Murray Advances With Win Over Kamke


Andy Murray faced just one
break point in his win against
Tobias Kamke Wednesday.

World No. 4 Andy Murray continued his 2011 grass-court form Wednesday at the All England Club, defeating Tobias Kamke 6-3, 6-3, 7-5 in the second round of the 125th Wimbledon Championships.

The recent AEGON Championships titlist was confident on serve, winning 74 per cent of his service points while only facing one break point to take the pair’s first meeting. "I served well, especially when I was behind in games," Murray said after his win.

"It was quite windy on the court which made it tricky, and I thought he hit the ball very well from the back of the court.  I could have returned a little bit better. But straight sets, so I've got to be pleased with that... [I've got to improve for the next match."

In the third round, the two-time Wimbledon semi-finalist will square off against Ivan Ljubicic, a 6-4, 6-4, 6-2 winner over Sergiy Stakhovsky. The two are tied at 3-3 in their head-to-head series. "He serves well. That always makes it difficult," said Murray. "I have to make sure I return well, which I did very well at Queen's. I'll need to do the same thing again on Friday."

Simone Bolelli ousted 14th-seeded Stanislas Wawrinka in a second-round encounter, taking the match 7-6(5), 6-3, 7-6(4).

The unseeded Italian had lost his two previous matches to the Swiss, both coming on hard courts, but reversed his fortunes Wednesday with steady play at the net, winning 24 of 30 points when he came forward.

Bolleli is looking to reach the round of 16 at a Grand Slam event for the first time, and can achieve the result should he defeat No. 17 seed Richard Gasquet in the third round.

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Wimbledon 2011 - wywiad po zwyciĂŞstwie w 3 rundzie

A. Murray bt. I. Ljubicic 6-4, 4-6, 6-1, 7-6

Q. How you feeling?

ANDY MURRAY: I feel good, yeah. Feel good.

Q. Tougher than you expected?

ANDY MURRAY: No, not at all. I thought it was an excellent match. I thought both of us played very well. I thought it was very high standard. Played one bad game, well, the first game of the second set was a bad game. Apart from that, I thought it was a very high standard.

Both of us played well. A lot of good rallies. I felt like I hit the ball from the back of the court way better than the last match. I thought Ljubicic played very well, too.

Q. Did you slightly turn off at the start of the second set?

ANDY MURRAY: Well, no. I played a bad game. That happens sometimes. You do play bad games. I was disappointed with that game. Both of us were struggling a bit behind our second serves. Very heavy conditions.

I think, you know, I probably won about 40, 45% of my second serve points, and he won 35 to 40%. We were both just the ball was sitting up nicely on the second serve for both of us. He was going for huge returns. That was obviously his game plan, and he returned well off the second serve.

But, uhm, yeah, I didn't serve particularly well the beginning of the second set.

Q. You said you'd give us a hot dog shot here at Wimbledon when you were at Queen's and you did.

ANDY MURRAY: Yeah, I did. You know, doesn't happen that often when you get yourself in that sort of position. I went for it and made it. I'm sure at some point I'm going to miss one and look silly.

Q. Got a name for it?

ANDY MURRAY: Well, no. I've never really seen anyone do it before. So I don't know. Don't know what it's called. I'd never done it either in any matches or anything until Queen's.

Q. Was this better than the last one?

ANDY MURRAY: Different. They're different, because this time Ljubicic was sort of at the net. I don't know. I don't know. They were both good.

But I don't know which one was better, because the shot tonight, his ball was coming it was maybe an easier height to do it off; whereas Tsonga's one was coming a bit higher and I got a better angle on it. They were both good.

Q. You felt you didn't have any option but to play that shot?

ANDY MURRAY: Well, I mean, it's like when someone goes for a through the leg shot. You always can try to do other things. You just kind of do what's most comfortable or what you feel. It's like sometimes you're taught how to move a certain way, but when you actually get on the court, you tend to move whatever is the most efficient way.

Like, you know, some guys feel like going for the through the leg shot is the easiest shot for them at that time. I very rarely try a through the leg shot the other way. I always try to put up a lob.

