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Tennis sensation Andy Murray is ranked in the worlds top 20 for mens tennis.  Tennis can be a demanding and often hazardous sport that can be dangerous to the health. Murray has a swift rank recovery after falling down the rankings due to injury.

Even for a player who has never been afraid to show his emotions, Andy Murray was shocked by a video nasty featuring Mikhail Youzhny, who drew blood after repeatedly hitting his forehead with his racket on court in Miami last week.

“I saw it on YouTube,” Murray said. “The first time I watched it I thought he was hitting his head with his strings. Then I slowed it down a few times and it was right on the inside of the frame of the racket. I can see that it’s easy to get frustrated, but those frames are pretty hard. He looked dizzy after he did it. He was bent over. It was awful.”

While Murray can still be hard on himself on court – “The worst thing I’ve done is punch the strings,” he said – he is as laid-back as ever off it. Speaking yesterday at David Lloyd Leisure in Raynes Park in south-west London, where he met some of the 15,000 children who have joined his “Tennis AllStars” programme, the Scot brushed aside a suggestion that he might be concerned about falling outside the world’s top 20 for the first time since August 2006.

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