Are You Ready for the Beast? ; Australian Open Tennis: Murray Faces an Awesome Test of His Rise in the Rankings As He Clinches a Showdown with Mean Machine Nadal
Mail on Sunday › January 21, 2007
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AT 11.20pm on a rainy night in Melbourne, Andy Murray won the right to measure his game against the muscular extravagance of Rafael Nadal, the world No 2 and the game's premier showman. It is a contest that will tell the Scot just how far he has travelled in so short a time.
In avenging last year's defeat by Juan Ignacio Chela in the same Vodafone Arena, Murray became just the third British man to arrive in the last 16 of the Australian Open, following in the footsteps of Tim Henman and John Lloyd.See the full content of this document
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Are You Ready for the Beast? ; Australian Open Tennis: Murray Faces an Awesome Test of His Rise in the Rankings As He Clinches a Showdown with Mean Machine Nadal
His rendezvous with reigning French Open champion and Wimbledon runner-up Nadal will be his first exposure to a player of such proven, world-beating class at this stage of a Grand Slam. He cannot wait.
'I said that I'd like to play against him this year, but I didn't expect it to come so soon,' sa...See the full content of this document
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