But, yeah, for that shot, if the ball is sort of coming towards you and you've got a chance to do it, yeah, I just went for it. I mean, I'm sure I could have played a different shot.

Q. Laura and Elena lost today. You're the last Brit sort of standing yet again. I guess you're used to that?

ANDY MURRAY: Yeah. Yeah, I'm used to it. It's been like that the last few years.

Q. Did you see any of Laura's match today?

ANDY MURRAY: I actually saw a little bit of the end of the first set. I was warming up for my match when she started. But I heard she played well.

Q. Very encouraging to push somebody like Sharapova on a big court like that.

ANDY MURRAY: Yeah, it's good. That's a good sign that she's able to do it. But, you know, to get to that level, you need to do it at the challengers and at the smaller events and get your ranking up that way. So that's what the challenge is for her and for James Ward, you know, to get up and play in these tournaments all the time.

You know, they can play at this level clearly, by Laura's result today and the way she played, the way James played at Queen's. You know, they need to sort of carry on and maintain that level when they're playing when there's no one watching when you're playing the futures and the challengers. That's the best way to get up in the rankings.

Q. Does it feel slightly strange that three matches in you haven't actually played on Centre Court with the roof open?

ANDY MURRAY: Yeah, I mean, it is different. The conditions are, you know, obviously different. That's why the next couple days' practice will be more to make sure I get some hitting outdoors. The serving and stuff is very different when you're sort of under a roof.

So, yeah, I need to make sure the next couple days' practice I get enough time on the court, and I'll play some points probably on Sunday.

Q. How big a bonus is that, to have two days before you play on Monday? You're the only one of the top four already through to the second week. Rafa has to come back again tomorrow.

ANDY MURRAY: Well, I mean, I don't know. I don't know how much of an advantage it is. Most of the time on the grass, the matches aren't too physical, you know. So one day off is normally good.

But have to wait and see if it's an advantage or not. But, uhm, you know, the next couple days, like I say, it's important to keep the intensity up, make sure you keep focused, do all the right things the next couple of days, because we're used to sort of getting into our routines of playing one day, day off the next. Obviously now I've got a couple days. I need to make sure I do the right things.

Q. Gasquet, how do you see that?

ANDY MURRAY: Tough match. He's won all his matches pretty comfortably so far. He plays very well on grass. He's comfortable on the surface. It's going to be tough.

Q. Where does that match you played against him three years ago rank in your sort of great matches?

ANDY MURRAY: It was up there in terms of just for the way I came back and I was pretty much, yeah, out of the match. I think he served for the match at 5 4 in the third set, up two sets to nothing.

Same thing at the French Open actually a couple years ago. It's good to have in the back of my mind when I go in against him in a match like this. Even if I go behind, I can come back against him.

You know, that will be, I think for him, a tough thing. It's happened twice in big matches against me. So, uhm, I expect it to be a very difficult match. But the one that I played with him here was one of the most memorable for me. It was a long time ago now, though.

Q. (Question regarding the relationship with the crowd.)

ANDY MURRAY: It was the first match where I really, yeah, had to come back from a big deficit. There are matches that I think the crowd and, you know, people tend to remember here. There's been a lot of them obviously over the years.

Tim played a lot of long sort of five set matches. That was really the first one when I was sort of coming through and playing on Centre Court, getting the chance to sort of get comfortable on that court.

That was probably the first one that really was, yeah, a big comeback from me. I think there was a lot of sort of interaction with the crowd. They really got behind me. It makes a big difference.

Q. Is Gasquet somebody that you maybe would have expected to have done better at the slams?

ANDY MURRAY: No. I mean, for me, knowing how difficult it is, you don't expect anyone to do anything. You know, guys like him, he's obviously very, very talented. He's an excellent player.

On his day, he can play great tennis. But the consistency is something that's been difficult for a lot of players. I've had problems with it the last couple of years at certain tournaments, certain periods of the year.

