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Australian Open R3: Andy Murray vs Roberto Baustista Agut
Aileen
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So Andy lost.  Absolutely extraordinary performance really given the circumstances.
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althusser
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He certainly made the world take notice again this week.
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Elvis77
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He broke Murray without actually winning a point .I take it there not very friendly going by that reaction from the Spaniard.
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counter_ puncher
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After the first set, when I feared the worst, Andy made it a close match. With a little luck towards the end, he could have wrestled the momentum back, but eventually he was running out of steam, understandably. My comm Boris Becker (!) remarked after the Kokkinakis match that the scheduling robbed Andy of a fair chance to compete on the highest level.
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Caz
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Quote from: counter_ puncher on January 21, 2023, 11:57 am
After the first set, when I feared the worst, Andy made it a close match. With a little luck towards the end, he could have wrestled the momentum back, but eventually he was running out of steam, understandably. My comm Boris Becker (!) remarked after the Kokkinakis match that the scheduling robbed Andy of a fair chance to compete on the highest level.
Thanks for that CP! I'm in total agreement with Mr Becker! Nobody could have done better under those circumstances! Andy was robbed!
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waverlybear
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Quote from: Aileen on January 21, 2023, 11:45 am
So Andy lost.  Absolutely extraordinary performance really given the circumstances.

I agree.  If he had won, playing the next match on an even emptier tank would have been a nightmare.  In a way I’d rather see him go down fighting than witness that.
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counter_ puncher
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Quote from: althusser on January 21, 2023, 11:45 am
He certainly made the world take notice again this week.

This is very satisfying. Many people who do not follow tennis outside GS were certainly not even aware that he was still playing. And he so deserves making the headlines here.
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waverlybear
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Russell Fuller’s twitter comment.

“14 hours and 3 minutes of the very best entertainment ends with Andy Murray falling in 4 sets to Roberto Bautista Agut. Makes you wonder (after a week in the ice bath) what Murray might be able to do for the rest of the season.”

It certainly does!
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Aileen
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^ Ditto!
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counter_ puncher
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Very promising performance from Andy. Pro-active play, resilience, smart tennis. Some of it was painfully missed over the past years. Long may it continue!
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Aileen
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Quote from "The Scotsman" online

"Murray trudged off the court dejectedly after the defeat and he will be mightily disappointed not to have prevailed. But given the drama of earlier in the week, given his physical challenges of the past few years, given his metal hip, given his advancing years, this was a successful tournament for the three-Slam winner. He has added to a bulging catalogue of great moments in this quite glorious tennis career and what these past few matches have shown is that Murray’s fire still burns bright, and that we still have good times to come from this extraordinary sportsman, even in the twilight of his time on the court."
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Stell
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Many thanks for the link.  I hoped he'd win it, but the last match would have worn him out and taken it out of him.
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Aileen
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According to the BBC Andy was struggling with blisters on his feet and had constant pain in his lower back which affected his serve.

From Andy himself -

"I feel like I gave everything that I had to this event so I'm proud of that.  That is really, in whatever you're doing, all you can do. You can't always control the outcome. You can't control how well you're going to play or the result.  You can control the effort that you put into it, and I gave everything that I had the last three matches."

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/tennis/64357386
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waverlybear
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I bet  writing this tweet by Andy felt  good.


https://twitter.com/andy_murray/status/1616819150453870594?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Etweet
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Aileen
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^ I bet he did too!
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