Andy Murray to face Gilles Muller at Aegon Championships
19th June 2015
Andy Murray would be the first to say that a tougher test to win ugly, rather than a straightforward cruise, is the best way to measure the state of your game.
Especially as a tournament begins to reach its latter stages. And so a hard-fought 7-5, 6-4 win over Fernando Verdasco to reach the quarter-finals of this year’s Aegon Championships was not at all unwelcome, Murray admitting that the Spaniard forced him to move better than he has done so far this week.
That progress will be fundamental against his next opponent, Gilles Muller, who bombed down 19 aces to remove defending champion Grigor Dimitrov from the draw, bringing his total for the week to 56. The 32-year-old, twice a third-rounder at Wimbledon, once a US Open quarter-finalist, is coached by Murray’s good friend Jamie Delgado. But that won’t bother the three-time champion.
Cat and mouse
Gilles Simon can frustrate the very best of servers, his counter-punching game tying many of them up in knots. But Milos Raonic has a serve that could prove too much even for the Frenchman.