This No.3 Tennis player is From British.
For many, particularly the BBC, the biggest sporting highlight of the year begins next week on the grass courts of Wimbledon, the most famous tennis tournament in the world. As usual, we have just the one Briton who has any chance at all of winning and if Andy Murray can remain scratch free, then on ability alone, he has at least an outside chance of doing so at some point in the near future.
There is no doubt that Murray is one of the best players in the world, he has worked hard over the last few years to earn that position, but he has yet to set Wimbledon alight in the same way as Tim Henman. At present he cannot rely on the Wimbledon support, and until he does, then winning this Tournament is going to be extremely difficult for him. Andy should work hard this year to win over the crowd, something he can only do by having a good run in the Tournament and by reaching the Centre Court at least once in the latter stages. He should also try very hard in the PR stakes to unequivocally confirm that he has no Anti-English agenda. The perception with many English is that he has, and while this perception may be the result of poor media reporting and establishment shenanigans, Andy will need to eradicate it conclusively if he wants cheers as opposed to jeers in the future.
The problem Andy might face is the problem presented by the predominantly English tennis establishment in this Country. They secretly wish that Andy was English or that someone English with his talent, male or female, would come along and replace him; until that happens, they are stuck with a Scotsman. An instance of this occurred recently when Andrew Castle, the former mediocre tennis player stated on the BBC that Henman Hill must remain Henman Hill and not become Murray Hill or Murray Field! This should be a warning for Murray about the thinking of some of the media and the establishment. He would do well to remember that at this time of year, there is nowhere more English in England than Wimbledon
If for any reason, spurious or otherwise, Andy failed to unite the Wimbledon crowd he could always resort to generating his own support. A good, professional PR campaign in Glasgow should do the trick. The Scots love to support themselves against the English and in Murray they have a Scottish World Class sportsman to get behind who is up against it in England. They would not need a second invitation!
It would be a truly wondrous sight to see them come to the Wimbledon Centre Court in their coach loads, dressed in their tartan and tam o shanters, with their ginger wigs, blowing their bagpipes and singing Flower of Scotland at the top of their voices each time Murray entered the arena. 3000 Scots folk inside the Centre Court would be more like a homecoming for Andy, surely with that level of support plus his own grass court ability, winning the tournament sometime soon would be inevitable.
If it did happen then undoubtedly Andy would be defending his title the following year from the renamed Andrew Murray Centre Court at the Wimbledon Championship. Andy Murray would also be a firm favourite in the US Open Tennis betting should he win at Wimbledon.
Rod Rowley is a tennis and golf journalist who has worked for many large UK media publications. Interests include almost every sport and in particular betting on them.
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For many, particularly the BBC, the biggest sporting highlight of the year begins next week on the grass courts of Wimbledon, the most famous tennis tournament in the world. As usual, we have just the one Briton who has any chance at all of winning and if Andy Murray can remain scratch free, then on ability alone, he has at least an outside chance of doing so at some point in the near future.
There is no doubt that Murray is one of the best players in the world, he has worked hard over the last few years to earn that position, but he has yet to set Wimbledon alight in the same way as Tim Henman. At present he cannot rely on the Wimbledon support, and until he does, then winning this Tournament is going to be extremely difficult for him. Andy should work hard this year to win over the crowd, something he can only do by having a good run in the Tournament and by reaching the Centre Court at least once in the latter stages. He should also try very hard in the PR stakes to unequivocally confirm that he has no Anti-English agenda. The perception with many English is that he has, and while this perception may be the result of poor media reporting and establishment shenanigans, Andy will need to eradicate it conclusively if he wants cheers as opposed to jeers in the future.
The problem Andy might face is the problem presented by the predominantly English tennis establishment in this Country. They secretly wish that Andy was English or that someone English with his talent, male or female, would come along and replace him; until that happens, they are stuck with a Scotsman. An instance of this occurred recently when Andrew Castle, the former mediocre tennis player stated on the BBC that Henman Hill must remain Henman Hill and not become Murray Hill or Murray Field! This should be a warning for Murray about the thinking of some of the media and the establishment. He would do well to remember that at this time of year, there is nowhere more English in England than Wimbledon
If for any reason, spurious or otherwise, Andy failed to unite the Wimbledon crowd he could always resort to generating his own support. A good, professional PR campaign in Glasgow should do the trick. The Scots love to support themselves against the English and in Murray they have a Scottish World Class sportsman to get behind who is up against it in England. They would not need a second invitation!
It would be a truly wondrous sight to see them come to the Wimbledon Centre Court in their coach loads, dressed in their tartan and tam o shanters, with their ginger wigs, blowing their bagpipes and singing Flower of Scotland at the top of their voices each time Murray entered the arena. 3000 Scots folk inside the Centre Court would be more like a homecoming for Andy, surely with that level of support plus his own grass court ability, winning the tournament sometime soon would be inevitable.
If it did happen then undoubtedly Andy would be defending his title the following year from the renamed Andrew Murray Centre Court at the Wimbledon Championship. Andy Murray would also be a firm favourite in the US Open Tennis betting should he win at Wimbledon.
Rod Rowley is a tennis and golf journalist who has worked for many large UK media publications. Interests include almost every sport and in particular betting on them.
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