Since Fred Perry on the 1936 Us Open no other british could win a major.
It was playing time. As always, gym class at school means having a good time to children. The morning had started cold and quiet. There was no chance for superstitions. The 1996 calendar shows that march 13 placed on Wednesday, but for more than one that day was more like Friday. Thomas Watt Hamilton, a former scout leader burst into the gymnasium with handguns shooting to everyone and everything on his way before killing himself. One kid felt scared, ¿who won't?. That fear made him hide under a desk and so he saved his life. Andy Murray Could had been one of the sixteen children murdered that day, better known as the Dunblane massacre. “I could have been one of those children . The weirdest thing was that we knew the guy [Hamilton]. He had been in my mum's car( her mother give hive lifts). It's obviously weird to think you had a murderer in your car, sitting next to your mum”, said Murray
Now, the fifth ATP player of the ranking, is a top star. On the court he looks like an almighty giant able to mash his opponents real quick, but there is a match where he went to be that kid who hide himself because he fears, there’s a match he still afraid of play.
On the three Grand Slam finals he had played, he did not even win a set. The first of them was during the Us Open 2008. Play on the biggest stadium in the World against Roger Federer is definitely not the best scenary for a rookie. An year before, Novak Djokovic reach the Us Open Final by sweeping opponents, but the final step was Federer, and his hopes to win his first major title vanished real quick.
The pressure rise for the british. An year after he miss his first chance of winning a GS to Federer, the Argentinean Juan Martin Del Potro did what nobody could within 2004 and 2008: defeat the swiss on the last Grand Slam of the season. What Murray could not do in 2008 was made by Del Potro, who, as a non experienced Grand Slam Finalist, clinched his first major title and became the second player in the world who beat Federer in this kind of matches. Untill that moment, only Rafael Nadal had stopped the 16 time GS champion winner on a final. ¿So what is going on with “Andy”?, people ask in Great Britain.
A new Murray shown up in Australian Open 2010. No cap, Switched Fred Perry to Adidas, left his old Head Intelligence Radical for a Youtek, and more than a year of experience since that final on 2008.¿ The score? Federer give him a class once again. 6-3, 6-4 and 7-6 for the swiss watch. Roger raised his 16 GS trophy, and Murray has to settle with a plate once again and could not hold his tears.
This year he reach the AO final once again, but for the third time on a GS final he lost, for the third time he didn’t even win a set. Djokovic made Murray look like a ghost, and once again he had to see with anger how another guy raises the cup.
“He will not win any GS untill he gets a real coach. Tony Roach is the man, he can knows a lot about serve and volley and Andy needs to be more aggressive, so the can be a good couple. Also Tony had coached Patrick Rafter, Lleyton Hewitt, Ivan Lendl or Roger Federers, so ¿he’s got records isn’t he?, Greg Rusedski said ironically.
Another lefty who speaked about Murray was Martina Navratilova: “He is on a great moment, maybe the best of his life but when you can seize your chances and see how the years pass your pressure starts to rise.He had to stop blaming his box for every forehand he miss and start to be more tough with him.
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