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The festivities at Queen’s Club didn’t end after Andy Murray beat Marin Cilic 5-7, 7-5, 6-3 on Sunday to win his third ATP title of the year. After the match, Murray participated in “The Rally Against Cancer,” a fundraising exhibition for the Royal Marsden, the hospital at which friend and ATP doubles player Ross Hutchins is being treated for cancer. Murray teamed with Tim Henman to take on Ivan Lendl and Tomas Berdych.

“I honestly want to win this match more than the one we just played,” Murray told BBC interviewer Sue Barker after the final. “I have to spend a week with him [Lendl] before Wimbledon, the preparations, and if me and Tim lose to him, he’s going to be all over me.”

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The King of Ill-Advised Trick Shots was at it again on Friday.

After winning the first set, Gael Monfils was serving at 3-5 in the second set of his quarterfinal match against Tommy Haas at the Gerry Weber Open when he had an easy lob to put away to take a 30-15 lead in the game. Instead, the Frenchman let the lob bounce between his legs to set up a spinning overhead with his back to the net. He eventually lost the point, got broken for the set and lost the match 6-7 (3), 6-3, 6-3.

Now let us all join in one collective head shake at the Continually Curious Case of Gael Monfils. What’s more jaw-dropping: That he even went for a shot like this or that he almost (not really) pulled it off?

Last month, Monfils hit a no-look backhand winner against Jurgen Melzer in Munich. In February, he displayed incredible court coverage to win a point against Juan Martin del Potro in Rotterdam, the Netherlands.

Monfils is coming off a third-round appearance at the French Open, where he upset Tomas Berdych in the first round and filmed the crowd doing the Wave during his second-round victory against Ernests Gulbis. He squandered a two-set lead in his loss to Tommy Robredo.

Monfils announced earlier in the week he will be skipping Wimbledon.

(h/t The Changeover)

ROME — Viktor Troicki went on a four-minute tirade at the Italian Open on Wednesday that had even his notoriously short-tempered opponent calling for the meltdown to finally end.

Troicki trailed 6-1 and faced break point in the first game of the second set against Ernests Gulbis when he hit a backhand that chair umpire Cedric Mourier overruled and called long, giving the game to Gulbis. Mourier inspected the mark and confirmed the call, believing there was space between the outline of the ball on the clay and the line. Not satisfied, Troicki hopped over the net and had a look for himself.

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Victoria Azarenka’s loss at the Madrid Open was her first defeat of the year. (Julian Finney/Getty Images)

Victoria Azarenka lost her cool and ripped the chair umpire on Wednesday during her first loss of the year.

Azarenka’s 18-match winning streak to begin 2013 ended with a 1-6, 6-2, 6-3 loss to 24th-ranked Ekaterina Makarova in the second round of the Madrid Open. The world No. 3 unraveled after blazing through the first set, as Azarenka dropped the last five games of the match and hit 41 unforced errors overall.

Azarenka’s frustration boiled over in the third set and umpire Mariana Alves took the brunt of it. In the first point of the seventh game, Azarenka sent a slice forehand long and smashed her racket in disgust. Alves gave her a code violation for racket abuse. Unbeknownst to Azarenka, it was her second code violation of the match (she received a code violation for an audible obscenity earlier), meaning an automatic point penalty and a 30-0 lead for Makarova. An incredulous Azarenka lashed out at Alves.

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The old man still has some tricks up his sleeve.

Tommy Haas’ second-round victory over Ernests Gulbis at the BMW Open in Munich included this lunging forehand volley that had so much spin that it came back over the net to Haas’ side before Gulbis could return it.

Haas, 35, is into the Munich semifinals after beating Florian Mayer 6-4, 6-1 on Friday. The third-seeded and 14th-ranked Haas will play surprise semifinalist Ivan Dodig, who has already beaten two-time champion Nikolay Davydenko, No. 2 seed Marin Cilic and No. 5 seed Alexandr Dolgopolov this week. Dodig is ranked No. 56.

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Roger Federer is class on the court and in the interview room. (Adam Davis/Icon SMI)

With Andy Roddick’s retirement, we lost one of the best talkers in the game. Roddick was never shy expressing his opinions about anything. His penchant for taking on reporters for asking dumb questions was second to none.

Thankfully, there are still a number of players who keep things interesting in the interview room, either because of their wit, unpredictability or thoughtfulness. Here are the 10 players I consider to be the best interviews. It doesn’t matter what I’m doing, if I hear their names announced over the PA system at a tournament, I’ll pick up my recorder and go.

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Caroline Wozniaki donned the traditional white boiler suit and green hat Wednesday to caddie for main squeeze Rory McIlroy in the traditional Masters par-3 contest, which takes place the day before play begins at Augusta National. When she was given the chance to take a swing off the tee, well, let’s just say she would have been better off hitting one of her famous moonballs. The form didn’t look half bad until she chunked it into the water.

“Well, it had spin on it. We can say that.” Gotta love the commentary.

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Novak Djokovic defeated Sam Querrey 7-5, 6-7 (4), 6-1, 6-0 on Sunday to give Serbia a 3-1 victory over the United States in the Davis Cup quarterfinals, but the triumph may have come at a costly price.

The No. 1 suffered an injury scare after he twisted his right ankle early in the match and fell to the ground in anguish. Djokovic continued with the help of some anti-inflammatories, secured the decisive, emotionally charged win and then broke down in tears after the match during an interview with Serbian press.

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During her quarterfinal match against Kirsten Flipkens at the Sony Open, Agnieszka Radwanska hits a winner that literally made me jump off my couch. How good was this no-look spinning backhand drop volley? It actually elicited a smile from the notoriously straight-faced Radwanska.

So what do you think? Shot of the year so far?

Andy Murray hadn’t won a match at the BNP Paribas Open since 2010, having lost in his opening round the last two years to Donald Young and Guillermo Garcia-Lopez. So you can imagine the panic around Stadium Court as Murray fell behind 4-1 to Russian Evgeny Donskoy on Sunday in his first match since losing the Australian Open final.

Especially when Donskoy started hitting return winners like this, which left Oracle CEO and owner of the BNP Paribas Open Larry Ellison in a state of complete shock.

Donskoy went on to take the first set before Murray rebounded to win 5-7, 6-2, 6-2 to advance to the third round to play Lu Yen-Hsun.