Tennis

A Look Back: Pete Sampras

Thursday, November 20, 2008, 09:37am

Posted by Andrew Ferdinando in A Look Back , Tennis

This weekend sees a special Masters tournament in London where players such as Pete Sampras, John MacEnroe and Goran Ivanisevic will be playing one another. Oh.....and of course Greg Rusedski and Jeremy Bates!

The highlight will be when Sampras and MacEnroe take each other on. Sampras holds the record of 14 grand slam wins and below are some of his best moments from Wimbledon where he won 7 of them.

Aggressive Murray not very British

Tuesday, September 23, 2008, 09:41am

Posted by Andrew Ferdinando in Tennis

Great Britain v Austria - Davis Cup

Prior to his Davis cup match with Andy Murray on Sunday, Jurgen Melzer was winding up his British opponent.

Melzer had suggested that Murray might struggle to handle the pressure of having to "carry" his team. Murray clearly took exception and admitted that these remarks had "fired him up a bit".

During the game Melzer threw everything at Murray. He played like a guy who had nothing to lose and went for the big shots relentlessly.

Murray responded though. He was clearly a bit more than "a little fired up" and Melzer was defeated by a controlled and aggressive performance.

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Andy Murray Keepy-uppy

Friday, September 12, 2008, 01:44pm

Posted by Andrew Ferdinando in Tennis

This is actually really impressive!

Can Andy Murray beat Federer?

Monday, September 08, 2008, 11:53am

Posted by Andrew Ferdinando in Tennis

(Murray closes out the 2nd set against Nadal)

What an incredible performance yesterday from Andy Murray to win against Rafael Nadal. Nadal has been unbeatable this year and Murray showed real guts to return after an overnight rain break to close out victory.

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The Murray Brothers storm the US Open but do we care?

Thursday, September 04, 2008, 11:32am

Posted by Andrew Ferdinando in Tennis

Last night Andy Murray powered his way into the US Open semi finals blasting away Juan Martin Del Potro, an Argentinian who prior to this match was enjoying a 23 match winning streak.

Meanwhile Murray's brother Jamie, partnering Liezel Huber, will play in the Mixed Doubles final in the same tournament at the weekend.

This surely is a huge coup for British sport and yet very little fuss seems to have been made about it at all.

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