Andy Murray Moves Closer to First Grand Slam

The world is still undecided on Andy Murray’s Australian Open fait but people being undecided shows just how far the 21 year old Scot has come.

It wasn’t so long ago that people said, the now world number four and British number one would never win a slam with Rodger Federer or Rafael Nadal on tour.

Now it is widely accepted that Andy Murray will win slams and maybe even this year.

Murray’s first round tie in the heat of the Melbourne sun was cut short when Romanian, Andrei Pavel retired hurt mid way through the second set with the Brit a set and break up but one doubts that he would have been too worried.

The young Scot may not have got the run out he was hoping for but he did avoid the sweltering sun and with tonight’s match played under lights, the question of fatigue brought up by many Murray doubters is at this moment, a non issue.

It has also been mentioned that Andy, “lacks some control over his mental game” by a fellow writer but do the facts agree? He is undefeated this season, has defended his Qatar Open crown and won four of his six tournaments since losing that US Open final to Roger Federer. Do they think he should win every tournament in order to show his mental control?

Funny how he was told he’d never regularly beat Nadal and Federer but now that he has proven he can, it apparently doesn’t prove anything.

Spaniard Marcel Granollers-Pujol was Murray’s second round opponent but they had to wait a long time to get on court after Venus Williams shock three sets defeat at the hands of Spain’s Carla Suarez-Navarro.

The match finally got under way at 10:30pm with Murray initially getting the hard match he was hoping for. Murray took the first set 6-4 after a good work out by the Spaniard. It was mainly Murray from then on in however and the Scot will surely be happy with his first full match of the Open.

6-4, 6-2, 6-2 saw the fourth seed turn the screw as the match went on and did so despite never playing anything like his best tennis, he didn’t need to.

Despite the lack of a proper first round match which saw Murray take a while to get into his flow today. It was only to be expected that his momentum coming into this event along with his high level of consistency was going to make Murray’s presence in the third round a mere formality.

Andy Murray is currently tennis’s Mr consistent and nothing I saw today changes my opinion.

Next up is Austria’s Jurgen Melzer, bring on Saturday.

Go champ.