Andy Murray Bookies Favourite to Win Australian Open

The 19th January 2009 sees the start of the 2009 Australian Open and this year unlike any other sees a whole new exciting aspect to this tennis tournament. It appears that our own Andy Murray is being dubbed the man to bring this particular trophy home, and the bookies favourite not only in good old Blighty but also with the Australian bookies too. Who ever said hell would freeze over first at the merest hint of a British major tennis tournament victory, might just be buying a pair of ice skates for the devil as Andy Murray is something of the bookies grand slam darling.

It seems like only yesterday that Andy Murray reached, seemingly against all the odds, to the heady heights of the quarter finals of Wimbledon and now is being fêted as the likely winner against the might of such exceptional tennis players as Rafael Nadal and Roger Federer. How could such an unlikely hypothesis occur? The recent Abu Dhabi exhibition tournaments saw Scot Andy Murray playing exceptionally well, beating both Nadal and Federer, and then when Federer was expected to be all out for revenge in the Qatar ExxonMobil Open semi-finals held in Doha, Andy Murray - the No.4, again was victor which led to a meeting with American Andy Roddick. Andy Roddick also fell foul of the dynamic play of Andy Murray and when Murray eventually won, Roddick was pragmatic about the result and was quoted as saying “Sometimes you just have to give credit. He played great. He is probably in the best form of anybody in the world right now” and “I don’t think the question is if Murray will win a grand slam, it is when”

Andy Murray himself still believes that he hasn’t played his best tennis yet, so all his rivals at the 2009 Australian Open best look out. This could at last end the long wait for a British triumph in a major grand slam and give the British something to be proud of on the tennis courts. Good Luck Andy the whole of England Scotland and Wales will be rooting for you to be the ultimate winner in the 2009 Australian Open.