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Andy Murray and Laura Robson split Wimbledon focus
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Andy Murray and Laura Robson split Wimbledon focus
Britain's Andy Murray and Laura Robson will
both take to Centre Court on Friday after rain precious the plan at Wimbledon.
Robson will play
Colombia's Mariana Duque-Marino in their second-round match at 13:00 BST, with
the climate preventing them from appear on Court Two on Thursday.
Murray will hope to
take another step from side to side an more and more unbolt draw when he plays
Tommy Robredo in the third round at just about 17:00, after 15th kernel Nicolas
Almagro takes on 24th seed Jerzy Janowicz.
Robson, 19, upset 10th
seed Maria Kirilenko in the first round, aperture up a latent path into the
second week of the tournament.
Duque-Marino, 23, is
happiest on clay courts but battled through three rounds of qualifying and beat
world number 36 Julia Goerges in the main draw on Tuesday.
"She's tough for
sure, she's pretty consistent," said Robson. "I think she's got quite
a mean little slice, so it's going to be a tough match."
Second seed Murray,
26, will hope to avoid the fate of Rafael Nadal,Roger Federer and Jo-Wilfried Tsonga, all of whom have made early exits.
Almagro is the highest
seed remaining in Murray's half of the draw at 15, but the Scot refuses to look
beyond his next match and a place in the last 16.
He faces an
experienced fighter in the 31-year-old Robredo, who has fought his way back up
to 29 in the world ranking after slipping as low as 471 last year when he
missed five months with a leg injury.
"At his age, it's
obviously a good effort to come back from a tough damage, but he's a top
player," said Murray.
Day 5:
"He had a good
win [in round two] against Nicolas Mahut, who has been playing well on the
grass. He's very, very experienced. He's extremely fit. He won three matches in a row at the French Open from two sets
to love down. He fights right until
the last point.
"When he's not
injured, he's been in the top 20 in the world for a number of years. He knows
how to win tennis matches, so it's a tough match for me."
This time last year, Robredo was ranked 266 and he has since won the 10th ATP title of his
career in Casablanca. He was one of the story of the French Open when he become
only the second man ever to come back from 0-2 down in three uninterrupted
Grand Slam matches.
He has also won two of
his four previous matches against Murray, although they were their first two
meetings in 2006 and 2007.
"I have zero to lose,"
said the Spaniard. "I'm enjoying myself. I'm in concert great tennis. It's
lovely to be in a Grand Slam playing one of the best players on tour.
"Also he's
British, so he's going to have the crowd, we're going to have Centre Court. It
will be lovely to be on Centre Court here again."
He added: "If I
have no chance, I don't go into the court, I go home. This way I have one more
day of holiday.
"So I'm going to
go for it; I'm going to go into the court and try my best. If I have a probability,
I will try to get it. If not, then I'll wish many happy returns to him, finest
of luck to him, see you next time."
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