jamie, also lost the doubles contest in an enthralling three-setter. Marcos Baghdatis from Cypriot partnered with the
Briton to take on the likes of the Indian duo, Mahesh Bhupathi and Rohan Bopanna, and lost the match 3-6, 6-7 (5/7). Indian duo is seeded fifth in the tournament and much more experience campaigners in doubles than the team of Murray and Baghdatis. However,
it was necessary for the Briton to hang a bit late in the tournament just to wipe off the loss of his younger brother but he failed to do so.
Jamie clearly placed the blame on the lack of playing time with his Cypriot partner and confessed, "We had never played together before, and it’s a scratch pairing. I'm sure it helps that our opponents had played a ton of matches
and we just played one match last night. In saying that, we still were close and with a little bit of luck or had we done slightly better on a couple shots, we would have won the second set."
Something has got to change for the Britons because they are falling apart a bit too easily at elite tennis platforms. Only the likes of the young duo, Heather Watson and Laura Robson, have shown some promise to restore respect
for their nation. Other players especially, Andy Murray, has been terrible lately and needs to kick off before the start of the grass court Grand Slam Championship at Wimbledon.
He lost in the quarter-final of the Roland Garros French Open; lost early in Rome and made didn’t participate in the Mutua Madrid Open due to fatigue and injury excuse. It seems like he is avoiding competition and wants to win
titles without any resistance at all. It is highly unlikely especially with the current competitive tennis format where any player can upset the supreme seeds at any stage of the tournament. An example for that is the Kazakh qualifier, Yaroslava Shvedova,
who reached the quarter-final stage of the French Open playing all the way from the first qualifier.
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