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Injury talk gets Murray’s back up
AS THE good and the great assemble in Paris for the start of the French Open today, Andy Murray is trying to find a little peace and quiet. He wishes everyone would just get off his back. For the past six months, he has been troubled by a nagging back injury and while he will not explain exactly what is wrong or what treatment he has had for it, this week he has been at pains to point out that it is really not that bad. Nonetheless, reports of his terminal decline have gathered momentum and just a couple of days ago, Boris Becker suggested in one of the London newspapers that Scotland’s finest should forgo the French Open in order to save himself and his ailing body for the rigours of Wimbledon and the Olympics. That was the final straw and while it may not have broken the back of Dunblane’s most famous camel, it clearly gave him the hump.
Cycling: It’s Millar time
Ride pays tribute to nation’s greatest road cyclist on the hills where he trained
Tennis: Elena Baltacha faces stern test
ELENA Baltacha will go into the opening day of play at the French Open confident she can pull off a huge shock against US Open champion Samantha Stosur this afternoon.
De Gendt hits new heights with 57km breakaway Giro mountain victory
Belgian Thomas De Gendt climbed to a solo stage win and fourth place overall behind leader Joaquim Rodriguez thanks to a spectacular 57-kilometre mountain breakaway yesterday.
Elena Baltacha suffers Prague semis defeat
SCOTLAND’s Elena Baltacha missed out on the chance to get to the final of the Sparta Prague Open yesterday when she went down in straight sets to the Czech No.2 seed Klara Zakopalova in the semis.
Federer goes through the pain barrier
AN ACHING Roger Federer made up for lost time yesterday as he saw off Carlos Berlocq of Argentina 6-3, 6-4 to reach the third round of the Rome Masters.
Carrot-fuelled Carter hares into the final
Ali Carter marched into the Betfred.com World Championship final and revealed his title charge is being fuelled by a ten-bags-a-day carrot habit.
Richard Moore: Mall of confusion over drugs
PICTURE the scene. The Mall, Saturday, 28 July. At the finish of the men’s Olympic road race Spain’s Alejandro Valverde outsprints Holland’s Thomas Dekker for the gold medal, with Kazakhstan’s Alexandre Vinokourov claiming bronze.
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Snooker: Stephen Hendry humbles John Higgins
STEPHEN Hendry completed a crushing 13-4 victory over John Higgins yesterday, winning the one frame required to reach the quarter-finals of the Betfred.com World Championship.
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