Andy Murray: Beijing taught me a lesson

Andy Murray, who has yet to win a tennis grand slam or an Olympic medal, intends to rectify one of those failings over the next two months on Wimbledon grass. Selected on Thursday as the first tennis player in Team GB, and the 248th athlete in a 550-strong British squad for the London Games, Murray said he had learned from his unhappy experience at the 2008 Beijing Games. The current British No 1 and world No 4 suffered the massive shock of losing his first round singles match to Taiwan's lowly ranked Lu Yen-Hsun in straight sets in 2008. "Having had the experience of last time I think I will have learned from that and do things a little bit differently this time and hopefully that will contribute to a better performance," the 25-year-old Scot told reporters at Wimbledon."I was very disappointed when I finished so early in Beijing but it also gave me a kick up the bum," added the three-times Grand Slam finalist. "I ended up doing well at the US open afterwards because I was very disappointed with myself and really went for it."from gulfnews.com