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Andy Murray slated for ‘pulling a Djokovic’ to disrupt Seppi and make it through Wimbledon tie

Published 21:00 4 Jul 2015 BST

Updated 23:50 4 Jul 2015 BST

Conan Doherty
Andy Murray slated for ‘pulling a Djokovic’ to disrupt Seppi and make it through Wimbledon tie

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Irony.

Andy Murray might have been genuinely injured. He might've needed treatment, he might've been completely justified or maybe he was just getting his own back on Andreas Seppi. But it's safe to say that the Scotsman isn't being called British tonight by the English contingent who saw his tactics to call a medical trainer during a wobble in form as underhand and hypocritical. Murray wasn't happy when Novak Djokovic seemed to disrupt their Australian Open final to get treatment - coinciding with a direct interruption to Andy's dominance and Djoker sauntering to victory over a wound-up opponent. Tonight at Wimbledon, the British number one was tearing strips off Seppi until a calf injury of the Italian halted the play. Murray duly imploded in the third set and lost the opener of the fourth so decided to have a little timeout of his own - going on to win the fourth and final set 6-1. And even the official tournament Twitter account made light of it. https://twitter.com/Wimbledon/status/617415604841119745 But some of the spectators weren't happy at good, old Andy for apparently implementing Djokovic's tactics (if Djokovic's tactics really are to get injured). https://twitter.com/brianking80/status/617413051579543552 https://twitter.com/DjokerSA/status/617411478904250368 https://twitter.com/JamesDesigns_/status/617410968650416128 https://twitter.com/2ndServeHack/status/617410305656684544 https://twitter.com/AgronArsenal/status/617409867775635456 https://twitter.com/zveljka/status/617417090669129728 Murray now marches on to the last 16 to face Ivo Karlovic and the way we see it is if these timeouts really help him avoid meltdowns, keep them up, Andy. (Maybe just don't cry about it when someone does it to you though)

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