You can't really take anything for granted just because he has really nice strokes and he's very talented. You've got to have more than that to get the whole way deep into Grand Slams on a regular basis. It's a very tough thing to do.

Q. But clearly somebody who has got the talent to go all the way?

ANDY MURRAY: He's a very talented player, yeah. I played him many times. I grew up playing with him. He was always one of the best juniors growing up. He's been in the top 10 in the world before. He's beaten Federer a few months ago in Rome. He's given guys a lot of problems in the past.

Like I said, two times I played him in slams, I was down two sets and a break both times. He's a tough guy.

Q. How pleased were you today with the way you reacted to the difficulties that the match presented?

ANDY MURRAY: Yeah, I mean, I think I did a good job of keeping my energy high for most of the match. Third set was very good. Went away and had a toilet break between sets, thought about what I was going to do.

Got up early in the third set. Played a very good third set. Obviously when I served for the match and didn't get it, you know, I think I did well in the tiebreak to stay focused and come through the fourth set. Because it's always tough when you serve for matches, and then to finish the match off after that is difficult, so I think I did well.

Q. If you get through on Monday and LĂłpez keeps winning, I'm curious who you think your mum might be supporting if you meet Deliciano?

ANDY MURRAY: I think it's about time she stopped with that nonsense. Makes me want to throw up. It's disgusting. Yeah, it's disgusting.

I was practising with him before the tournament. It's quite funny because she'd been writing about it on, you know, Twitter like all the time. And I was practising with him before the tournament and my mom was on the side.

I said, when we were warming up, I shouted across the net, I said, Feli, if we sit down for a drink, if you could take a picture with my mom, because she thinks you're beautiful.

She went bright red. I'm not doing it. I'm not doing it. Refused to take the picture. Quite funny. Not like her.

Yeah, I hope she'll still be supporting me.

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Wimbledon 2011 - wywiad po zwyciĂŞstwie w 4 rundzie

A. Murray bt. R. Gasquet 7 6, 6 3, 6 2

Q. In previous matches obviously it seemed much tougher. Today you were very assertive. Looked pretty straightforward in the end.

ANDY MURRAY: Yeah, the second and third sets were much better. First set I returned poorly, so I wasn't able to get into any of his service games at all. I definitely didn't get to deuce. I had no breakpoints in the first set, but managed to string a few good points together in the tiebreak. I served well throughout, which helped.

But, yeah, first set was tough 'cause I hardly made a return in the court.

Q. Were you struggling to get a read on it at the start?

ANDY MURRAY: No, it wasn't that. I was reading it fine. I just was making bad contact with the ball. Puts a lot of slice on his serve. It was very different conditions also today. It was very quick compared with a couple days ago under the roof.

So it took a while to get used to that, too.

Q. How did you find the heat out there?

ANDY MURRAY: Yeah, it was hot. I mean, we haven't played I do a lot of training in Miami to try to get used to it. The last few months pretty much all of the tournaments, the French Open wasn't particularly hot, and obviously the last few weeks here has been cold, too. So it was definitely a bit of a shock.

Q. After three matches, what's pleasing you most about your game and what's pleasing you the least about your game?

ANDY MURRAY: Serving well. As I say, there's not been anything I've been really unhappy with. Today, like I said, I didn't return well the first set. Uhm, but serve's been good. I haven't got broken too many times.

Return is normally one of the stronger parts of my game. If I can keep returning well, keep serving like I have been, I give myself a chance in a lot of matches.

Q. The third set, the way you played, that's what you need to go all the way?

ANDY MURRAY: Yeah, I mean, you need to hold on to your own serve on grass when the conditions were playing like they were today, when it's quick. I've been told it's meant to be hopefully warming up a bit.

But you need to serve very well. The court gets quicker, too, the more it's played on, so serve becomes more important as the two weeks go on.

But, yeah, I need to play my best tennis if I want to win.

Q. What was it like playing in front of the Royal couple? Do you feel any extra pressure when you have such high profile guests in the crowd?

ANDY MURRAY: No, you don't. You have to try and, you know, focus on what your job is. That's trying to get the job done on the court. You can enjoy it afterwards.

