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To really dislike Andy Murray?

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MyGastIsFlabbered · 07/07/2017 20:26

I just can't warm to him, I've really tried but I just can't. I don't want him to win Wimbledon. AIBU and unpatriotic?

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Maryz · 08/07/2017 20:05

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LouiseBrooks · 08/07/2017 20:14

Originally I loathed Murray, but for the last few years (since before he reached the first final) I've loved him. I don't like Federer at all although I love his style of play.

I started watching in about 1970 and it was a different world then. Even the women's game was great, Evert, King, Navratilova and my personal favourite, Goolagong.

I too am sick of the Williams sisters and in case anyone gets the wrong idea I'm also fed up with most of the women full stop. I was a big fan of Bartoli and Kvitova and Mugaruza are the two others I really enjoy.

buggerthebotox · 08/07/2017 20:23

agreed, last.

I think part of Federer's appeal is down to his being "old school" in his playing. So lovely to watch, even if you're not particularly a fan.

buggerthebotox · 08/07/2017 20:26

Maybe our very own Johanna Konta stands a chance?

cushioncovers · 08/07/2017 20:31

He's a good player but he really doesn't come across very well - arrogant, stroppy and like a bored teenager a lot of the time!

Agree

BertrandRussell · 08/07/2017 20:43

"He's a good player but he really doesn't come across very well - arrogant, stroppy and like a bored teenager a lot of the time!"

I suspect many people have not paid attention to any of his interviews over the last few years- he was once an arrogant and stroppy teenager, but hasn't behaved like one for some time!

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mydogisthebest · 08/07/2017 20:58

I hate all the grunting and shrieking too Maryz although some of the men do it too.

I occasionally watch a womens match with the sound turned off

hackmum · 08/07/2017 21:09

Sports people generally are very boring, especially in the modern era where all they do is play sport and there's no longer a role for the gifted amateur.

Kr1stina · 08/07/2017 21:32

Andy Murray and his brother and mother are very well respected in sport in Scotland , they have given a lot back, not just to their own sport.

JohnnyUtahsWetsuit · 08/07/2017 21:45

Loads of the men grunt even louder than the women, Nadal being a case in point, but everyone seems to complain more about the women doing it. Perhaps the women are supposed to be all dainty and feminine, or something.

I will admit that the noise Sharapova makes it particularly irritating though, especially when it is just a drop shot or something.

TheOnlyLivingBoyInNewCross · 08/07/2017 22:05

I think it's more to do with the pitch the grunting happens at that makes the women so annoying. Sharapova's shriek exceeds 100 decibels, Azarenka's is 95.

CharlieB161 · 08/07/2017 22:07

YABVVVU!!!! Wink he's a nice bloke, works hard, is very very talented, and is our only hope! Cheer him on!

nina2b · 08/07/2017 22:09

MyGastIsFlabbered

I just can't warm to him, I've really tried but I just can't. I don't want him to win Wimbledon. AIBU and unpatriotic?*

I'm sure he can live without your support.Hmm

nina2b · 08/07/2017 22:13

buggerthebotox

Maybe our very own Johanna Konta stands a chance?

Oh yes, the one who was born in Australia whose father this Hungarian...
Laughable.

nina2b · 08/07/2017 22:13

Oh yes, the one who was born in Australia whose father is Hungarian...

Laughable.

BertrandRussell · 08/07/2017 22:18

She's been a British Citizen for 10 years! (I think)

BoysofMelody · 08/07/2017 23:00

there's no longer a role for the gifted amateur.

Good.

Because it was class bound hypocritical nonsense, restricting participation to those who had private means and those whose employers would grant them generous leave to compete.

Rugby Union (the last sport to be nominally amateur) was a case in point, a lot of the players had soft jobs with club sponsors or directors or were in the forces as 'tracksuit soldiers' who would be given carte blanche to play sport pretty much, full time or the Oxbridge rowers who are pretty much full time athletes. The are professional in all but name.

Until the 60s amatuer 'gentlemen' cricketers, would address professional 'players' by their surname, whereas they would be expected to address the 'gentlemen' as Mr X. The biggest laugh being that a prominent 'gentleman' cricketer could rake in more than many 'players' who were payed in kind and backhanders.

YeahILoveSummer · 08/07/2017 23:55

"I don't get the reasoning that him being in Dunblane means every single person has to like him as a sporting personality, sorry

Lots of famous people have had traumatic things happen. Kim Kardashian was held at gunpoint tied up and robbed. Doesn't stop most ppl slagging her off."
How on earth can you compare what happened to Kim Kardasian to Andy Murray? Shock

sofato5miles · 09/07/2017 00:35

I am involved in tennis in a half cocked way. Played with Tsonga and went to the players drinks, where Rafa checked me out to my friend's disgust but he is too like a capybara for me and I don't give no rodent love. I've met most players mentioned on here a few times at charity or smaller events, though somehow I have never spoken to Andy. I like him though. He's funny.

Gran22 · 09/07/2017 09:51

Mygast, he doesn't 'crack jokes' as such. As has already been said, his wit is dry, self deprecating and fairly subtle. That's why, IMO, lots of people don't get him. And that's fine, because lots of us do.

dementedma · 09/07/2017 11:41

Anyone remember Yannick Noah? drool

buggerthebotox · 09/07/2017 12:56

Oooh.......hasn't he matured Well?

To really dislike Andy Murray?
bridgetreilly · 12/07/2017 20:27

This is why I love Andy Murray:

He's just lost a match he could have won.
He's in a lot of pain.
He's exhausted.

And he still calls out the casual sexism in a question from an idiot journalist.

AmIthatbloodycold · 12/07/2017 20:31

Yes. One of the many reasons why I love him.