Hmmm. I think Mr Murray's priority for the next round would be, at this point, showing up free of injury and continuing free of injury. Which would almost certainly, barring something quite exceptional, put him in a good position vis a vis whoever survives the Monfils/Simon match.

-- Edited by Spectator on Saturday 19th of January 2013 12:56:05 PM

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Is he OK? There was a suggestion of injury at one point in the commentary ....

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Looks fine, just playing rubbish. His serve is getting him out of trouble but his all round play is dire.

I think 'dreadful', 'dire' and 'rubbish' is overstating it a bit.
Agreed though that he's not playing well by the superlative standards he sets, and has set.

AliBlahBlah wrote:

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I think 'dreadful', 'dire' and 'rubbish' is overstating it a bit.
Agreed though that he's not playing well by the superlative standards he sets, and has set.

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How about we settle for his own words "nonsense" and "garbage"

Andy's in match commentary on his own performance is only ever negative. Did he ever exclaim (without sarcasm) "fantastic", "Superlative", "that was great!" or anything similar?
So I'm not convinced that his vocabulary in that context is useful - there wouldn't be any positive words in it.
Do the Man U thing win ugly if necessary, but win.
He didn't play great at times at USO or the Olympics, but did alright.

Del Potro and Cilic have both lost in 5 sets. If Andy makes the QFs he will play the winner of Chardy v Seppi

Comes through 6-3, 6-4, 7-5

Needs to play better in the next round.