Summary
ANDY Murray has long accepted that he is being required to do his growing up as a tennis player in public. He has realised perhaps for the first time this week that he will also have to do the same as a human being.
Accustomed to receiving deferential and at times indulgent treatment as one of the rising stars of the men's tour, the 18-year- old Scot was stunned when he was booed by a large section of the crowd at the Heineken Open in Auckland after making what he claimed was a joke. Murray's offence was to say, in an on-court interview after losing to Mario Ancic, that in the first set the two had "played like women".See the full content of this document
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Murray Learns Hard Way to Hone Skills in Diplomacy
He reacted quickly to the hostility, qualifying his remarks by claiming he was referring to a women's match in which there had been nine breaks of serve in the opening set. But the damage was already done, the story was given worldwide publicity, and for the first time he received a tas...
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