Andy Murray signed-off in style ahead of Wimbledon by lifting the Aegon Championships title at Queen's with a three-set victory over Jo-Wilfried Tsonga. Murray won the competition in 2009 and repeated the feat by turning around a one-set deficit to win 3-6 7-6 (7-2) 6-4 in front of a capacity crowd at the Queen's Club. All 6,858 Centre Court tickets were sold after rain prevented on play on Sunday. Some 4,000 tickets were sold overnight, while a further 2,000 fans took advantage of £10 tickets on Monday morning. The BBC reports some fans arrived as early as 2am to make sure they got tickets. Tsonga started well, showing the huge serves and powerful forehand that had helped him to beat Rafael Nadal on Saturday. The 26-year-old Frenchman broke Murray for 4-2 lead. Despite Murrary creating two break points of his own in game 10, Tsonga was strong enough to secure the set. It was a similar story in the second set, when two fantastic second serves again kept Murray at bay. The Scot had by this stage mustered seven break points and failed to convert a single one. Despite being tantalisingly close to victory, Tsonga never made his presence felt in a second-set tie-break dominated by Murray. Two successive points on Tsonga's serve put Murray in the driving seat and he served out for the set. Murray began to make more in-roads in the third-set, but Tsonga's outstanding serve - particularly under pressure - meant the pair stayed neck-and-neck despite more break points for Murray. The number two seed eventually got his first break of the match in the fifth game of the decider. Well on his way to victory, he played an outrageous between-the-legs winner to wrap-up the following service game. The match and the championship soon followed. Murray will now head for SW19 having provided British tennis fans with some renewed optimism.
Well done Andy, a great win today but Winbledon is a different animal. We live in hope though. Frustrating day at work unable to listen to the match on my radio
Here we go again - and I know that this is the kiss of death - but I think Andy Murray might just win the mens singles at Wimbledon this year. After he got to the Australian Open final he went through a really bad patch. He could hardly win a match. However after a good run at the French Open and winning the AEGON at Queens, it looks like he might be finding his best form again at just the right time. Could this be the year? Yes, I know we have heard it all before. But I think it just might be......!
The problem with Andy Murray is he often seems to have to go a set or two down before he gets himself really fired up and playing his best tennis. He can't afford to do that against the best. Would love to see him win it and the show boating last week was brilliant! good to see his personality coming out on court finally.
this is the limit of murray's ability - being able to win minor events without having to play the big guys. problem is when it comes to slams and he faces the likes of nadal/federer and djokovich. they are all far superior players and with them playing the game murray will never be good enough to win a slam. i guess he can hope they all get injured but even then del potro and soderling are better players than murray
Agree with this, he can win minor events but never a Slam, and his only chance is if 5 or 6 players are injured at once
I know that a lot of people hate Murray, but some of the above posts are deluded! Murray has winning head to head records against both R Sod and Del Potro! Queens is a worthless tournament? Then why has it been won by the likes of Sampras, Agassi, Becker and McEnroe? Let's face it, Murray is miles ahead of any player ranked below 4 in the world. He is slightly behind the top 3, but has beaten them on multiple occasions in Masters events. He has the game to win a slam, it's only the mental side that keeps him behind the top 3. Let's wait and see how he does in this years Wimbledon. Personally, I think he'll make the final.
Why? He's not British, he's Scottish, as the Jocks are always keen to point out, in the mythical world of cliches they live in. For the record I've lived in Scotland for 43 years and there's never been commentators who start calling the Scots Scots as soon as they lose. Nobody I've watched sports with has ever been able to actually point out an example. In the same fantasy world the Jocks bang on about one Archie Gemmill goal in 1978 far more than Motty ever mentions 1966. That goal they drool over every 10 minutes was in a game the Dutch had to lose by a goal to avoid Brazil. They lost by a goal. No defender was going to risk a card just to tackle Gemmill. As soon as the Dutch were two goals behind they strolled up the pitch, Johnny Rep hit a 30-yard screamer to stay a goal behind, Holland returned to 2nd gear and Jock heads went down as they realised they were being toyed with like a cat with a sick and disabled mouse. Ahh, memories. That was the World Cup the famous Tartan Army spat on their own players in disgust and shame. That's Scottish supporters, not British supporters.
