My Mate Murray's Got the World at His Feet ; French Open Winner Rafael Nadal Says His Friend and Fellow Teenage Sensation Andy Murray has What It Takes to Make It to the Top. By Ian Chadband

Evening Standard - London (June 22, 2005)

Author: Ian Chadband

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AS the great and the good of tennis offered up paeans of praise for Andy Murray, our new young Wimbledon tyro, it was good to get the considered verdict of one ageing Grand Slam-winner in particular.

"He needs to improve some things but he's playing good and he's young," reckoned that wise old veteran Rafael Nadal, aged 19 years and two-and-a-half weeks.

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My Mate Murray's Got the World at His Feet ; French Open Winner Rafael Nadal Says His Friend and Fellow Teenage Sensation Andy Murray has What It Takes to Make It to the Top. By Ian Chadband

Hours earlier, Nadal's skinny 18-year-old Barcelona-based mate Murray had won his first Grand Slam match at Wimbledon by outclassing a has-been Swiss, George Bastl, and, faced with the daft hype which surroun...

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