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By Caroline Cheese
BBC Sport at Wimbledon |
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To hell with it, I'm going with two flags
0938: Former British number one and BBC commentator
Tim Henman was impressed by Murray's performance, after a dodgy few months for the Scot.
"Coming into Wimbledon I spoke of how important it was for him to dictate play and be the aggressor," said Henman. "I wanted to see him achieving a high first-serve percentage, dictating from the baseline and getting that backhand working like we know it can. For the majority of the match he played offensive and aggressive tennis, kept his first-serve percentage well above 60%, looked to dictate from the baseline and got his backhand firing consistently."
0931: Let's focus on the positives. In his latest
exclusive! column for the BBC website,
Andy Murray, who showed flashes of his very best form in
his first-round win over Jan Hajek,
says he's looking forward to playing in front of the Queen on Thursday. "That's probably not going to happen too often in my career, if ever again, so I want to be prepared as best as possible and hopefully I'll put on a good performance. I'll be practising my bowing in front of the mirror on Wednesday night!"
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0921: On Radio Wimbledon, they're wondering whether football is the reason not enough kids play tennis in Britain. Just as well we rule the world in football then... Oh wait...
0914: In his blog, BBC 5 live's Jonathan Overend has promised to seek some answers from British tennis bigwigs this morning, so we can look forward to lots of positive spin no doubt. Yesterday, Jonathan
asked Andy Murray for his thoughts.
"The rankings are not good enough," said the world number four. "The last few years it [British men's tennis] has definitely got worse, less depth even than three or four years ago."
0909: Not such a good morning if you're British tennis-related. Andy Murray is the
only home player through to the second round,
Britain's worst ever Wimbledon in its 133-year history. A failure of impressive proportions. Furrowed brows all round at the LTA then, and they may be grateful that the small matter of England's crunch match against Slovenia has kept tennis off the front pages today.
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