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Andy Murray stunned by Sam Querrey Wimbledon loss

Tennis champion Andy Murray's 2017 Wimbledon loss was quite the drawn out painful affair on Centre Court Wednesday. Limping between points and fading down the stretch, defending champion Andy Murray was stunned by 24th-seeded Sam Querrey of the U.S. 3-6, 6-4, 6-7 (4), 6-1, 6-1 in the Wimbledon quarterfinals. The No. 1-seeded Murray came into the tournament dealing with a sore left hip, and it clearly impeded him at Centre Court. He grimaced as he stumbled or landed awkwardly while attempting shots. Querrey took full advantage to reach the first Grand Slam semifinal of his career - and the first for any American man anywhere since Andy Roddick was the runner-up at Wimbledon in 2009. [pdf-embedder url="https://movietvtechgeeks.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/2017-wimbledon-mens-singles-quarters.pdf" title="2017 wimbledon mens singles quarters"] "I am still in a little bit of shock myself," Querrey said. There was another quarterfinal surprise later Wednesday when three-time Wimbledon champion Novak Djokovic stopped playing because of a right arm injury while trailing 2010 runner-up Tomas Berdych of the Czech Republic 7-6 (2), 2-0. After dropping the opening set, Djokovic took a medical timeout while a trainer massaged his arm. A day earlier, during his fourth-round match, Djokovic had his right shoulder worked on by a trainer. Seven-time champion Roger Federer moved into his 12th semifinal at the All England Club with a straightforward 6-4, 6-2, 7-6 (4) victory over 2016 runner-up Milos Raonic. That left Federer as the only member of the sport's so-called Big 4 still standing: In addition to the exits for Murray and Djokovic, Rafael Nadal lost in the fourth round. That quartet has combined to win each of the past 14 Wimbledon titles. In Friday's semifinals, Querrey will face 2014 U.S. Open champion Marin Cilic of Croatia, who also won a five-setter Wednesday, getting past 16th-seeded Gilles Muller 3-6, 7-6 (6), 7-5, 5-7, 6-1 with the help of 33 aces. On the other half of the draw, Federer will face Berdych. Murray is normally a terrific returner, but Querrey hit 27 aces. He was impeccable for portions of the match, finishing with 70 winners and only 30 unforced errors. "He was dictating all of the points," Murray said. From 1-all in the fourth, Querrey grabbed eight games in a row to take that set and lead 3-0 in the last. "I didn't start my best, but I just kept with it. Kept swinging away and then really found a groove in the fourth and fifth set," Querrey said. "And everything kind of seemed to be falling my way then." It is the second year in a row that the 29-year-old Californian upset the defending champion and top-seeded man at the All England Club. In 2016, he ended Djokovic's 30-match Grand Slam winning streak by beating him in the third round. Murray didn't have that sort of recent dominance, but he is a three-time major champion and had been to at least the semifinals at the All England Club in seven of the past eight years. The hip, though, was a problem this time. Murray had to skip some practice sessions and pull out of a couple of planned exhibition matches before Wimbledon. Even though he kept insisting once the tournament began that he was OK, he was not capable of his best. Murray's serve speeds slowed, and his backhands didn't have their usual verve. He couldn't play his usual court-covering defense. "I was pretty close today. It wasn't like I was, like, a million miles away from winning the match," Murray said. "Obviously the end was a bit of a struggle." Querrey is the lowest-ranked player to ever beat two-time Wimbledon champion Murray in his 12 appearances at the grass-court Grand Slam tournament. For Murray, this was the fourth five-set match he's lost in a row. Querrey is headed in the opposite direction: Merely 4-10 in fifth sets for his career until last week, he has won each of his last three matches by going the distance: against 12th-seeded Jo-Wilfried Tsonga in the third round, Kevin Anderson in the fourth, and now Murray. Querrey always has had an intimidating serve, but he's never managed to put together his overall game for enough matches to play on the final weekend at a major. https://twitter.com/usta/status/845710647564423169 Indeed, until last year's win over Djokovic, he might have been best known for some of his unusual off-court episodes. In Thailand for a 2009 tournament, he cut two muscles in his right arm when he sat on a glass table that shattered. Two years ago, he appeared on the reality TV show "The Millionaire Matchmaker." There's a popular video clip on social media of Querrey - sunglasses and hat on, shirt unbuttoned - dancing with friends wearing horse-head masks. Now Querrey's on-court accomplishment Wednesday will make headlines. Win two more matches, and he'll be the Wimbledon champion.

