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Murraymania keeps on building … but Andy’s unimpressed

Andy Murray’s brutal straight sets victory over Juan Carlos Ferrero took him through to the semi-finals at Wimbledon for the first time in his career on Wednesday but while the centre court fans and the Henman Hill mob did their Mexican waves one man was singularly unimpressed by the Murraymania.

Murray himself is doing his best to let the media frenzy pass him by. He may have received notes of encouragement from the Queen, Sean Connery and Cliff Richard, and he knows he will be all over the front and back pages of the newspapers again on Thursday, but to say the Scot is staying cool would be a massive understatement. Here’s what he said after the 7-5 6-3 6-2 win over Ferrero:

“It doesn’t make any difference the way you perform, the hype. If you spend the whole time, if you work in the media and spend a lot of time reading the papers, watching everything on the TV, getting said all the things that are getting said on the radio, then you get caught up in it.

If you ignore it you don’t realize it’s happening. You don’t take anything that’s being said about you. You know, I don’t read it because 90% of the stuff’s gonna be pretty much untrue anyway.”

Ouch.

Murray didn’t sound too impressed to hear that Kate Winslet had been in the crowd either, although he did concede it might be good for the sport.