https://www.murraysworld.com/ https://www.murraysworld.com/columns/article/35023/ It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those...

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The British number one is consistently in the top five in the ATP return statistic tables, jostling about with Novak Djokovic, David Ferrer, Rafa Nadal, along with Gilles Simon and To...

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     "You can be so subtle you just tie yourself up in knots."

     "You can be so simple you just go nine rounds with yourself."  (The PowerBook, 2000)

Murray might well appreciate the boxing metaphor, but these two lines have always called to my mind the complexities - and sometimes the failings - of Britain's best modern tennis playe...

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After an emotional Davis Cup home tie, Murray travelled to the Californian desert to attempt to change the patterns of the recent past which would see him crash out to much lower ranked players in the e...

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Few could have dreamed what would happen just 12 months later.

What a difference a year makes.

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A golden triumph

After a promising start to his relationship with...

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At this stage Murray had now lost...

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The time was 8:40pm, and the sky above Centre Court at Wimbledon was lit with its last ferocious display, before succumbing to the darkness of the night. A clear orange mist surrounded the sun and the finely mown courts of Wimbledon were glistening. As Murray approached his chair, he went about his normal duties of rehydrating himself and wiping the cold sweat off his face and arms that the s...

]]> News Sat, 06 Jul 2013 18:27:27 GMT https://www.murraysworld.com/columns/article/26343/ https://www.murraysworld.com/columns/article/22106/
Andy Murray goes under a gigantic microscope in this country for a month, doesn't he? It's rather surprising how many people are fairweather tennis fans on these shores. As an avid user of social networking sites, it always makes me chuckle to see acquaintances pass comment on Murray and his efforts at Wimbledon. It's either positive and encouraging, or the usual nonsense ; 'dour, anti-English, Scottish twat'. Fifty weeks then pass before these comments are made again, ad nauseum. These comments are all very predictable, not to mention sad. Here is a man, on the cusp of becoming a legend of the game, who is largely unappreciated by his public.

]]> News Fri, 06 Jul 2012 22:58:12 GMT https://www.murraysworld.com/columns/article/22106/ https://www.murraysworld.com/columns/article/21932/ Murraysworld writer Nigel Graber assesses the chances of the Big Three and Everyone Else ahead of the 2012 Wimbledon men's singles, which kicks off tomorrow

Back in the day, we'd go into Wimbledon in late June with a list of possible men's winners as long as the history of the All England Club.

But in 2012, seasoned analysts are in complete accord. Nobody outside the world's top three-ranked players will be clutching that silver gilt cup on Centre Court on July 10th.

It's not that there's a dearth of quality players in the men's game. Just a dearth of credible contenders. The supremacy of Novak Djokovic, Rafael Nadal and Roger Federer has been complete...

]]> News Sun, 24 Jun 2012 12:29:43 GMT https://www.murraysworld.com/columns/article/21932/ https://www.murraysworld.com/columns/article/20600/ When Roger Federer criticised Stanislas Wawrinka last week for his poor form in the Davis Cup doubles, it was nothing new. The Swiss has had his foot in his ungracious mouth for a few years now.

The man has rocked up at Wimbledon looking like a bottle of gold-topped milk, so it seems a little ironic to learn that the emperor of tennis has no clothes.

Back in 2003, when a floppy-haired Swiss first found slam success with his liquid-whip forehand on the lawns of SW19, it seemed the tennis world was being introduced not only to a player of incomparably fine shotmaking but also to a gentleman.

Today, the former is in serious doubt – or at least the i...

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