Murray faces omnipotent Nadal

Twelfth seed, Andrew Murray, arguably came of age on Monday when he pulled off a remarkable five-set victory over France’s Richard Gasquet, seeded 8th for the tournament. The controversial Scotsman looked dead and buried in the third set, but instead of rolling over, as has been his propensity in recent times, he fought back with some blistering tennis to power into the quarterfinals of the All England Championships - his best results to date.

A Wounded Nadal
Crowd favourite, Murray, now faces one of the biggest challenges of his professional career on centre court - a heads-up against the second seed and current French Open champion, Rafael Nadal.

Although Murray will have to play the best tennis of his life if he is to challenge the natural ability, fitness and pure strength of the man tipped to be the number one player in the world in the very near future, he has one added advantage - Nadal pulled up injured in his fourth round clash against Mikhail Youzhny and just may be a little easier to dominate.

Murray’s sheer will and tenacity in the Gasquet match-up speaks volumes of his growing maturity and with the raucous centre court Wimbledon crowd behind him, Murray must be in with a chance to move through to the semi finals for the first time in his professional career.

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Bookmakers, bet365, are clearly cautious of a Murray triumph and have him 4/1 to win whereas Raffa, the clear favourite, is 1/6 to go through to the semi finals.

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