But when his pounding ground strokes with wicked spin find their desired target he can be virtually unplayable. If they are smart, England will grab themselves a piece of him while he is still extraordinary.. Andy Murray's first odyssey on the ATP Tour came to an end here last night when he was defeated, 6-4, 3-6, 6-1 by the fourth seeded Fernando Gonzalez, of Chile, in the quarter-finals at the Davidoff Swiss Indoor Tournament. I let it get to me - the rain, the crowd, the fact that I was down in Wales with all the hostility of the crowd. I think I'm a better, stronger player as a result of that game."Strong enough to play for England one day? Maybe sooner rather than later? "Of course I'd love to win a cap," he said. "But I've just turned 20 and my priority is to build a career for myself here. I don't feel like the new kid on the block any more, but I still have to prove myself to my colleagues.
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Good press is nice, but in the end, I'll be judged by the people who coach me and play alongside me."Abnormally fast, a natural finisher and a thinker to boot Leicester are lucky to have Tom Varndell. I'd had the odd quiet match, but that was the first time I'd turned in a really bad one."It was good for me, I think, although it was pretty grim at the time Those are the experiences that teach you something. What did I learn? The importance of focus, of concentration, and of understanding the price you pay for trying too hard to correct your previous mistake rather than applying yourself to the next task. At the end of last month, Varndell was implicated in one of the worst Leicester performances in living memory - a Powergen Cup defeat in the rain and wind at Newport-Gwent Dragons.
It was one of those desperate Friday night affairs where things start horribly and go downhill from there "It was," he agreed, "absolutely awful. Most of us were off our games that evening, but I was worse than anyone I was taken off and rightly so. He didn't ignore me, but he didn't make a point of putting a hand on my shoulder either. It was his way of accepting me, of making me feel I had a right to be there."This rugby life is not all milk and honey, though.
