Tuesday, June 2, 2009

Murray boosted by display on clay

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Murray takes positives from French exit

Andy Murray remained upbeat about his overall French Open performance despite bowing out in the quarter-finals.

He went further than he had done before at Roland Garros before losing to Fernando Gonzalez and is now looking forward to the grass court season.

"I've won probably double the amount of matches that I had won in my life on clay before this stretch," he said.

"I'll just go and improve and work on some things in the next week or so, and hopefully play well on grass."

The 22-year-old Scot, ranked three in the world, lost 6-3 3-6 6-0 6-4 to Gonzalez but insisted he was not upset by his defeat as there were more positives than negatives to take from the experience.

"It's been a very good one (clay season) for me, a lot better than previous years," said the world number three.

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"It's not like after a match like this I'm going to get down about it."

The Chilean's reward for beating Murray is a semi-final against Robin Soderling, the 23rd seed, who knocked out defending champion Rafael Nadal last weekend.

The other semi-final will be between the winners of Wednesday's matches between Roger Federer and Gael Monfils, and Juan Martin del Potro and Tommy Robredo.

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