Like most of the country I spend two weeks a year as a big fan of Tennis, there is always a chance in a World Cup or European Championship year that football will over power the annual tennis fest that is Wimbledon, however due to England's poor performance I was able to pick up a bit of tennis yesterday.
Andy Murray came through two opening tie break sets on his way to a four set victory over Frenchman Jo-Wilfried Tsonga, it ended up as a relatively easy victory for Murray but looked to be quite different during the second tie-break when he could have slipped to a 2 set deficit.
This was a good result for Murray, but his reward is to get a Semi-Final against Nadal on Friday which will be a mountain to over come if he is to become the first British Wimbledon finalist since 1938.
Personally I want Murray to make it to the final as it will be good for British Tennis to have a winner, for a change. Personally as a player I prefer Nadal as he is without doubt the best player in the world today, I would have quite liked a Federrer - Nadal final again, but that is not possible now, after Federrer went out.
There are many English people who do not want Murray to win due to his perceived anti-englishness. This all seems to stem from a comment he made in 2006 when he said that he hoped anyone won the world cup except England. However this didn't bother me as Murray is Scottish so I do not expect him to support England.
Well hopefully he can do it, if for no other reason than if we have a champion we will not have to endure all the comments about how long it has been since there has been a British Champion.
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