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Post by Brinyi on Sept 5, 2006 17:29:23 GMT -5
"I called him 'Mopey Murray' back at the French and Wimbledon - just whining and moping. He still whines but he's sort of more positive about it."
US Davis Cup captain Patrick McEnroe pays Andy Murray a back-handed compliment.
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Post by Brinyi on Sept 25, 2006 7:55:45 GMT -5
Murray's 6-3, 6-2, 7-5 victory was punctuated by scowls and shouts from both sides of the net and the Scot became increasingly agitated as the match went on. When he played poorly he launched into tirades of self-condemnation and when he won key points he celebrated noisily. When the umpire refused to overturn one line call he screamed out: "No way, man!" That led to an official warning for unsportsmanlike behaviour and the umpire told John Lloyd, enjoying a winning debut as British captain, that his man needed to calm down. Another outburst followed, however, as Murray, preparing to serve, shouted at Stakhovsky: "Frigging server's speed!" Murray explained later: "You're supposed to play at the server's speed. Not once did I hold him up during the whole match. It's a little bit annoying when you're stepping up to serve and he's banging his shoes and sticking his hand up. He did it seven or eight times during the match." With only a hint of tongue in cheek, Murray added: "I wanted to get off the court. I have a flight to catch to Bangkok so I didn't want to hang around." Stakhovsky, who was angered at one stage by noise from the small group of British supporters, insisted there was no animosity between the two players but said he had felt tired after his three matches. "After you've been out on court for nine hours over three days you need some time," he said in explanation of his lack of urgency between points.
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Post by janie on Sept 25, 2006 17:25:16 GMT -5
It's nice to see that Mopey is shaping up so nicely as an idiot of Hewittesque grade. After all, Chip has to retire someday, and we won't have to look far for a worthy replacement for him!
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Post by Brinyi on Oct 3, 2006 18:26:50 GMT -5
Jamie Murray showing some splendid tolerance and sensitivity!
"We were annoyed with the Israeli pair [Jonathan Erlich and Andy Ram] because at 11:30pm the night before the final they had the final changed to 1pm as it clashed with their jewish festivities...they said they couldn't play past 4pm which I thought was a load of rubbish and they should be made to play whenever seeing as it is a final."
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Post by molala on Oct 4, 2006 9:00:57 GMT -5
Gosh, that's quite embarrassing.
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Post by Brinyi on Nov 4, 2006 9:13:50 GMT -5
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Post by leelee on Nov 4, 2006 12:38:59 GMT -5
It's nice to see that Mopey is shaping up so nicely as an idiot of Hewittesque grade. After all, Chip has to retire someday, and we won't have to look far for a worthy replacement for him! Mope is a lot worse than Hewitt ever was.
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Post by janie on Nov 12, 2006 21:47:10 GMT -5
The Scotsman, No. 10 Close shave as fans vote for Murray's hairSHĂ‚N ROSS ANDY Murray is getting his distinctive unruly curls chopped off in favour of a short back and sides after asking fans to vote for his new revamped barnet on his website. The online poll result announced yesterday revealed more than 13,000 fans had voted in the poll over what the Scottish tennis star should do with his hair. A last minute decision to extend voting by a few days had spared Murray, 19, from an all-over grade four. On Tuesday morning, the buzz-cut was the overwhelming choice, but a late surge of an extra 7,000 votes cast in the space of ten hours ruled it out. Last night Murray admitted he had been "psyching himself up" for a shaved head. He will instead have his hair cut into a "short at the back, messy on top" style for charity on 23 November in London. Fans will get a chance to see the new style later this month when Murray, who will end the year at 17th in the world rankings, returns to Scotland for the Aberdeen Cup. [oh goody]Murray, who has admitted cutting his own hair with nail scissors when bored or asking his girlfriend Kim Sears to give him a trim, asked fans to choose his new hairstyle ten days ago after being teased about his curls. Murray's hair became an issue at Wimbledon last summer when fellow players began ribbing him. Even his mother, Judy, said it was time something was done about it. [like we thought she'd stay out of it? ]Fans also had their views - when Murray attended the launch of a junior tennis programme he was greeted by youngsters disguised as "mini-Murrays" wearing curly wigs. "I think that's their way of telling me I have a terrible haircut," he joked. He has also admitted that he has not had his haircut professionally for almost a year and a half. The style took 43 per cent of the vote while the grade four came second at 28 per cent. The other two options - trimmed and thinned but keeping it longish or Murray cutting it himself again - took 17 and 12 per cent respectively. Murray, who is travelling to Miami on holiday [ewww!!!], said yesterday: "It's pretty mad so many people have voted on my next haircut, but it's cool everyone seems to have had some fun with it. "To be honest, I was getting myself psyched up for a grade four all over, but the fans have come through for me in the end." One of Scotland's leading hairdressers, Charles Kivlin, of CK Hair & Beauty in Edinburgh, who styles top sportsmen and footballers, said Murray should get a grade four. "I think a grade four is great for sportsmen. In Andy's case it would look the part and make people take him seriously," he said. "I've seen him in tournaments and he seems to be wearing a baseball cap and looks very hot and uncomfortable. A shorter, sculptured style would really suit him, save him time washing his hair and give him an advantage instead of continually having to dry himself off." Meanwhile, the debate on the andymurray.com website continued but the majority of fans were happy with the outcome.