I didn't know they were coming. I wasn't told. So as I was walking to the court I don't know if he's, someone from the Evening Standard told me. Is he here? Yeah, he told me that Kate and Pippa were coming. I didn't know if it was true, because no one else had heard anything. Yeah, obviously I saw them when I went out.

Yeah, it's obviously great to get the chance to play in front of them. But when you're playing the match you're not focusing on that.

Q. You had the wherewithal to make a bow.

ANDY MURRAY: Yeah. Well, I was obviously very happy after the match. I think that was the right thing to do.

Q. It came across as very funny. William and Kate laughed; you smiled. It was an amusing thing. Was it something you planned before?

ANDY MURRAY: No, I hadn't planned on doing it before. When the queen came to our match last year we were told she was coming and that we would bow when we went on and off the court.

But today we weren't told anything, so it was just, yeah, sort of off the cuff. Yeah, didn't think too much about it. If it was funny, that's fine, but I wasn't intending it to be funny.

Q. Did you get to meet them afterwards?

ANDY MURRAY: Yeah, I did. If I'd known they were coming, I would have shaved (smiling). I was thinking to myself as I came off I was sweaty and very hairy. I said to them, I'm sorry, I'm a bit sweaty. But, yeah, it was really nice.

Like for me those things are always quite difficult because there's a lot of people around, so it's not the most natural way to be introduced to people.

But it was very nice to get to meet them.

Q. What did they say to you?

ANDY MURRAY: Just, Well done on the match. Asked me how it was out there. That was it. Wasn't a long conversation.

Q. Any superstition behind your not shaving?

ANDY MURRAY: No, not at all. No. I might shave tonight.

Q. Do you have any actual superstitions that you do before a match?

ANDY MURRAY: No. I used to be more. No, I don't. The problem with having superstitions is, you know, you become very sort of attached to them. Then, you know, if you always go in the same shower and then you finish your practice and you go to have a shower and someone's in it, you're not obviously going to jump in there. Well, you could, but I choose not to. (Smiling.)

So, yeah, I try not to have any superstitions.

Q. You used to?

ANDY MURRAY: No, I didn't. I think Tim said he used to always go in the same shower. A few people said to me, Maybe he should have changed when he got to the semifinals (smiling). Just meant to be a joke.

But, yeah, I try not to have any superstitions. When I'm on the court I sometimes have my bottle, my water bottle, facing the way that I'm like sort of going. It was more to remind myself how much I've drunk rather than anything else.

But, yeah, don't have too many superstitions.

Q. Given the unreliability of Royal arrivals here, do you think you should shave every match just in case they turn up?

ANDY MURRAY: Uhm, yeah, I've been told to shave by a few people the last five or six days, and I just haven't got round to it. It's at the length now where it actually hurts a little bit, so I always put it off a wee bit till I have a bit of time.

Q. Until you're brave enough?

ANDY MURRAY: It hurts around here. My hair is starting to get more manly now. It hurts a little bit. (Smiling.)

Q. Is that a cry for a Gillette sponsorship deal?

ANDY MURRAY: Maybe, yeah. The thing is, I wouldn't have the discipline. I think all the Gillette athletes have to shave every day. I think they have to be clean shaven. I probably wouldn't be able to keep that up.

Q. If you have to play Deliciano next, do you think your mum would be barred from the box?

ANDY MURRAY: No, I don't know what the score is. I think it was two sets to one. I'm not sure if he's going to come through. Looks like a tough one.

Q. What do you have to do to win the tournament in terms of improving your game from here now?

ANDY MURRAY: You just need to keep improving each match. I think the match in the third round, for me, was a really good test. It was a tough match. I thought both of us played well. You just need to just keep improving a little bit each round. It all comes down to taking your chances when you play against the best players.

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Wimbledon 2011 - wywiad po pora¿ce w pó³finale

A. Murray def. by R. Nadal 7-5, 2-6, 2-6, 4-6

Q. A lot of the commentators are talking about that forehand that you missed in the fourth game of the second set as being the turning point. Is that how you see it in your mind?

