Just found this article on the Miami website:
Andy Murray is the GREAT BRITISH HOPE, which means that Timothy Henry Henman, the long time top dog of Merry Olde England, has had to move over to make room for his younger colleague.
Britain is a tennis crazed kind of place and as Henman, a six-time Grand Slam semifinalist, was starting to show the wear and tear of age, the British public was wondering when a player would emerge to take over where the popular Henman left off.
They didn’t have to wonder too long as the Scotsman Murray showed up on the international tennis scene just in time. Lanky and talented, Murray is edging close to the top 10 – he’s currently enjoying a career high No. 12 as he vies for the coveted Sony Ericsson Open title.
It would be hard to find any tennis insider who doesn’t talk about talent when they talk about Murray – he’s got a really big game and room for improvement, which bodes well for his future.
Murray has hired on Brad Gilbert, the very guy who led Andy Roddick to his lone Grand Slam title at the 2003 U.S. Open, to mold him into a champion. Thus far, Murray has earned two career titles – he successfully defended his San Jose title in February.
In today’s match, Murray will take on American Robert Kendrick, who earned his spot in the Sony Ericsson Open draw when Lleyton Hewitt withdrew with a back injury. These two guys have played each other twice before with both encounters coming last summer – Murray double-bageled Kendrick in the Newport quarterfinals but needed four sets to bypass the hunky American in the U.S. Open first-round last August.
Whether Murray is to be the first Briton to deliver a Grand Slam trophy to Britain since Fred Perry, who won the last of his eight Grand Slam trophies in 1936, is to be answered in future years. (As way of a little trivia, fans should note that Perry soon thereafter turned pro and also became an American citizen, even fighting as a Yank during World War II).
But for now, fans can expect that Murray would love to land the biggest title of his career here at the Sony Ericsson Open. Someone down the line could stop Murray from making the trophy here his own, but Kendrick won’t keep him from progressing in the draw.
http://www.sonyericssonopen.com/content/20070324205426.html