Andy Murray: Made In Scotland, Entertaining The World

One tennis persona who finds his name doing the rounds these days, often eclipsing Federer and Nadal in his wake is Andy Murray; the boy responsible for enlarging the elite top three of tennis into a Priory of Sion-ish Senechaux foursome.

Currently poised to take over as the world's third best tennis player, he has almost everything in his professional duffel bag: controlled aggression; determination to succeed; not to forget the spirit , the guts and the game to stun his top brass counterparts.

Extending his maiden US Open final success last year, Andy was the first to notch up a victory in 2009. Not Federer: The man who dominated the sport for four and a half years; Not Nadal: The Matador who toppled the Swiss and definitely not Nole: the Serb on the brink of his highest career ranking.

His victory in Doha set tongues wagging about the newly charged genius, not to mention speculation that Murray was on the route to claim his first slam Down Under.

And adding fuel to the fire, he was indeed favoured by the punters to win the Asia/Pacific slam. Federer, who was using that as a springboard to equal a legendary record wasn't exactly pleased and made his displeasure very obvious with his comments.

However he was in for a surprise when Murray, the same Murray who he had advised to be more aggressive with his game plan, counter pointed him by saying, "Being touted as the favourite, doesn't make any difference to me or my game" or words to that effect.

And though he failed to make his mark there [ I wasn't really feeling upset about his loss, frankly admitting] he still proves to be a tough challenger to the Federers and the Rafas and the Noles.

Almost midway in the 2009 season, Andy has already three titles to his credit, including one 1000 Masters at Miami and is still going strong with each passing day and in the midst of the dirt months, his growth and improvement on the clay and overall is visible even more clearly.

Post clay, the battle of the surfaces shifts to grass and common knowledge says, Andy will be doubly comfortable there than anyone else [except perhaps Federer] and if by any chance, he overtakes Nole in the rankings, the competition will hotten up and extremely so.

Thus the hunt is very much on for the fiery Scot and every new event he enters, he looks all the more hungry and greedy for further achievements. His fans and countrymen on their part, goaded by his every tournament "honed" playing skills love and revel in each nanosecond of Murray mania.

For, in their eyes Andy Murray represents their deeply wished slam glory and accolades in the days to come. Nothing will please and satisfy them than his maiden slam, heralding the ones to follow!