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Anil

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To me, Murray is another Hewitt with, if possible, less personality
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dour personality aside...murray is a much, much greater player than hewitt ever was...also i think he has a very attractive game when he is firing on all cylinders and being aggressive (much more watchable at those times than djokovic) but most of the time you see him grinding it out in matches...and that's where the boredom aspect comes in...
 
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Furball said:
Murray's won 3 slams yet has never been number 1.

That's got to be close to a record surely? By the time most people hit 4 or 5 you would expect them to have spent some time as the number 1?
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Nadal has that record. Won 4 Slams between 2005-2008, and finally got over the line winning Wimbledon. I think he was number 2 for that entire duration.
 
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vcs said:
Nadal has that record. Won 4 Slams between 2005-2008, and finally got over the line winning Wimbledon. I think he was number 2 for that entire duration.
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Mats Wilander has this record, won 7 titles from 1982-88, only got to #1 after winning the last one.
 
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RossTaylorsBox said:
You watched cars driving around a track 50 times and golf.
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British GP was in the wet so people were running off everywhere and one of the leading contenders is an 18 yo who has only just been allowed to drive a road car

Golf in Scotland is different to virtually anywhere in the world and the courses are great

Let's face it, the only unpredictable thing that happened at Wimbledon was Djok losing
 
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Anil said:
dour personality aside...murray is a much, much greater player than hewitt ever was...also i think he has a very attractive game when he is firing on all cylinders and being aggressive (much more watchable at those times than djokovic) but most of the time you see him grinding it out in matches...and that's where the boredom aspect comes in...
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Hewitt is the youngest no. 1 in history and stayed there for 80 weeks

At his best, he was an incredible player but suffered from a chronic hip injury that curtailed his time at the top of the game

I personally think that the guy is a dick but to call Murray a far greater player is criminally underrating him
 
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Anil

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Hewitt is the youngest no. 1 in history and stayed there for 80 weeks

At his best, he was an incredible player but suffered from a chronic hip injury that curtailed his time at the top of the game

I personally think that the guy is a dick but to call Murray a far greater player is criminally underrating him
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he was very good at his peak but he basically stepped into the vacuum created by the decline of sampras, agassi was still going strong but ageing and in any case, he was never as dominant as sampras was...federer had not taken over then, there was that gap in which a lot of good to very good players like hewitt, roddick, ferrero, kuerten et al won slams..once federer started dominating, none of them could sustain their success, hewitt and roddick became federer's bunnies and the others more or less faded away...

none of them can really compare to fantastic all-court players like federer, nadal, djokovic and murray...murray is the least accomplished of that foursome but he has still achieved way more than hewitt even at this stage and he is obviously not close to being done...hell you can make a case that stan wawrinka is better than hewitt at their respective bests...and that is a much more realistic comparison than hewitt vs murray...
 
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Lillian Thomson

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Murray not playing in the Davis Cup - goodbye trophy. You have to wonder whether the organisers are trying to kill it off by playing it so close to Wimbledon. It's no wonder the top players can't be arsed.
 
Jono

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Yeah bad scheduling. But some interesting results. Sock came back from 2 sets down to best Cilic and Rosol beat Tsonga saving match points. Great stuff.

I expected tipsarevic to beat Edmund actually, so was proven wrong there. Looks like Edmund wiped the floor with him.
 
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