[Bryan]

He is currently 145 in the world and is in the Final of a Challenger event in New York state, which is a 2nd string event(the events you do before you are on the main tour). He should get into the top 100 this year.

[Steve McQueen]

I thought he'd got into the top 100 already?

[Fuctifano]

He won the Challenger event. He does seem a bit of a player. Hopefully over the next few years Wimbledon will turn into a Tennent's and chips fest rather than Pimm's and strawberries!

[codfish]

Radford 72, on Aug 14 2005, 17:58, said:

Here was me thinking Bry was about to tell us he'd changed his name!

He has a wildcard to the Cinncinati event next week and will obviously play at the US Open because he's junior champion.

...and has drawn Taylor Dent in the first round at Cinncinati - the American won't be looking forward to that after their match at Queens

[Bryan]

He is now 132 in the world

[Mon_The_Bairns]

Synex, on Aug 15 2005, 00:41, said:

He won the Challenger event. He does seem a bit of a player. Hopefully over the next few years Wimbledon will turn into a Tennent's and chips fest rather than Pimm's and strawberries!

Sounds good to me

[Mon_The_Bairns]

Andy Murray's match against taylor dent is on sky sports extra after rusedski's match incase anyone is interested. Rusedski's match started at 6.

Seems as though play has been suspended.

This post has been edited by Mon_The_Bairns: 16 August 2005 - 17:23

[Fuctifano]

Murray beats Dent again and now faces Marat Safin!

[Bryan]

Synex, on Aug 17 2005, 09:35, said:

Murray beats Dent again and now faces Marat Safin!

[Bryan]

he is live on sky sports extra

[ALL HÚNS 'n' TIMS ARE SCUM]

He's had the trainer on already.

I'm beginning to dislike Murray with his constant excuses and refusing to go through the pain barrier.

[Bryan]

Olaf Thom, on Aug 17 2005, 22:16, said:

He's had the trainer on already.

I'm beginning to dislike Murray with his constant excuses and refusing to go through the pain barrier.

to be fair he has had quite a few games in the last months it is wear and tear

[H_B]

Thought he was poor last night. Even the second set Safin self destructed.

Hopefully a warning to stop people getting carried away. Still a long way to go before he is the real deal.

[Bryan]

Hieronymous_Bosch, on Aug 18 2005, 09:16, said:

Thought he was poor last night. Even the second set Safin self destructed.

Hopefully a warning to stop people getting carried away. Still a long way to go before he is the real deal.

Safin is world number 4 the best player he has played, i think your being a bit harsh as in round 1 he beat the world number 22.

[H_B]

bryantonfan, on Aug 18 2005, 10:24, said:

Safin is world number 4  the best player he has played,  i think your being a bit harsh as in round 1 he beat the world number 22.

But it was a very rusty Safin, who looked short of confidence and was far below his World Number 4 form.

You have to be critical of bad performances if you are to praise highly good performances.

I didnt think he played well.

[Bryan]

Hieronymous_Bosch, on Aug 18 2005, 10:27, said:

But it was a very rusty Safin, who looked short of confidence and was far below his World Number 4 form.

You have to be critical of bad performances if you are to praise highly good performances.

I didnt think he played well.

He may not have played well, but in the general scheme of things he is on target for the top 100 by next year.

[H_B]

bryantonfan, on Aug 18 2005, 10:35, said:

He may not have played well, but in the general scheme of things he is on target for the top 100 by next year.

Yes, thats fine. He is doing very well.

The fact he has so much to work on in his game is a positive. It would be a worry if you couldn't see where he could improve.

[Bryan]

Hieronymous_Bosch, on Aug 18 2005, 10:41, said:

Yes, thats fine. He is doing very well.

The fact he has so much to work on in his game is a positive. It would be a worry if you couldn't see where he could improve.

very true, he needs work on a few things and his fitness. if he gets qualifies for the US Open and wins a challenger or two and wins a few rounds of events he is invited to he will reach his target.

[Mon_The_Bairns]

There is no doubt he is progressing well and a defeat by safin will serve as good experience and i'm sure he will be even more determined to improve.

[yohan]

Olaf Thom, on Aug 17 2005, 22:16, said:

He's had the trainer on already.

I'm beginning to dislike Murray with his constant excuses and refusing to go through the pain barrier.

Thought the same at Wimbledon when he was mooching about and looking for sympathy. You don't see that crap from Nadal or others who are a similar age. He could become easy to dislike BUT if he matures a bit and keeps developing his game then this won't be a problem.

[H_B]

yohan, on Aug 18 2005, 12:07, said:

Thought the same at Wimbledon when he was mooching about and looking for sympathy. You don't see that crap from Nadal or others who are a similar age. He could become easy to dislike BUT if he matures a bit and keeps developing his game then this won't be a problem.

Roddick did this as well early in his career.

He became the master of the leg cramps and hobbling about the court act, which led to him retiring through injury when he was about to lose several times. He grew out of it too though.

I think one of the ex-player commentators said over 80% of players on the tour have at least one semi-major injury that they play through, whether it be leg, shoulder or whatever. The experienced pros tend to keep it hidden though!

[yohan]

Hieronymous_Bosch, on Aug 18 2005, 12:30, said:

Roddick did this as well early in his career.

He became the master of the leg cramps and hobbling about the court act, which led to him retiring through injury when he was about to lose several times. He grew out of it too though.

Yup - don't like Roddick

[Musketeer Gripweed]

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Murray into last qualifying round 
 
Latest results 
British number three Andy Murray moved to within one victory of qualifying for the US Open when he beat Italy's Paolo Lorenzi on Thursday.
The 18-year-old Scot came through 6-3 6-2 in New York against 23-year-old Lorenzi, ranked 263 in the world.

Murray broke five times in total on his way to a final qualifying match against Giovanni Lapentti of Ecuador.

In earlier second-round matches, fellow Britons Jonny Marray and Arvind Parmar both lost in straight sets.

A very tough match as Lapentti has won several challengers too and has made a lot of progress up the rankings this year 

Marray went down 6-4 6-2 to Brazil's Thiago Alves, while Parmar dropped the first four games against American Hugo Armando and eventually lost 6-3 6-4.

Murray broke Lorenzi's serve immediately and survived two break points in game four before easing to the opening set.

The Italian hit back with a break at the beginning of the second but Murray responded straight away, and then took the decisive break to go 4-2 up.

That finally broke Lorenzi's resistance and Murray broke again to wrap up victory.

He will now take on Lapentti, who fought back to defeat Russia's Igor Kunitsyn 3-6 6-3 6-3.

[Fudge]

It's good news he is through, but my prediction will be that he battles past the first round, draws a big gun in the 2nd round is doing fairly well but will then pick up and injury and it will end in glorious failure.

I really want the lad to do well but it gets a bit tiring, and the British public all appluad him for such withdrawals.

i hope he proves me wrong, but i wonder why he never seems to get cramp against the less players who he manages to beat