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  • Muscles Murray still no Popeye

    7/1/08 1:04 PM | Johan Lindahl
    - Slender Scot Andy Murray flexed his recently developed muscles Popeye style after a five-set victory put him into his first-ever Wimbledon quarter-final.

    But the newest British tennis hero's celebratory moves on court against France's Richard Gasquet are unlikely to have impressed upcoming opponent Rafael Nadal, a near-superhuman tennis specimen with four French Open titles and a pair of Wimbledon finals to prove it.

    “I was doing it to my fitness trainers”, said Murray after his effort concluded in nearly four hours and in near darkness on Centre court. “I've been putting in so much work off the court and it was the first time this year I've really had the chance to show it”.

    Murray, who ditched high-priced American coach Brad Gilbert in 2007, is now trained, managed and massaged by a rotating consortium of friends and acquaintances - tennis by committee.

    The 12th seed admitted that his muscle gesture may have been a bit lame - but he carried on anyway. “I decided that that's what I wanted to do at the end of the match”.

    Murray knows he will be in another weight class when he tangles with Nadal on Wednesday, with the super-fit Spaniard a huge favourite.

    “It was not a warning to Rafa, nothing like that. I just wanted to show that, you know, there is some muscles there, and I had worked hard off the court”.

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put it back on!

Samx1 , 7/1/08 11:12 PM



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