Andy Murray is a good tennis player but is he ever going to be the great one that Britain craves ?
It's decades since any British man won a major international tournament though Murray has managed to get himself into 3 'Grand Slam' finals in the last few years, something even the sainted Tim Henman couldn't manage. Murray got to the final of the Australian Open in January of this year, and was thoroughly trounced by a genuinely top-notch player, Novak Djokovich. Ever since, he's barely been able to put racket to ball as he's been thumped by people who'd have trouble beating my old auntie Mabel, who's 88, by the way.
Yesterday, Murray showed signs that he was returning to some sort of form by not quite beating Djokovich in the semi-finals of the Italian Open. He is still, somehow, ranked as number 4 in the world and the French Open will be upon us momentarily, quickly followed by Wimbledon. With Roger Federer nowhere near the force he used to be, there are not too many serious contenders for major titles these days; Nadal, of course with injuries permitting, and Djokovich, perhaps Soderling, and Berdych, but who else ? IF Murray is able to show any sort of form, he may be have a genuine chance of creating his own iece of histry; IF.
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