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STICKY:
Battle for the top three
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People are, not surprisingly, starting to think about how soon Andy will have a chance to break into the top three. He can't quite do it (even theoretically) by the end of the year, though he could get very close in the unlikely event that he won everything and Nole didn't win another match, but obviousl...
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STICKY:
Andy's schedule for 2013
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30 December 2012 - Brisbane 250 14 January 2013 - Australian Open 4 March - Indian Wells Masters 18 March - Miami Masters 15 April - Monte Carlo 1000 6 May - Madrid Masters 13 May - Rome Masters 27 May - French Open (withdrew - lower back pain) 11 June - Queens 25 June - Wimbledon 6 August - Canada 12 August - Ci...
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STICKY:
Andy's schedule for 2012
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1 Jan Brisbane 250 13 Jan Kooyong exhibition 16 Jan Australian Open GS 27 Feb Dubai 500 8 Mar Indian Wells 1000 21 Mar Miami 1000 15 Apr Monte Carlo 1000 (counts as 500 for commitment) 23 Apr Barcelona 500 6 May Madrid 1000 - withdrawn due to back injury 13 May Rome 1000 27 May Roland...
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STICKY:
Forum Code of Conduct
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Code of Conduct can be found HERE
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Week 20 - ATP Masters 1000 - Rome (Clay)
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Good draw for Andy. Possible opponents R1: Bye R2: Davydenko / Granollers R3: Nishikori QF: Del Potro / Almagro SF: Federer / Tsonga -- Edited by RJA on Saturday 11th of May 2013 04:18:20 PM
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Week 19 - ATP Masters 1000 - Madrid (clay)
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L32: (3) Andy Murray WR 3 vs Florian Mayer (GER) WR 26 Mayer defeated Matosevic by 6-2 6-7(3) 6-4. Andy had a walkover into the last 16 against him at the Shanghai Masters last year & beat him by 1-6 6-1 6-1 at the Rome Masters in 2011. The other seeds in Andy's quarter of the draw are Berd-Brain (6...
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Week 16 - ATP Masters 1000 - Monte Carlo (Clay)
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The draw is out. Likely opponents R1: Bye R2: Haase or qualifier R3: Wawrinka / Monfils QF: Tsonga / Almagro SF: Nadal / Tipsarevic F: Djokovic / Berdych / Del Potro
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Week 12 - ATP Masters 1000 - Miami, USA (Hard)
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Neither Federer or Nadal competing here so a good opportunity for Andy. He has RUP points from last year to defend Possible opponents include R2: Tomic R3: Dimitrov R4: Seppi / Janowicz QF: Tsonga / Cilic SF: Berdych / Gasquet F: Djokovic / Ferrer / Del Potro -- Edited by RJA on Monday 18th of March 2013 0...
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Week 10 - ATP Masters 1000 - Indian Wells, CA, USA (Hard)
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L64: (3) Andy Murray WR 3 v Evgeny Donskoy (RUS) WR 83 (CH 68 last month) or Tatsuma Ito (JPN) WR 84 (CH 60 last Oct) H2H 0-0 v Donskoy, 1-0 v Ito (RG R1 last year, 1, 5 & 0) Andy is in Nole's half. Not sure whether it is that relevant at this stage, but Rafa is in the Fed/Ferrer half. in Fed's quarter. -- Edit...
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Rafa out of Aus Open ?
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Read in the Times today that Rafa wasn't ruling out his injury layoff including the Aus open. If Andy can be No.2 by then it certainly opens up the possibility of another Big 3 free run to the final ....
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Please Answer our questions on tennis equipment
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Hello, We are Team Revolution, a group of undergraduate students from Kingston University. For our new product development assignment we are examining the UK tennis racket market.... We would like you to participate in our research by completing the following survey. These questions will take n...
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AM.com forum closed down.
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What a shame. Definitely going to be less engaged now with Andy's matches. I don't use twitter or facebook, so that is not going to help. There is still murraysworld, but never used that. I may check it out. -- Edited by steven on Thursday 18th of August 2011 12:46:35 PM
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Weeks 3-4 - Australian Open (men's)
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L128: (3) Andy Murray WR 3 v Robin Haase (NED) WR 54 (CH 33 last July) Haase has given Muzz problems in the past, upsetting him in Rotterdam in 2008 and going 2 sets up against him at the US Open in 2011 before Andy came back to win in 5. The winner of this match will play Sousa or (WC) Smith in R2, with the rest of...