Will Andy Murray's Hip Injury Cost Him the 2017 Season?

What is the injury Andy Murray has been suffering from? Since the week before the start of Wimbledon, Murray has been plagued by a worsening hip problem. Murray has not elaborated on the specifics of the injury, and even having been eliminated from the tournament yesterday refused to divulge any more detail. He did though reiterate that it's a long-standing problem: "I've been dealing with it for a very long time during my career," Murray said. "Obviously as you get older, things are a little bit tougher to manage than they are when you're younger. There's a bit more wear and tear there." Why did he not call for the trainer mid-match? Murray explained afterward that he did not call for a medical time-out because there's "nothing much you can do in that situation." Robert Brown, a physiotherapist at the Centre for Health and Human Performance (CHHP) told ESPN that Murray's assessment was correct. "He is probably right'" Brown says. "It would have been like putting a bandaid over a wound. It may have relieved his symptoms short-term, but that's it." Why did he not retire mid-match? Murray said that he didn't believe he would do himself any long-term damage by playing, so he persevered through the pain. Brown says of this diagnosis: "It's difficult to say [if this is correct] as we do not know what the exact injury is. However, if he has not worsened the injury he may have delayed his recovery from it." What sort of pain was Murray feeling? The world No 1 said on Wednesday that he has been in pain throughout the tournament, but did not want to dwell too much on the discomfort he was in. Asked to evaluate how Murray would have felt based on his work with other athletes, Brown said: "The chances are he would have felt a severe sharp pain around the front of his hip and/or groin region every time he put weight through it and especially during landed rotation movements. In my experience for an elite athlete to be affected by pain it would have been at around 7/10 or over. (0 being nothing, 10 being the most painful)." Will Murray have surgery to correct the problem? With the US Open less than seven weeks away, Murray is not going to undergo surgery in the next couple of months. He is also likely to want to avoid surgery at all costs having been scarred by the effects of his last operation. After undergoing back surgery in September 2013, Murray endured a disappointing 2014 and could not play to anything like his best level. According to Brown, recovery from this sort of surgery can be anything from 12 weeks to six months. He says that surgery is not the only option available to Murray though, as "conservative management of the problem, such as extensive physio work can return someone with a hip injury to 100%." What should Murray do next? He said yesterday that he will sit down with his medical team and assess his options. Brown would advise "not complete rest but a reduction of load to enable symptoms to reduce and to begin and progress rehabilitation. If all goes well, you would like acute symptoms to settle in two to three days and then begin a targeted rehab program to address the injury and underlying causes. "If things are not looking better in 8-12 weeks then he would have to reassess or alter his management plan." The next big tournament on the horizon is August's Rogers Cup in Montreal, for which Murray must be a major doubt.

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Novak Djokovic, Roger Federer on facing Wimbledon fears