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Post by Brinyi on Nov 28, 2006 15:59:57 GMT -5
MURRAY'S GIRL: I'LL BE SMASH HIT AS ACTOR THE girlfriend of tennis star Andy Murray has revealed she wants to become an actress. Kim Sears, 19, has applied for a place at London's Central School of Speech and Drama. Its famous former students include Bond star Dame Judi Dench and ex-Doctor Who Christopher Eccleston. Kim said: "I have my auditions coming up now, just after Christmas." Since leaving the ÂŁ18,000-a-year Burgess Hill School for Girls in Sussex, Kim has attended tennis events around the world with Murray. She said: "I have made time to watch Andy play some tennis, but I am on a gap year so I'm not just following him around. "I have plans of my own and I am looking forward to drama school. Watching Andy being a drama queen can only help me in my studies." Kim spoke as she accompanied Murray, 19, on a trip to Stirling, where he opened a ÂŁ1.3million extension to the Scottish National Tennis Centre at the city's university. The pair have just returned from Florida, where they got away from tennis by swimming with dolphins, jet-skiing and watching basketball. It was Andy's first holiday from his sport since he was 12. He returned refreshed to lead a Scotland team, including brother Jamie, to victory against England in the Aberdeen Cup at the weekend at the city's AECC. Kim said: "I am from Sussex, but I was supporting Scotland, not England. "But it is a bit harder to decide where my allegiances lie when Andy and Jamie are not playing though." Sources: www.dailyrecord.co.uk and yibrin.com
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Post by janie on Nov 28, 2006 20:17:23 GMT -5
"Watching Andy being a drama queen can only help me in my studies." For no good reason I hope she doesn't get in.
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Post by Brinyi on Jan 2, 2007 22:39:09 GMT -5
A Happy New Year of Murray-Bashing!
Andy McBrat should forget the book and play tennis
Andy Murray is too young and has achieved too little to be releasing an autobiography later this year, says Michael Henderson
Tuesday January 2, 2007 The Guardian
A Happy New Year to one and all, but as you are enjoying the delights of this wind-swept January, consider this little fact which emerged from a truly mind-boggling report in Saturday's Guardian: Andy Murray, the 19-year-old Scottish tennis player, is bringing out his autobiography later this year.
It promises to be a belting read, better even than last autumn's crackers from our world-beating footballers. Reliable sources have let it be known that we can look forward to Murray's views on the films of Truffaut, the wines of Spain, Haydn's Op 76 quartets, Swiss clocks, Flemish tapestries, and Rococo churches. So devoted is he to the confessional cause that he is spending two hours every day, writing it up, after practising his backhand. No wonder the publishers are putting it about that Murray is going to reveal "the real me".
Goodness gracious, has it come to this? A surly brat, who happens to show some talent with a racket (one day he may even get through five sets without sending for the smelling-salts) is lending his name to a book, ghosted by a favoured reporter who must dutifully take down the prattlings of a young shaver who hasn't seen enough of life - his own or anybody else's - to say anything that might remotely be of interest.
This is the unappealing face of sport in our upside-down world. It is the sportsman as celebrity, ready to pop in the oven for half an hour and serve with a bit of salad. Murray has not yet achieved anything of note but that doesn't stop people fawning over him as though Rod Laver had suddenly shed 40 years. (He was a tennis player, m'dear, and rather better than you will ever be. Ask mum).
Wouldn't it be in everybody's interests, not least Murray's, to let the lad get on with the arduous business of becoming the player he hopes to be? Piling up the sponsorship deals is all very well (it will certainly feather a few nests) but the money will count for naught if he fails to justify the extravagant claims being made on his behalf. He is quite a good player, the Jock, but so far only quite.
When one hears some of the language used by his associates, the most proper response is a wince. According to Patricio Apey, his agent, Murray could earn as much as ÂŁ80m in the next few years if he wins a few major tournaments. Apey referred to something called "the Andy Murray brand" - though he might have meant the Andy Murray Band, successor to the splendid troupe led all those years ago by Jimmy (later Sir James) Shand.
It gets worse; 'pon my soul, it does. "He's a 19-year-old kid," said Apey. "He doesn't do commercial smiles". Oh, I don't know. For ÂŁ80m even Murray of the grim-faced countenance might be persuaded to give it a go. But no, mock not. In the words of his agent: "He's as genuine as you get. That's why he's so credible with his generation. And that's what companies are attracted to."
