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By Nick Georgandis

"Unfinished Business" might have been the them for Day One at Wimbledon, considering 31 matches didn't reach their conclusions because of the rain, including the wildly-entertaining French vs. French battle with 15th-seeded Gilles Simon struggling against countryman Edouard Roger-Vasselin, barely ahead at 4-6, 6-4, 6-3, 4-5.

The "bite my tongue" award goes to Scotland's Andy Murray, who vowed not to take his first-round opponent, Daniel Gimeno-Traver lightly, then did just that in blowing the first set 6-4 before rallying to win in four.

It's just not easy being Andy Murray these days, particularly at Wimbledon time when the local media falls all over itself reminding everyone that it's been 75 years now since a native man took the singles trophy home.

Of course, the UK is hardly the only country suffering a Wimbledon drought. France hasn't had a man take home the hardware since Yvon Petra in 1946, New Zealand, another early power, since 1913.

But having invented the game and all that tends to make the British a bit more bitter, and thus focuses all that vitrol on Murray, who has been ranked in the Top 5 for 145 straight weeks, but is still chasing that elusive first major title.

While Murray started the day off with a whimper, the United States' Christina McHale started it off with a bang. McHale slapped 28th-seeded Ekaterina Makarova straight out of the tournament, 2-6, 6-1, 8-6, taking the exhaustive, 67-minute third set in dramatic fashion.
McHale, who turned 19 last month, beat a player ranked in the Top 30 for the first time since knocking off No. 21 Nadia Petrova in Cincinnati last summer.


 

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