No matter how big or great you get in any sport, your mind can become your greatest enemy. Just ask Novak Djokovic and Roger Federer. Both fall into the pantheon of greatest tennis players in history, but they've both been dealt severe setbacks in their careers.  With Wimbledon coming on Monday, both players deal with overcoming those fears on the court. When Novak Djokovic walked into Wimbledon a year ago, he possessed all four Grand Slam trophies. On Tuesday, he'll return empty-handed. A third-round defeat to Sam Querrey last year at the All England Club was the stunning start of a prolonged slump, a slump which Djokovic hopes he is finally on the way to ending after winning his second title of the year in Eastbourne on Saturday. Djokovic won the Eastbourne International beating Gael Monfils 6-3, 6-4 in the final, his first title since Janaury and his third in a year. "It's been a while now that I have been trying to find my best game and kind of consistency," Djokovic said. "It hasn't been the case for me in the last 12 months to win many big tournaments. "In order to, in a way, reach the next peak, you need to have a little drop, because, you know, that's how life kind of circulates around, as waves going up and down." His philosophical ponderings have become more familiar than the grit and intensity that saw him win six of the eight major titles available over a two-year period beginning at 2014 Wimbledon. Roger Federer and Rafael Nadal appeared to have been pushed to the brink of retirement, and Andy Murray to despair, having so often been Djokovic's prey in finals. Yet, the other three members of the Big Four, plus Stan Wawrinka, have each added a Grand Slam title in the past year, while Djokovic has been trying to work out what's gone wrong. To that end, he jettisoned coach Boris Becker in December, and long-time members of his support team in May. Another "super coach" in Andre Agassi was hired just before the French Open, where Djokovic faltered in the quarterfinals. He's since added former world No. 7 Mario Ancic to his team. Neither was in Eastbourne, but Agassi followed Djokovic's progress closely on television, and will meet up with him in London on Sunday. "He (Agassi) has noticed that my game has kind of raised the level and quality of tennis, is going in the right direction every match, and the competitive spirit and fighting spirit was there," Djokovic said. "I have been in the game long enough to know what I need to do. Playing at Wimbledon and playing at any other tournament, as a matter of fact, gives me a lot of joy, and I think that's the key." The three-time Wimbledon winner opens his account this as the second seed, against Martin Klizan of Slovakia. Write off Roger Federer at your own peril. The guy's been considered done by some folks at various times over the years, whether because of age or a bad back or a bum knee or a - gasp! - 4½-season drought without a Grand Slam title. And yet here he is, about to turn 36 next month, about to tie a record by playing in his 70th major tournament and, lo and behold, back to his old status as a popular pick to take home the title when Wimbledon begins on Monday. He is seeking an unprecedented eighth men's championship at the All England Club. "A player like Roger, as long as he's playing, you know, he's going to have a chance to win a Grand Slam. The day he will stop playing, that's when he will have no chance to win," said Stan Wawrinka, a three-time major champion who has played much of his career in his Swiss countryman's considerable shadow. "We all know as players, we all see on the court, we all see when we practice against him," said Wawrinka, who is friends with Federer and has teamed with him to win a Davis Cup title and an Olympic gold in doubles. "For sure, he had some years (that were) a little bit down - with some injury, with some tough results for him. That's part of a long career." The lasting image of Federer at Wimbledon a year ago was of him face-down on the Centre Court turf during the fifth set of a semifinal loss, betrayed by a surgically repaired left knee. Also tough to forget: The consecutive double-faults in the last game of the fourth set. He seemed more vulnerable than the tennis world had seen him in more than a decade. "The fall just really scared me," Federer said Saturday, fingers clasped as he leaned forward. Afterward, he recalled, he consulted with several doctors. Federer figured he would need a month off, maybe two. He was told that at least four months off was the proper way to heal. That meant no Olympics, no U.S. Open, no matches at all for the rest of 2016. All he's done since coming back this year is go 24-2 with four titles, including a record-extending 18th at a Grand Slam tournament by erasing a fifth-set deficit to beat Rafael Nadal in the Australian Open final in January. That was Federer's first major championship since Wimbledon in 2012, when he was a mere 30 years old. Some more time off would come during this season: Federer skipped the clay-court circuit, including the French Open, despite being healthy. "I was ready to play in Paris," he said. "I just didn't feel ready to go yet." Federer wanted, he explained, to give himself the best chance to succeed on his best surfaces, grass and hard courts. "We all felt the same way, that it's better to save myself and give it all I have for the rest of the season - not just the grass-court season, but looking beyond that, too, all the way to the American summer, staying on a 'fast-court tennis' sort of mindset," he said. Leaning back in his chair with arms crossed, he said of missing the French Open: "I kind of never regretted it, even though it hurt." He tuned up for Wimbledon by winning a grass-court tournament in Halle, Germany. In the final, he walloped one of the game's up-and-coming talents - Alexander Zverev, someone 15 years his junior - as if to prove that the kids can wait their turn. Tennis' old guard is still in charge of the sport. Federer, 31-year-old Nadal, and Novak Djokovic and Andy Murray, both 30, are the top four seeds at Wimbledon. They've combined to win the past 14 titles at the All England Club. "It's very even, when we put it all out on the line," Federer said about the so-called Big 4. This is Federer's 19th appearance at Wimbledon, two shy of Jimmy Connors' record in the Open era. Federer enters with 84 match wins, equal with Connors for the most. There are concessions to time, Federer acknowledges. He tried to get through practice Saturday as quickly as possible - "short and sweet, just to get it done" - and then planned to take Sunday off before the grind begins. The philosophy is the same during matches. An attacking style to shorten points, the occasional serve-and-volley, and the more powerful backhand he displayed in Australia against Nadal all can help save energy. "I don't want to be at the mercy of my opponent. I want to take charge, play aggressive myself," Federer said. "So for that, I need to be fast on my feet and quick in my mind. I just need enough rest so I can play enough inspired tennis."

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