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Week 1 - ATP 250 - Brisbane, Australia - hard
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The defending champion here, Andy Murray OBE will play Ito or a qualifier in R2 and is then seeded to meet (8) Klizan in the QFs and (4) Dolgopolov or (5) Nishikori in the SFs, with (2) Raonic and (3) Simon the top seeds in the bottom half of the draw.
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ATP Year-End "Holiday" video
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Courtney Nguyen (@si_btbaseline) tweets a link to a rather amusing ATP Year End video. Evidently, they can't use footage from the non-ATP tournaments ... so no Grand Slams and no Olympics. Hence we get lots of footage of Djokovic and the Bryans at the year-end championships. But when they say that i...
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Andy taking questions on twitter...
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....about his passion for football on the FIFA twitter feed on Tuesday 11th December at 4.30 pm : http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/tennis/article-2244477/Andy-Murray-turns-football-pundit-FIFA-website.html?ito=feeds-newsxml Careful what you say about football, Andy -- Edite...
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Brisbane Entry List
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1 Murray, Andy GBR 3 2 Raonic, Milos CAN 13 3 Simon, Gilles FRA 16 4 Dolgopolov, Alexandr UKR 18 5 Nishikori, Kei JPN 19 6 Mayer, Florian GER 28 7 Melzer, Jurgen AUT 29 8 Klizan, Martin SVK 30 9 Stepanek, Radek CZE 31 10 Benneteau, Julien FRA 35 11 Baghdatis, Marcos CYP 36 12 Nieminen, Jarkko FIN 41 13 Istomin...
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The thoughts of Ivan...
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http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/tennis/20363282 Can see himself being with Andy for the rest of his career. Seems to think there is much more to be improved on in Andy's game than Andy frequently appears to
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Week 45 - ATP World Tour Finals - London (indoor hard)
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Group A ( starts Monday ) : Djokovic, Murray, Berdych, Tsonga Group B ( starts Tuesday ) : Federer, Ferrer, Del Potro, Tipsarevic Clearly overall A is the tougher group, but largely because it is the one Murray is in rather than Ferrer. As for Andy himself, I don't think it's that bad. I kind of th...
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Week 44: ATP Masters 1000 - Paris (Indoor Hard)
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L32: (3) Andy Murray v (WC) Paul-Henri Mathieu (FRA) WR 101 (CH 12 in 2008) or Qualifier PHM is likely to rise sharply on Monday - he's playing the Fed in the semi-finals in Basel later today! Cilic is the first seed Andy is likely to meet, then Tipsy or Mónaco are potential QF opponents, Fed in the same hal...
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Andy out of Basel
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..again back related. Hopefully just a sensible precuation. http://www.sportsmole.co.uk/tennis/news/murray-withdraws-from-basel_50594.html
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Week 41 - ATP Masters 1000 - Shanghai
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R1: (3) Andy Murray vs BYE **** R2: (3) Andy Murray vs Bernard Tomic (AUS) or Florian Mayer (GER) Assuming they both get that far, he'll face John Isner (6) in the QF. Fed's back in action as the top seed here &, therefore, in Andy's half of the [URL=http://www.atpworldtour.com/posting/2012...
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Week 40 - ATP 500 - Tokyo, Japan (Hard)
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Potential route to the title: R1: Monfils R2: Ramos or Lacko QF: Wawrinka SF: Tipsarevic or Raonic F: Berdych/Monaco/Nishikori/Almagro -- Edited by Stircrazy on Monday 1st of October 2012 12:12:45 PM
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Murray v Federer Gold Medal Match geovisualisation. A new look at tennis analytics
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Hi All,Recently I have been doing some work on geovisualizing tennis match data (by way of a map or graphic). I put out a blog recently about a visualisation project that mapped the Murray v Federer Olympic Gold Medal match. I thought it might interest you all? http://blogs.esri.com/esri/arcgis...
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Week 35-36: US Open - Hard
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Draw has been made. Andy has Bogomolov Jr. in rd1 Potential route to the title: Rd1. Bogomolov Jr. Rd2. Ivan Dodig Rd3. Feliciano Lopez Rd4. Milos Raonic Qf. Jo-Wilfred Tsonga SF. Federer F. Djokovic
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