• Murray wins 6-3, 6-2 against 19-year-old• Scot will meet Alexandra Dolgopolov in the final Andy Murray saw off the spirited challenge of the Australian teenager Bernard Tomic to reach the final of the ATP Brisbane International – under the watchful eye of his new coach, Ivan Lendl. He was made to work hard in [...]
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Andy Murray and young Aussie Bernard Tomic both play with a particularly beguiling brand of wizardry. However, master Murray dismissed his apprentice today, 6-3 6-2, to move into the final of the Brisbane International. Before the approving gaze of new coach Ivan Lendl, the world number four was faster, smarter and slicker than the 19 [...]
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Andy Murray eased into the semi-finals of the Brisbane International with a 6-2 6-2 win over Marcos Baghdatis. The Scot started on top form taking a 4-0 lead in the first set while the second set proved to be a closer affair. Murray broke Baghdatis' serve in the fifth game of the second set to [...]
Continue reading …• Murray hopes to achieve greater consistency this year• World No4 will face Bernard Tomic in Brisbane semi-finals Andy Murray has stated his ambition of becoming the world No1 in 2012 after storming into the semi-finals of the Brisbane International with a 6-2, 6-2 win over Marcos Baghdatis. The world No4 had been less than [...]
Continue reading …• British world No4 beats Müller 4-6 7-6, 6-0• Faces quarter-final against Marcos Baghdatis Andy Murray continued to do it the hard way as he reached the last eight of the Brisbane International with a three-set win over Gilles Müller. The British No1 went a set down for the second day in succession after a [...]
Continue reading …Andy Murray has made it through to the last eight of the Brisbane International after squeezing past Gilles Muller in a difficult encounter. The Scot lost the first set but managed to recover to take the match 4-6 7-6 (7-4) 6-0. Murray will now face Marcos Baghdatis in the quarter-finals.
Continue reading …• Murray overcomes Kazakhstan player 5-7, 6-3, 6-2• Scot will face Gilles Müller in the second round Andy Murray survived a scare before battling back to see off Kazakhstan’s Mikhail Kukushkin in his first match of 2012 at the Brisbane International on Tuesday. Murray ended 2011 in some style with victories in three of his [...]
Continue reading …Andy Murray showed all his fighting qualities in an exhilarating comeback against Mikhail Kukushkin, who he vanquished 5-7, 6-3, 6-2 in the first round of the Brisbane International. Murray's new coach Ivan Lendl saw a dogged, determined performance here. Credit must go to Kukushkin, though, who rarely let his head drop and showed his mettle [...]
Continue reading …• ‘This is like Groundhog Day – I have been in this movie’• Coach can raise Murray’s game as Tony Roche did for him Ivan Lendl knows what it takes to move a player’s game to the next level and he believes he can help Andy Murray do it. The career of Lendl, who was [...]
Continue reading …• ‘He brings experience and knowledge that few others have’• Murray has ‘struck gold’, says Tony Roche Andy Murray has admitted he has hired the eight-time grand slam winner Ivan Lendl as his coach in a bid to win a major title. “It was important to me that any new person joining my team was [...]
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