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Two years in a row, Andy Murray left Melbourne a loser in the final of the Australian Open and fell into the most awful funk until the clay court swing roused his spirits. On Friday, in two excellent sets in Dubai, he blitzed the unblitzable Novak Djokovic, his conqueror in a titanic semi-final in Australia only a couple of months ago. No early-season blues, then, for Murray in 2012, which may turn out to be his breakthrough year.
He has a new coach in Ivan Lendl, and a new attitude. The Sultan of Sulk was nowhere to be seen in the desert on Friday as he set...
He was still feeling the effects of jet lag and had just nursed a sore back through his opening victory here yesterday, but Andy Murray was clear about one thing. He now knows what it takes to win one of the four great prizes... more »
“I am working as much as I can, and I am doing everything they tell me to every day, and the truth is that right now things are going well, more or less,” Rafael Nadal was widely quoted as saying the other day. ... more »
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