Published Jan 28 2012 by Didcot Herald


Murray ready to take next step

Andy Murray feels he is "ready mentally" to take his game to a new level despite his five-set loss to Novak Djokovic at the Australian Open.

Murray pushed the world number one all the way with a performance which displayed little of the flaws evident in his sobering defeat to the Serbian in last...

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...said Murray. "I had the chance at 5-5, on one of the points I missed a backhand in the net."
"My job over the next two or three months is to surpass him and the guys in front of me. It will take a lot of hard work but hopefully I can dodo it."
He added: "Tonight's match was important for many reasons. Obviously I wanted to win first and foremost. But I think there's now a very fine line between being number one in the world and being three or four. I think I closed that gap tonight."

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