Murray wins epic - Wimbledon Week 2.
Just when you thought this years Wimbledon could not get any better, along comes Andy Murray to produce what surely must be one the finest performances by any British singles player to beat number 8 seed Richard Gasquet of France in 5 pulsating sets last night.
Murray lost the first two sets to a player who was by far the toughest Murray has faced this tournment and at one stage Gasquet was serving for the match. This proved to be the turning point as the Frenchman noticeably felt the pressure and went 0-40 down before losing the game to a pumped up Murray.
After that the tide turned in the young Scots favour and the crowd urged him to victory in the gathering gloom of centre court.
Murrays reward for his epic win if it can be called that is a quater final encounter with Rafa Nadal on Wednesday, a match i for one will for once keep my money in my pocket and just sit back and enjoy a game between to pit bulls of players.
There are now only 4 seeds left in the mens draw with Verdasco 22, Warinkwa 13, Baghdatis 10, Hewit 20, and Youhzny 10 all exiting yesterday along with Gasquet, and the mens Quarter final line up is:
Murray v. Nadal Federer v. Ancic, Safin v. Lopez Schuettler v. Clement.
The carnage among the Ladies top seeds also continued yesterday with an injured Jelena Jankovic the number 2 seed going out tamely in 2 sets to Tanasugarn of Thailand and Kuznetsova the number 4 seed going out to Radwanska of Poland.
This leaves Elena Dementieva the number 5 seed as the highest ranked woman left in the tournament, but the possibility of the Williams sisters meeting in the final took a step closer as they both cruised past their opponents yesterday.
The Ladies Quarter Finals hat take place today will see Zheng v. Vaidosova, Venus Williams v. Radwanska, Tanasugarn v. Serena Williams and Dementieva v. Petrova.
