Murray Watch Monday

I'm back! I'm very sorry that I haven't been updating recently but I have been swamped with exams and have been unable to give this my full attention, however I have now finished exams and I don't have any more till January so I expect this blog will be running as normal from now on. At least I'm back for the second week of Roland Garros, If I had missed a slam I would have felt terrible!

So since I've been away what has Mr Murray been up to? Well he's rejoined twitter! I wont bore you with everything he's said but here's a few of the comments he's made since he's been at the French Open, just so you can get a sense of whats going through his mind at this time.

 So as you can see he has been joking around most of the time and seems relaxed, however after his second round match, when he had to fight back from one set down with a back injury, he was keen to other his thanks for the support he received. The next day he seemed agitated at the speed it takes for the schedules to be released but it seems he's gone back to relaxing by playing scrabble with the 'missus' winning with 'hernias'!

We hope to see Andy Murray in action today and fingers crossed he is feeling in better shape and will not pull out of the Aegon Championships as the more time we get to watch grass-court tennis the better! 

If your a fan of the whole Murray family then this series of interviews with the brothers gives a snap-shot into their lives on tour, and off!

Andy Interviews Jamie

Jamie Interviews Andy

Best and Worst things about having each other as brothers

Murray Watch Monday

On the 6th of April the GB Davis cup team will take on Belgium in Glasgow for the chance to go through to the September play-offs for the World Group. As you may remember Andy Murray did not play in the last Davis Cup tie and it seems he has still not decided if he will play this time.

He said - “It depends on how Miami goes. It’s a bit like Indian Wells – I wasn’t planning on having that sort of week. You always plan for the best-case scenario and that’s finishing on Sunday evening with a win and then you go from there. I’ll have a chat with Leon next week – he’s coming over to Miami – about [the] Davis Cup and I’ll speak to the guys next week about it because obviously the Indian Wells week changes things a little bit because I didn’t play as many matches as I would have hoped. So, I’ll see how Miami goes.”

GB captain, Leon Smith has to name his team a week tomorrow and if Murray was to play there would be another issue - who would be GB's doubles team? It would be a lovely predicament to have for once, to many players! As if Andy wants to play with brother Jamie the were would that leave Colin Fleming and Ross Hutchins, Britains latest go-to team?

 

Fleming and Hutchins are ranked 8th in the race to London but it was the Murray brothers who recently beat them at Indian Wells and Jamie has been successful as a doubles player for a long time now, Hutchins explained how he felt about the issue; “We’ve been quite successful since we’ve started together,” Hutchins said, “but Andy can light up a court like probably only three other players in the world and Jamie’s been top 50 for the last I-don’t-know-how-many years. If Andy plays Davis Cup and wants to play with Jamie, I think it would be wrong to be, like, ‘no; these guys are our team’. It’s a discussion that should happen amongst the captain and the coaches and Andy and do what is best for the team.” 

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Andy Murray will also be supporting Malaria No More in their latest campaign, he will be giving away a signed tennis racket, t-shirt and tickets to watch him play this summer to whoever brings in the most sponsorship money taking part in the charity's Live Below the Line! campaign where you get by on £1 a day for food and drink between 7-11 May.

 He said "It asks people across the UK, US, New Zealand and Australia to live on £1 a day for all food and drink for five days in May. Why? You might well ask. "Well, it's to raise awareness about 1.4 billion people who live on this budget everyday, for everything, so food, drink, education, transport, healthcare, the lot. Surviving on that budget is pretty incomprehensible for most of us which is why this is such a powerful campaign". 

If you want to get involved sign up here:  www.livebelowtheline.com/uk-mnmuk

And to read all of Andy's blog on the subject check here: http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/andy-murray/could-you-live-on-5-for-five-days

David Beckham has teamed up with Murray to support the use of Malaria nets.

Murray Watch Monday

Andy Murray has confirmed he will be taking part in the Aegon Championship this year and so will be trying to make it a hat trick of wins there on the grass courts of Queens Club (I am hoping to buy my tickets soon!).

You may already know but Andy Murray has set up a twitter page for his dog, yes for his dog! As Andy doesn't tweet anymore it is useful to catch up on the daily life at the Murray household. Of course it isn't really dogs tweeting but Andy's girlfriend Kim (a reason to vote her queen TWAG?) and sometimes we get a glimpse of Murray:

The Murray's have been busy promoting Set4Sport and Judy, Jamie and Andy all got together to chat to 5live, if you missed it you can download the podcast here. Judy Murray has also made various appearances on T.V talking about her Fed Cup victory among other subjects.

If you want to find out more about Set4Sport and see how you can get involved check out the website at www.set4sport.com

Murray Watch Monday

Here in Britain our hopes of a singles Grand Slam winner are all about Murray!

Here is a interesting video, involving Jamie Murray interviewing Andy, a good watch for all tennis fans...

Find it here