ANDY MURRAY: Uhm, I mean, it was a big point. I was playing very high risk tennis for most of the match. I went for it today, and I started to make a few mistakes after that.

But it's not like yeah, I mean, you can't talk about a match that goes almost three hours being, you know, decided based on one point. Again, like I say, I was going for it. Against Rafa you have to go for big shots. I slightly overhit that one.

But, again, they would be the same ones that would have said a year ago that I would have been playing too defensively. Today I was going for all my shots, and I started to make some mistakes afterwards.

But, yeah, that point was one that I should have won for sure.

Q. Are you proud of what you've done over the last fortnight, Andy?

ANDY MURRAY: It's been a good tournament. I think it could have been better today. I wish I didn't make as many mistakes afterwards. But that's the thing. Sometimes I've come off the court and thought, Hmm, maybe I should have taken a few more chances.

Then today it's kind of the other way. I went for it and started making mistakes. It was good for a set and a little bit, then went the other way.

But the tournament as a whole has been good. I would have liked to have finished better.

Q. Looked like you moved back a little from the baseline after the first set.

ANDY MURRAY: I don't know. I was still going for my shots. I don't know if I did. Normally against Rafa or against any top player you can't dictate the whole match. The first set Rafa struggled a little bit on his backhand side.

Once he started hitting his backhand better, naturally I wasn't going to be able to play right next to the baseline like I was in the first set.

But you're going to have to go through periods in matches against the best players where you're having to do a bit of the running. I thought for the most part I was trying to dictate the play.

Q. Is this one harder to take because you were ahead?

ANDY MURRAY: No, I don't think so. They're all tough. But I don't think so. I mean, no, I don't think it is.

Q. A couple of times you clutched your hip, your stomach, grimaced. Did it play any part today? Were you feeling it at all?

ANDY MURRAY: My hip was sore like right at the beginning of the match. After I saw the physio, took like a painkiller, it was fine. I hardly felt my hip after that.

But, yeah, I mean, sometimes like on the grass and on a lot of surfaces, you know, once you play a lot of tennis on it, it gets quite sore in the knee. Rafa's I think had quite a few problems on the grass with his knees.

It's more sort of when you're stopping suddenly rather than sort of during the points. It's maybe when you're like a full on stretch, but it's nothing serious.

Q. Do you feel you threw it away today, Andy?

ANDY MURRAY: Threw it away? No, I don't think so.

Q. Can you put into words what makes it so difficult playing against Rafa, especially on grass, and the pressure you're constantly under?

ANDY MURRAY: Every time I play him I explain the same thing. It's tough. He makes a lot of balls. He's very good when he's behind. He's one of the best players ever, and a great athlete on top of that.

So, you know, even when he's not hitting the ball unbelievable from the middle of the court, he gets to a lot of balls, makes you play an extra ball all the time. And eventually today, like after the first set and a half, when I started making mistakes, he raised his game and started playing better and capitalized on it.

Q. What did you think of the crowd support?

ANDY MURRAY: I thought it was good. I mean, when you're in the middle of the match, you know, you hear it more sort of like at the end of a set or if you get a break of serve. You know, it's not like you're focusing on it sort of every single point.

So I'm probably not the best one to judge. But I thought it was good.

Q. Could you talk about what it's like to get so far on these big stages and just not be able to push it through to the end?

ANDY MURRAY: It's tough. It's tough. But, you know, I'm giving it my best shot each time. I'm trying my hardest. That's all you can do. So I don't know. It's a difficult question to answer. I can't explain exactly how I feel.

I'm disappointed. But normally, like after four or five days bar after Australia the last couple years I've recovered relatively quickly from losing because I'm just trying to get better.

I feel like I'm playing better tennis than I was last year at this point. I don't know. It's difficult.

Q. Do you ever cry?

ANDY MURRAY: Yeah, I've done it before in front of probably most of the people in here in Australia. But not today.

Q. There's been a lot of chat from the Nadal camp about his injury problems. There was no evidence of that today. Mardy Fish didn't see any in the previous round. Did you think Nadal was injured?

