Weather will not rain on Murray parade

Title bid still on as Andy beats Janowicz

AAM are back in action in Division 1 of the men’s hockey National League when they travel to play Grange at Fettes College on Saturday.

AtCountesswellsthereare District Cup ties, with AAM Gordonians 2nds pitted against Anchor, and at the Sports Village Granite City Wanderers 2nds will meet Grove Menzieshill 2nds.

In the Reserve Cup AAM Gordonians 3rds are at home to Hillhead 3rds, Stepps 3rds play Grammar 3rds and FalikrkGHG3rds are at home to Granite City Wanderers 3rds. American Lindsey Vonn is set toski for the first time in 10 months this week as she targets a December return to the World Cup circuit.

Vonn underwent major knee surgery in January after a crash in November which ruled her out of the Winter Olympics in Sochi.

The 2010 Olympicdownhill gold medallistandfourtimeWorld Cup champion, girlfriend of golfer Tiger Woods, will make her return during a training week in Austria.

Vonn hopes to return for the World Cup race in Canada in the first week of December, and said: “A lot of people don’t think I will be back. That’s fine. They’ll definitely realise the veteran is not gone yet.” Andy Murray believes the drastic change in weather conditions is the biggest threat to his hopes of winning back to backATPtitles this week.

The former Wimbledon champion, who won the Shenzhen Open on Sunday, overcame a slow start to beat Poland’s Jerzy Janowicz 6-7 (9-11), 6-4, 6-2 in the first round of the China Open in Beijing yesterday.

Murray made 19 unforced errors to leave himself 5-1 down to Janowicz in the first set, but won five of the next six games to force a tie-break.

He saved two set points, but Janowicz took the first set 11- 9 before Murray found his rhythm to win the next two sets to set-up a second round meeting against Uruguayan Pablo Cuevas.

The Scot was pleased to progress, but claimed conditions had been tough throughout the match.

He said: “The conditions here are opposite to what I’ve played in Shenzhen. Today when we finished the match i t was 11 degrees.

“When we were playing in Shenzhen, it was 33, 34 degrees, and incredibly humid. Itwasverydifferent and a quick turnaround to get used to that.

“I’m just going to play each match, try to get through them if I can. I don’t feel like I played a particularly good match today but I played hard and triedmy best and managed to get the win. That’s what I’ll try to do this week.”

The 27-year-old is looking for another strong showing this week to boost his bid to qualify for the Barclays ATP World Tour Finals.

After his Shenzhen victory, Murray moved up one place to 10th in the Emirates ATP Race To London, with the leading eight at the end of the regular season qualifying for the yearend championships.

He said: “To come back and win my first tournament after 14-15 months was important for me. And also the way it happened for me as well with saving five match points doesn’t happen particularly often, so luck was on my side a little bit. I’ll just try to keep that momentum going through to the end of the Asian swing.”

“It was very different and a quick turnaround to get used to that”

Ross Hutchins has left his role as tournament director of the Aegon Championships to take up a new position as the ATP’s vicepresident of player relations.

The 29-year-old former Commonwealth Games silver medallist will be replaced at Queen’s Club by the tournament’s managing director Stephen Farrow.

Doubles specialist Hutchins was diagnosed withHodgkin's Lymphoma in 2012 and sat out the 2013 season while he was treated, before returning to action at the start of this year.

He announced his playing retirement on September 12.