STUART FRASER

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JAMIE MURRAY OUT IN AUSTRALIA
BritishTennis.net
By Stuart Fraser in Melbourne
28^th January 2009

24 hours after his brother Andy was knocked out of the singles, Jamie Murray’s doubles campaign also came to an end yesterday at the Australian Open in Melbourne.

Along with Liezel Huber of the USA, the fourth seeds were knocked out of the second round of the Mixed Doubles by unseeded Natalie Dechy of France and Andy Ram of Israel.

The match was played in extremely hot conditions on the Margaret Court Arena and the first set was fairly even with both pairs exchanging breaks of serve.

The set eventually went to a tiebreak which came just after Murray had received a warning for ball abuse after hitting the ball so high and far, it dropped into the adjacent Rod Laver Arena.

Despite the code violation, Murray and Huber clinched the tiebreak 8 – 6 with some aggressive play, particularly at the net.

It was a different story in the second set though with Murray and Huber making more errors and Dechy and Ram produced some strong serving to take the set 6 – 2 and level the match.

The unseeded pair carried the momentum into the deciding champions tie-break and despite being down a mini-break, a strong finish clinched the tie-break 10 – 4.

Murray will now look ahead to joining up again with, new partner for 2009, Dusan Vemic in the Men’s Doubles at the Zagreb Indoors in Croatia which begin on Monday.