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Murray wary of repeating mistakes

Andy Murray will not make the same mistake twice as he attempts to reach the quarter-finals of a grand slam for the first time on Monday.

Murray takes on France's Richard Gasquet in the fourth round on Centre Court hoping to improve on his last appearance at this stage when he slumped to a three-set defeat to Marcos Baghdatis after beating Andy Roddick in round three.

"I just wasn't used to anything," explained the 21-year-old. "That's the first time I made the fourth round of a slam and I was not used to playing tournaments that obviously last more than a week."

He added: "I didn't deal with it very well, I didn't play great in the match. I felt I'd really achieved something once I'd got there.

"I was almost happy with what I'd done in the tournament. I still wanted to win but I was just a little bit flat out there.

"I don't want to have that sort of attitude going into the second week this time. It's almost as if you've got to view it as sort of a new tournament and got to be fired up for the first ball on Monday.

"But it is a long time ago, two years. For a sports person it is definitely a long time. I'm sure I'll perform much better against Gasquet than I did a couple of years ago.

"Now I feel I'm better prepared to go deep into a slam. That's really the main difference. I've put in the work off the court to believe that I can win a slam.

"There's a big jump obviously from the position I'm in now to getting to the final. It's still three matches away and I'm going to have to beat some really tough players if I want to go on and do that.

"But I'm not really thinking about reaching the quarter-final. I'm more interested in making it to the final."

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