{"id":17058,"date":"2021-07-01T11:44:18","date_gmt":"2021-07-01T06:14:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/?p=118665"},"modified":"2021-07-01T11:44:18","modified_gmt":"2021-07-01T06:14:18","slug":"wimbledon-2021-andy-murray-booked-his-spot-in-the-third-round-of-the-tournament","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/tennis\/wimbledon-2021-andy-murray-booked-his-spot-in-the-third-round-of-the-tournament\/","title":{"rendered":"Wimbledon 2021: Andy Murray booked his spot in the third round of the tournament"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Andy Murray booked his spot in the third round of the Wimbledon championship to meet 10th seed Danis Shapovalov of Canada, as he wins a thriller 6-3, 4-6, 4-6, 6-4, 6-2 in second round against German qualifier Oscar Otte.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">It just had to be\u2026<\/p>\n<p>A trademark <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/andy_murray?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@andy_murray<\/a> lob seals his passage into the third round at <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Wimbledon?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#Wimbledon<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/CKwUaS5nMi\">pic.twitter.com\/CKwUaS5nMi<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Wimbledon (@Wimbledon) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Wimbledon\/status\/1410350305187975171?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 30, 2021<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>British professional, Murray had never got defeated in a Grand Slam match to a player ranked as low as number 151 Otte before Wednesday, and he had never been dominated before the third round at the All England Club.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI enjoyed in the end but not much the middle part. It was an amazing atmosphere to play in. I needed everyone\u2019s help tonight and they did a great job.<\/p>\n<p>I had to do something unusually. I did started going for my shots more. I dictated more points. I was being negative a little bit. Because of the lack of matches I didn\u2019t make the right decisions.<\/p>\n<p>I played the game properly in the last couple of sets,\u201d said Murray to the 7,500 fans those were shouting and allowed in the stands.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Unreal atmosphere out there tonight\u2026 thanks so much to everyone that was in there watching and supporting.. you carried me over the line \ud83d\udc4f life in the old dog yet eh!\ud83d\udc15<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Andy Murray (@andy_murray) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/andy_murray\/status\/1410372685188763652?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 30, 2021<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Murray has not been so lucky with his health. He is working on his way to get his fitness back to 100% following hip-resurfacing surgery in 2019 which doesn\u2019t allow him to hold up on his body for long, comfortably. The lack of mobility was the reason why British struggled in the second and third sets.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">\"It was the surgeon who told me in 2017 that I didn\u2019t have long left and you could have surgery but you won\u2019t play professional sport again.<\/p>\n<p>\"There were times when I couldn\u2019t tie my shoes, when I thought I would never play again\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Andy Murray never gives up.<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Wimbledon?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#Wimbledon<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/UPNYVDw0q0\">pic.twitter.com\/UPNYVDw0q0<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 bet365 (@bet365) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/bet365\/status\/1410350375199256589?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 30, 2021<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Murray is playing for the first time in singles at Wimbledon since 2017. \u201cOne of the reasons why I am still playing is because of the moments like that. Why would you want to give that up,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"qme\" dir=\"ltr\">\ud83d\udd25\u2764\ufe0f <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/Aj8cp6EKzY\">pic.twitter.com\/Aj8cp6EKzY<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Andy Murray (@andy_murray) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/andy_murray\/status\/1410353946175094789?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 30, 2021<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Andy Murray booked his spot in the third round of the Wimbledon championship to meet 10th seed Danis Shapovalov of\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":169,"featured_media":37805,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[1988,326,2034,1421,1969,389,202,250],"class_list":["post-17058","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-tennis","tag-all-england-club","tag-andy-murray","tag-denis-shapovalov","tag-grand-slam","tag-oscar-otte","tag-sports","tag-tennis","tag-wimbledon"],"reading_time":"2 min read","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17058","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/169"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17058"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17058\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/37805"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17058"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17058"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17058"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}