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The triple bagel is probably the most dominant approach to wrap up a best-of-five encounter. Because the begin of the Open period, we’ve got seen six triple bagels at Majors, with the final one coming within the 2001 Wimbledon remaining qualifying spherical.
Triple bagel has been extra frequent on the Davis Cup, particularly when somebody meets a lower-ranked participant with no type or expertise. Nice Britain confronted Luxembourg within the 2011 Group II on the Braehead Enviornment in Glasgow, and Andy Murray confronted an unranked Laurent Bram on July 8.
Andy stormed over his opponent 6-0, 6-0, 6-0 in 52 minutes for probably the most dominant victory of his profession. Murray misplaced his spot within the top-4 earlier that season, enjoying within the Australian Open remaining earlier than experiencing early exits in Rotterdam, Indian Wells and Miami.
Andy bounced again on clay, enjoying properly and returning into the top-4 behind his best rivals. Murray was the semi-finalist in Monte Carlo, Rome and Roland Garros, dropping to Novak Djokovic and Rafael Nadal earlier than conquering the title at Queen’s.Within the Wimbledon semi-final, Nadal toppled Murray in 4 units, and the Briton had no time for relaxation.
Murray traveled north to his native Scotland and led Nice Britain in opposition to Luxembourg in a Group II tie in Glasgow. Enjoying the Davis Cup for the primary time since September 2009, Murray and the remainder of the squad proved too sturdy for his or her lower-ranked rivals in entrance of the house followers.
As we already mentioned, Murray defeated Bram and entered a particular checklist of gamers with a triple bagel on their tallies. Bram barely cracked the top-1000 at one level in 2006 and had one official match within the earlier 4 years earlier than going through Murray!
Andy Murray scored a triple bagel versus Laurent Bram within the 2011 Davis Cup.
Laurent had been working as a coach at residence in Luxembourg, becoming a member of the nationwide Davis Cup squad however standing powerless in opposition to one of many world’s greatest gamers.
It was the primary triple bagel for the British gamers since Alan Mills delivered one in opposition to Luxembourg in Davis Cup in 1959, with Andy appearing as a dominant determine from begin to end. Murray misplaced 15 factors, together with back-to-back double faults at the start of the third set!
He recovered to take the sport and by no means seemed again till the tip to ship a uncommon feat. The Briton misplaced 5 factors within the opener and clinched it in 16 minutes. With simply over half an hour on the clock, Andy led 6-0, 6-0 following one other bagel due to a dominant efficiency within the second set.
Bram stood no likelihood within the third set outdoors these two errors from Murray, and the Briton sealed the deal in model to enter historical past books. “It is good to be again in Scotland after not being right here for 18 months. The help has been nice.
My grampa is a fairly sturdy critic; he doesn’t like many errors, so I hope he was glad. You need to win as shortly as you may. It was powerful for Bram, who doesn’t play that many tournaments anymore,” Andy Murray mentioned.