Murray Wary of Ljubicic's Big Serve in Testing Third-Round Encounter

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Andy Murray knows the real business of Wimbledon 2011 starts today when he takes on veteran Croatian Ivan Ljubicic for a place in the fourth round. The fourth seed's aim for his first two matches against Daniel Gimeno-Traver and Tobias Kamke was to get through as comfortably as possible, and he managed that reasonably well, dropping only one set.

Ljubicic is likely to pose a significantly greater threat, however. The 32-year-old looked to be on a downward spiral when he dropped out of the top 70 two years ago, but instead he found some of the best form of his career. At the Indian Wells Masters in the spring of 2010, the former world number three won the biggest title of his career and a first-round win over Marin Cilic here served notice of the threat he could pose to Murray.

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Murray Wary of Ljubicic's Big Serve in Testing Third-Round Encounter

The British number one said: "The pressure is nicer in some ways once you manage to get through a round or two.

"Now you're not necessarily expe...

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