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[img width=118,height=118]http://www.authenticphillieshop.com/images//mlb_jerseys_new/philadelphia_phillies/phillies_320.jpg[/img] occasionally downbeat world view of Andy Murray.It is a working athlete’s natural inclination to seek comfort in hardship. If it was easy, goes the thinking, everyone would be doing it; because it is not, the best survive and prosper. A word that recurs more often than most in a Murray interview is “tough”.Certainly, with three slams to his name and the prospect of fighting for another one this weekend – after indifferent clay form, shingles, flu, injury and some struggles in his first five matches at this French Open – Murray has cause to wonder if he is in the best
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[img width=180,height=180]http://www.jaguarsofficialshop.com/images//nike_nfl_jerseys/nike_jacksonville_jaguars/nike_jaguars_233.jpg[/img] court – or not necessarily players, but the patterns you can do and can’t do. [On Wednesday] it was extremely difficult with the wind [at the start of the match]. Ball-striking was hard and Kei hit the ball incredibly well the first set. But then it left him. He was pushing Andy around because of the conditions and Andy couldn’t get the timing [right]. Then Kei couldn’t keep the timing because of the conditions.”
