Friday 15 April 2011

Here'sssssss Andy!!!!

Welly well, Andy Murray has just furthened his highly impressive winning streak at the Monte Carlo Masters today as he ruthlessly defeated the unseeded Federico Gil in straight sets, in a crushing score of 6-2 6-1, his efforts today were so good he even managed to convert yesterday's boo-ing crowd into a cheering one.  Andy has undeniably bounced back exceptionally well from his slump earlier this year, and has even changed his attitude as he has now become a believer like Novak Djokovic.  In fact I wonder if he had gotten his hands on some Djokovic juice somewhere and taken a swig!   Perhaps Andy in his post match interviews has started to sound a little bit cocky, but I think its morely that he's just got his confidence back and he's now looking forward each match he plays.  One thing for sure is he is starting to play like the world no.4. 

But a big mountain of a challenge faces him tomorrow afternoon as he takes on Rafa for their 14th meeting, and naturally Rafa leads the head to head win 9-4 in his favour against Andy.  But one way or another I think hopefully we will be promised one hell of a match, without a shred of doubt it will be tough for Andy but I'm certain in his current form he can push and test Nadal to his limit.  But whether or not he can beat Rafa on clay is not certain, in fact it seems far more certain that Rafa will beat Andy.  But if Andy can dethrone the king of clay, there is no limit to what he could achieve, he could even threaten Djokovic in his current form, however I don't see that happening just yet if at all.  Doing well at a clay tournament is one thing but defeating the world No.1 on his best surface is quite another.  But I'm sure tomorrow will promise to be the match of the tournament, although it could be a disappointing fairly easy straight sets defeat for Andy or it could be an out and out battle, like their epic match at the ATP World Tour Finals last year.  In Andy's current form I hope its the latter, but its hard to tell. 

So I'm really looking forward to tomorrow with baited breath as the cliche goes, as we await the potential dream semi final against the two titans, the world no. 1 versus the british no.1.  It remains to be seen what will happen. 

So bring it on!

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