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topSPIN me (Free subscription) | 12 hours ago
This week...it's a race to the finish for the 7th, 8th, 9th, and 10th place. Andy Murray continues a slow and steady rise, while Jelena Jankovic and Venus Williams are tied at number 9. 1 RAFAEL NADAL 350 2 ROGER FEDERER 312 3 NOVAK DJOKOVIC 248 4 SERENA WILLIAMS 179 5 MARIA SHARAPOVA * 156 6 ANA IVANOVIC 137 7 ANDY MURRAY 130 8 ELENA DEMENTIEVA 129 9 JELENA JANKOVIC ** 128 VENUS WILLIAMS 128 Points...
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The Daily Brute (Free subscription) | yesterday
... well, pretty much everything. So, a change of topic. Next Monday, the Madrid Tennis Masters starts. And Andy Murray will win it. That is my prediction and that is what I am sticking with. So, yah, booh, sucks and whang your head down the bog if you disagree. I DON'T CARE! You read it here first.
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Times Online (Free subscription) | 28/09/2008
ANOTHER sunny Saturday, another ultimately emphatic defeat for British tennis. But whereas last week’s Davis Cup demise once again underlined the fact Andy Murray stands in a class of his own in the men’s game, Laura Robson had already done more than enough in her early tiptoeing into the professional game to suggest decades of paucity on the female side may be at an end.
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Daily Mail (Free subscription) | 27/09/2008
No one likes him, he doesn't care - especially since becoming the first Briton to reach a Grand Slam final in 11 years. Piers Hernu met the new, calmer Andy Murray...the man who doesn't even like himself on court.
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Daily Mail (Free subscription) | 27/09/2008
Andy Murray's big tennis breakthrough is down to the extra flexibility he's gained from a new form of an age-old discipline.
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The Herald (Free subscription) | 24/09/2008
John Lloyd, the Great Britain captain, will seek confirmation from Andy Murray that he will be willing to play in the Davis Cup tie against Ukraine next spring on a surface yet to be decided.
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topSPIN me (Free subscription) | 24/09/2008
This week...US Open finalist Andy Murray debuts at number 8, as if Rafael Nadal and Novak Djokovic are not enough young guns to keep Roger Federer company. Meanwhile, another missed opportunity for Jelena Jankovic to rise in the rankings via the Toray Pan Pacific Open keeps her at the lower part of the top ten, and is barely edging out multiple Grand Slam champion Venus Williams. 1 RAFAEL NADAL 350...
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Times Online (Free subscription) | 24/09/2008
Gavin Fletcher, the LTA's events and tournaments director, was phoning around Britain yesterday to find a city that has a hall free in the first week of March to stage a Davis Cup tie that must mark a sea change in attitude and application in British tennis. Hopefully, someone will be happy to put on a show that could be sparky.
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The Telegraph (Free subscription) | 23/09/2008
Poor Andy Murray. Often derided for his apparent lack of interest in the British cause at least he turned up over the weekend.