Bleacher Report: Novak Djokovic-Andy Murray QF Will Give 2014 US Open Its 1st Great Men's Match

By Art Spander
Featured Columnist

NEW YORK — Now it gets serious. Now the men’s game, existing almost in a vacuum while the ladies battered each other and the seedings — joyful confusion, you could call it — grabs its rightful place at the U.S. Open.

Now the big names display what they hope are their big games.

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Newsday (N.Y.): Andy Murray knocked out in Wimbledon quarters

By Art Spander
Special to Newsday

WIMBLEDON, England — He was nicknamed "Baby Fed," when his coach at the time said Gregor Dimitrov was more advanced at his age than Roger Federer. It was difficult label with which to live, but suddenly at age 23 Dimitrov has become the tennis player that he was predicted to be.

He put an exclamation point on his potential Wednesday when he stunned defending champion Andy Murray in their Wimbledon quarterfinal, 6-1, 7-6 (4), 6-2.

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Bleacher Report: Andy Murray Gets a Reality Check in Wimbledon 2014 Upset vs. Grigor Dimitrov

By Art Spander
Featured Columnist

LONDON — What did they expect from Andy Murray? That he was another Roger Federer or Pete Sampras?

That he was going to repeat as Wimbledon winner?

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Bleacher Report: Andy Murray Fighting Back against British Media's Pressure at Wimbledon 2014

By Art Spander
Featured Columnist

WIMBLEDON, England — Britain is a country great with words — hey, Shakespeare, Milton and Churchill were Englishmen — but not so great at games.

It’s a faded empire where once the sun never set, but now on fields and courts, it symbolically rarely rises.

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Bleacher Report: Rafael Nadal and Andy Murray's Mental Toughness Sets Up Epic French Open Clash

By Art Spander
Featured Columnist

Vince Lombardi used to say hurt is in the mind. So, too, is success. Also failure, not that we should call anyone who makes it as far as the quarter-finals of a Grand Slam tennis tournament a failure.

There are so many pieces of advice on how one becomes a champion. Maybe the most accurate it this: You’ve got to believe.

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