ANDY MURRAY: Rafa doesn't feign injury. Everyone has problems this stage of the season because it's so like going from the French to the grass. And Rafa obviously in the last few months has played so many matches on the clay. I think he played the maximum amount of matches he could have played.

Yeah, probably rather than it being like a huge injury, he's going to be feeling pain because his body's tired, like everyone is. Yeah, sometimes it's worse than others.

I don't know. You have to ask him exactly how bad it is. I don't know.

Q. Tactically it was going great for you first set and a bit. Is there any other way you could have done it?

ANDY MURRAY: Yeah. You can beat him by playing patient. When I've beaten him in the past I've beaten him at the US Open and the Australian Open I played a little bit more patient. You know, and today, yeah, I maybe got the balance a little bit wrong.

But, yeah, you need to try and find a way. Each time you play against one of the best players you need to play slightly differently each time because they're going to change their game against you. You have to make adjustments.

Q. Does it get easier or more difficult to handle, getting to this stage?

ANDY MURRAY: No idea. I don't know.

Q. You're saying you're going to take a few days, you generally can recover from something like this quite quickly. Can you explain what you'll do over the next coming days and what you can learn from today?

ANDY MURRAY: Work harder than I ever did before. Try and improve my game and get stronger. Be more professional. Yeah, try and learn from what happened today. Yeah, think about the things that I need to improve.

Yeah, that's all you can do. You've just got to work harder than you have done in the past to get better. It's a very tough era I think in tennis. Tennis right at the top of the game is exceptional.

So not only to get level with those guys, but to push past them, you need to work harder than them. That's what I need to try to do.

Q. Will you try to go to the fight tomorrow or will you just watch it on the box?

ANDY MURRAY: That's the last thing I was thinking about. I have no idea. I don't know.

Q. What one stroke do you think you could improve?

ANDY MURRAY: I don't know. It's a tough one. My forehand today at the start of the match was excellent, and then for a set and a bit I was going for the shots but just missing them.

So I need to have a bit more consistency there. 'Cause if I hit it like I did in the first set throughout the match, I think it probably would have been a slightly different story. At the same time, when you're playing high risk tennis you're going to make mistakes.

I don't know which one shot in particular I need to improve. But today I would have cut down on some of the unforced errors.

Q. You and Rafa have spoken about your friendship. Does it take even a slight edge off the fact that you've lost to a friend?

ANDY MURRAY: No. No. Same feeling. I mean, I always support Rafa when I watch him, but when I play against him I want to win. So it doesn't change regardless of really who you're playing against. It's still just as bad.

Q. What are your thoughts on Novak rising to No. 1?

ANDY MURRAY: He deserves it 'cause he's hardly lost a match this year, so... He's played great tennis and deserves it.

Q. Will you think about your coaching situation?

ANDY MURRAY: No idea. No idea. I'll practise hard. I've got Davis Cup next week. Then, yeah, I've got a training block before the American stretch. Things have been going pretty well the last few months. The way they've been now, I've got a good, good chance.

Since I started working with Darren and Danny together, I haven't really had much time to do like a training block or do any sort of long periods with them because you've been playing tournaments the whole time.

Now I've got four weeks after Davis Cup before MontrĂŠal. See what I can work on.

Q. Who do you think will win the final?

ANDY MURRAY: I don't know. Depends who plays better on the day. But they're both playing great tennis. Rafa's got probably a bit more experience than Novak, so that will help him.

But, yeah, it depends who plays better.

Q. You said you need to work harder. Do you feel like maybe you don't work hard enough?

ANDY MURRAY: I work hard. Really, really hard.

Q. So what do you exactly mean when you say you feel you should work harder?

ANDY MURRAY: I need to work 2, 3% harder than I do just now and push myself to be the best athlete that I can be. Every week, every month you learn something new in your training, in your matches, in practice, your diet, the gym, the training that you do. I just need to try and get better.

But I work really, really hard, so that's not been the problem. I just need to work a little bit harder, get better.

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