Where does one start to rebuff this guff? First, "genuine". What is genuine about behaving in such a churlish, ill-mannered way that you put off people who, in normal circumstances, would be happy to see you prevail? A grumpy teenager is not, nor ever will be, a thing of beauty.
Next, "credible". Anybody who uses that word immediately becomes a less than credible witness. In fact Mr Apey reveals himself more fully than Murray intends to do in the unputdownable book of his life. What he really means is, "We know he behaves poorly now and again but we shan't do much about it so long as we think it is in our commercial interests".
Then, "that's what companies are attracted to". Some of them might be, now, in Britain, but the McBrat act will not play well in all lands. From a playing point of view, which is the only one that counts, if Murray does not grow up he will cease to be a contender. Then Highland Spring, and the other sponsors, will head for the hills.
The Murray camp's New Year resolution must be to stop talking balls, and let their chap get on with hitting some. Talk about making tennis more like rock'n'roll (one of Judy Murray's groovy phrases) is like saying that chess should be more like butterfly collecting. Funnily enough, Roger Federer doesn't bother with these fripperies. He simply carries on winning tournaments, big and small, and confirming his reputation as one of the all-time greats. He smiles a lot, too, so he wins friends as well. Maybe there's a book in it.
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Post by Brinyi on Jan 5, 2007 19:20:22 GMT -5
The on-court outburst stemmed from a comment made by Gilbert to Murray just before the match about how to return serve. Murray, by his own admission, "started to return like an idiot" and bellowed out in frustration: "I can't believe you should say that to me two seconds before I go out on court."
Later in the match as he trailed by a set and a break he aimed another verbal volley at Gilbert, shouting: "If only you hadn't mentioned anything" before setting his mind to the job of dismantling the fearsome serve-volley game of the 6ft 5in Mirnyi.
Murray was quick to patch up the rift with Gilbert after breaking Mirnyi to love to clinch his 95-minute triumph. "It is a bad habit and something that I need to cut out," he reflected.
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Post by DBBN on Jan 5, 2007 19:51:00 GMT -5
Looks like he's going for my 2007 award too.
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Post by freudo on Jan 7, 2007 8:03:53 GMT -5
Murray was very sweet after the final, congratulating Ivan and calling him a great player who isn't given his full due. I don't know about Murray and Brad. He seems to want more emotional good vines from his coach, sort of asks for it in a petualnt accusing way when he wins a set, but doesn't get it. Yesterday Brad politley clapped a few times, whne he served BIG I like his game, so I tolerate the rest.
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Post by Brinyi on Jan 7, 2007 8:33:21 GMT -5
Ja, he does have a good game to watch.
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Post by janie on Jan 7, 2007 16:05:44 GMT -5
Yes, he does, dang it! That's what's so annoying.
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Post by DBBN on Jan 7, 2007 16:50:07 GMT -5
But he has horrible teeth, which swings it back.
Attitude + teeth > game
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Post by janie on Jan 7, 2007 17:51:48 GMT -5
No doubt they will make him get his teeth fixed, in order to maximize the Mopey Murray Brand.
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Post by leelee on Jan 7, 2007 20:00:29 GMT -5
Even with straight teeth, he's ugly.
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Post by janie on Jan 7, 2007 21:32:49 GMT -5
In Britain, they don't despise ugliness the way people do here. Actually, come to think of it, I don't think they care that much about dental perfection, either.
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Post by DBBN on Jan 7, 2007 23:05:34 GMT -5
The pickings are slim in the UK, 'tis true!
Remember that "Simpsons" when the sadistic dentist scared Ralph Wiggum into brushing by showing him "The Big Book of British Teeth"?
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Post by janie on Jan 8, 2007 20:50:46 GMT -5
No, really?
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Post by DBBN on Jan 17, 2007 13:45:21 GMT -5
Andy Murray is ranked #5 on the Australian Open's "Nicest Players" slideshow. I can't even get mad about this because it shows they did nothing more than pick players out of a hat to get to ten
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Post by leelee on Jan 17, 2007 14:49:02 GMT -5
Lolz. Silly Aussies.
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Post by Brinyi on May 10, 2007 23:15:20 GMT -5
Judy Murray given coaching role in British tennis LONDON (AP) - The mother of Andy Murray, Britain’s top-ranked tennis player, was hired Thursday by the Lawn Tennis Association to find and develop new British talent.
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Post by janie on May 15, 2007 16:59:51 GMT -5
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Post by janie on May 15, 2007 17:00:33 GMT -5
Nice hairdo.
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Post by Brinyi on Sept 20, 2007 14:53:46 GMT -5
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Post by sasha on Sept 20, 2007 20:51:25 GMT -5
Yep, one of the sexiest men in the world!
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Post by Brinyi on Nov 3, 2007 9:01:39 GMT -5
"What I've done this year has been unbelievable, considering my wrist injury. To have a match to get to the championships after what I've been through is amazing. "It came down to three bad games for me. When you win more games and more points and still lose the match, it's tough."
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