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Thank you to @The Federest for letting me start one. I'm out for most of tomorrow so thought I'd put it on as early as possible.
It was an interesting time in Andy Murray's career. He'd announced his arrival in Tennis with his run to the third round against Nalbandian (lost from 2 sets up) at Wimbledon 2005. He then backed that up by reaching 4th round the following year.
However he annoyed plenty of people by jokingly saying he wanted anyone but England to win 2006 world cup so there was an air of negativity hanging over given he missed Wimbledon 2007 from injury. Listen in when Gasquet serves for the match in the third set. You can hear a fan saying along the lines of "do it for England Richard".
Press weren't convinced by him either at this point, he got plenty of criticism for losing to Tsonga in first round of AO 2008 so a good run was needed. Win got him his maiden QF slam appearance although Nadal comfortably took him out in the next round. Two months later however he reached the US open final.
Richard Gasquet. He'd memorably defeated Roddick from two sets down in the quarters of Wimbledon 2007 and of course had his own teen wonder years in 2005 reaching master finals as 18 year old. However he came into 2008 Wimbledon in uncertain form and first doubts in his career. Was still in the top 10 and above Murray in the rankings.
In the first two sets it was all clicking for Richard. Solid serving, backhand was doing its stuff and his FH was very strong aswell. Murray played awful service game at start of second (replicated by Gasquet at start of fourth where backhand went awol) and for last set Gasquet went awol due to the fading light, spraying errors and no answe to Murray's athleticism and lobs.
A very interesting mental match which sums up their careers. Also memorable for the Murray shot in the third set TB when he hit a pass from nearly the front row. Enjoy.
It was an interesting time in Andy Murray's career. He'd announced his arrival in Tennis with his run to the third round against Nalbandian (lost from 2 sets up) at Wimbledon 2005. He then backed that up by reaching 4th round the following year.
However he annoyed plenty of people by jokingly saying he wanted anyone but England to win 2006 world cup so there was an air of negativity hanging over given he missed Wimbledon 2007 from injury. Listen in when Gasquet serves for the match in the third set. You can hear a fan saying along the lines of "do it for England Richard".
Press weren't convinced by him either at this point, he got plenty of criticism for losing to Tsonga in first round of AO 2008 so a good run was needed. Win got him his maiden QF slam appearance although Nadal comfortably took him out in the next round. Two months later however he reached the US open final.
Richard Gasquet. He'd memorably defeated Roddick from two sets down in the quarters of Wimbledon 2007 and of course had his own teen wonder years in 2005 reaching master finals as 18 year old. However he came into 2008 Wimbledon in uncertain form and first doubts in his career. Was still in the top 10 and above Murray in the rankings.
In the first two sets it was all clicking for Richard. Solid serving, backhand was doing its stuff and his FH was very strong aswell. Murray played awful service game at start of second (replicated by Gasquet at start of fourth where backhand went awol) and for last set Gasquet went awol due to the fading light, spraying errors and no answe to Murray's athleticism and lobs.
A very interesting mental match which sums up their careers. Also memorable for the Murray shot in the third set TB when he hit a pass from nearly the front row. Enjoy.
