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http://www.footballpanthershop.com/Chris_Scott_Jersey_Cheapthe world, 854 places adrift of Andy Murray, with whom he hit again on Saturday. He has earned ?130,000 in his career, just ?6,600 of it this year, and was ?12,000 in the red before he made the Wimbledon main draw last year. Life for Ward, like many of his contemporaries, is what most matches are for Murray: tough. When he looked up the draw before the final allocation, he was hoping for a soft landing. “I saw that Andy had [a qualifier],” he said, “and straight away I didn’t want that. I did not want to play Andy. That was the toughest. It’s still gonna be a tough match [against Edmund] but I’ll give it my all.” Playing a compatriot sometimes can be difficult – although it is not such a regular occurrence for British players for cruelly obvious reasons – and Ward said: “We went on a few trips when I was based at the LTA with him, and we trained together quite a bit there. We played in America, in Florida in the Futures. He won that tournament. That
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