Daily Mirror

FIGHTING FIT

Andy shrugs off Federer threat & growing injury concerns to insist he is ready to defend crown

- BY NEIL McLEMAN

ANDY MURRAY claimed Roger Federer’s status as the red-hot Wimbledon favourite means nothing as he declared himself fit to retain his title.

The defending champion, nursing a troublesom­e hip, has drifted to fourth favourite in his home Grand Slam.

But the world No.1 yesterday insisted he was ready to equal Fred Perry’s haul of three titles at the All England Club.

Federer is 2-1 with the bookies to claim his eighth Wimbledon crown at the age of 35.

“Whether someone’s

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SERVE UP A TREAT Murray giving his all as he practises yesterday

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