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FEDERER ON A HIGH

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The world number 3 Roger Federer is back in form again after defeating British Andy Murray in the finals of Dubai Duty Free ATP Tour Tennis Tournament. The former world number 1 is back amongst winning streak, and won his fifth title in Dubai on Saturday. His upcoming Tours includes Indian Wells and Miami and he wants to focus one at a time. He refuses to think about Wimbledon, Olympics or the US Open which is due in August. The Swiss star is in great form after winning 5 out of the 7 ATP s he has played in. His last titles coming within a week and he has not even dropped a set and 8 of the top ten players made the starting line-up.

Federer believes that once you are on a winning note then all the problems begins to vanish. There are no criticisms and the confidence comes back. He claims that he has played well in the Dubai series and also the one he played at Rotterdam a week before.

When he was asked by the scribes on why he refused to play an exhibition match with Rafael Nadal in Spain, he looked a bit hesitant. He says that he did not refuse the match but it did not match his dates. The match did not work out because of the tight schedule. The match was supposed to be held somewhere between the Wimbledon and the Olympics, he said. . He feels that in the coming future there can be an exhibition match, if the dates tally.

MURRAY WANTS GRAND SLAM

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Top British tennis player Andy Murray is hungry for a Grand Slam success this season and is willing to go to any extent to fulfill his Grand Slam ambitions and become the first British player to win a Major title in singles in the last few decades.

Murray has always faced criticism from the media and former players in his homeland for not getting his hands on the coveted Grand Slam title despite being in the top five in the ATP world rankings for the last few years on a consistent basis.

Murray even lost in three Grand Slam finals and has almost become the ‘nearly man’ of world tennis for reaching three finals and semi finals of the Major events without winning a single title. He even appointed former Grand Slam winner Ivan Lendl ahead of the Australian Open last December with the aim to improve his game and according to the world number four, the former world number one has already improved his game drastically with his approach.

Speaking to the media about the impact of Ivan Lendl, Andy Murray said that they only had five days ahead of the first Grand Slam of the year and in spite of the little time span, he helped a lot in his techniques and approach. One thing that Murray has in common with the Czech Maestro is that Lendl lost his first four Grand Slam finals before he turned it around to win eight Major titles in his career and Murray hopes that Lendl will be able to help him psychologically about his mindset in the final of a Major event.

It now waits to be seen whether Andy Murray can reach the heights that were expected of him when he burst on to the scene as a fresh youngster almost 6 years back now.

MURRAY: BRITAIN’S ONLY HOPE

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Andy Murray is Britain’s only hope left in the 2012 Australian Open after a very disappointing opening day for the Brits in the tournament. The United Kingdom had a total of 6 players in the final draw, something that hadn’t happened since 1992. But all the players disappointed bitterly. Heather Watson, Laura Robson, James Ward and Elena Baltacha all lost their respective singles matches, while Anne Keothovang had to retire against Mona Barthel.

The Scot is the country’s only hope of proceeding further in the first Grand Slam tournament of the calendar year, but it’s a realistic hope nonetheless. Murray has been in good form and won the warm-up tournament, the Brisbane International. His first match is against world no. 84, Ryan Harrison of the United States. Murray is the fourth seed in the competition and hopes to be able to live up to the expectations of his fans all over the world. His current form is huge step up from his form a year back. His performance against the current leader, Novak Djokovic, was so poor that a journalist asked him if he was suffering from an injury to which his, frankly, pathetic performance could be attributed. That, however, was not the case as Murray revealed. The scot took a long time to recover from his defeat at the hands of the Serbian.

Murray has decided to step up to the challenge this year and try and advance till the finals. Murray is expected to meet Djokovic in the semi-finals and that will be one match that tennis fans will be dying to watch. He has got himself a new coach in the form of Ivan Lendl, and he hopes that together, they can figure out all the problems so that he can play better tennis overall. Tennis fans will be waiting to see how that works out.