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As professional tennis gears up for its return next week at the Palermo Ladies Open, Andy Murray believes that after nearly five months of inaction, players should prepare for a considerably different tour with ample upsets and opportunities for anyone bold enough to take them.
“You just can’t replicate matches in practice, it just isn’t the same,” said Murray. “It is different on the body, on the mind. The pressure is just different and no matter how hard you try to make your practices as challenging and difficult as matches, they just aren’t.
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