Dan Evans reaches 3rd round at Wimbledon
“But we start off at 0-all and I’m going to give it everything I’ve got”.
A seven-player squad will represent Great Britain in the Olympic tennis event in Rio in August, it has been confirmed by the International Tennis Federation..
“On my dad’s side of the family, they’re all United supporters, and the team they hate the most is Liverpool”, he said. “To be the first player to win five times, it’s not an easy tournament to win”. “From yesterday I felt a little bit exhausted”.
“I have never been one to necessarily go out with an intimidated mindset before I play”.
“I think he played very well in the second and third sets”, said the Scot.
Nishikori later said, to paraphrase, ‘Don’t put your money on me’.
Millman, 27, is ranked 67th in the world and is through to the last 32 at the All England Club for the first time. When he returned nearly a year later, his ranking dropped outside 1,000 and he found himself back on the Futures Tour, the lowest level of professional tennis.
“I used quite a lot of variety, used the slice a lot, change of pace. I was happy with how I played”.
“I was creating chances obviously a lot in the second set and in the third set”, Murray acknowledged. “I don’t know – it is hard, I don’t really know – but any time any of the big names come along to watch it is nice and I have got to meet a few of them over the years”.
The 29-year-old takes on Taiwan’s Yen-Hsun Lu, who he has beaten in the last three meetings, but a player who also knocked him out in the first round of the Beijing Olympics in 2008. I managed to hang on at the end of the first set, settled down towards the end of the second, and was hitting the ball much better in third and feeling more comfortable.
The order of play and live ESPN 3 streaming at Wimbledon 2016 on Thursday’s Day Four.
‘I don’t read notifications any time I am around major tournaments.
“I came off the court and I said to Dani Vallverdu, who I was working with, “He’s top 50 for sure if he keeps going”. “I started playing more aggressive and more solid, especially on the forehand”.
“He moves well. He has a great attitude”.
“The player then can’t earn a living for the next few months, depending on what the injury is”. But obviously it’s a different surface, different place.
” I don’t know what he thought of the match, if there were things he could have done differently”.
Australian John Millman faces one of the toughest tests of his career tonight when he takes on world No. 2 Andy Murray in the third round at Wimbledon.
“I don’t think anyone was going for him back in Brizzie”. “It’s a bit of the reversal of roles [from Brisbane]”.
“I love playing in Brisbane”. I have never been inside Centre Court or Court One.
“I didn’t know him before we played in Brisbane (but) I knew it was his hometown”, he said.
Andy Murray may not be a superstitious man but his win over Yen-Hsun Lu could prove to be a good omen.
He warmed up for the match by hitting with British juniors Alastair Gray and Finn Bass before the weather intervened.