| Monday, 30 June 2008 Written by Sally Easton While younger brother Andy was grabbing the headlines with his scintillating win on Centre Court, Jamie Murray had a mixed day in his doubles matches - and showed off a new look. Murray had been sporting a McEnroe-style look during the Championships - a wildly curly mop complete with red headband - but today he showed up with a more sheer, streamlined crop for his two matches, one in the men’s doubles and the other in the mixed. And there were fears of a Samson-esque loss of performance when, along with doubles partner Max Mirnyi of Belarus, he was dumped out of the third round of the men's competition by in-form number two seeds, Daniel Nestor of Canada, and Serbia’s Nenad Zimonjic, losing in straight sets 6-2, 7-5, 6-3. Both Zimonjic and Nestor have, with different partners, been runners-up in the doubles competition here in three of the last five years. They’re hoping that, by banding together, they can go one better this time around. A bit of a rest for Murray and he was back again for the mixed doubles, where the 22-year-old is the reigning champion, having won the title and many hearts with Jelena Jankovic a year ago. But that particular duo are not defending their title. Instead Murray has teamed up with 31-year-old Liezel Huber of the US, who is a smart doubles player herself. She was runner-up with Mike Bryan in 2001, and is also the defending ladies’ doubles champion with Cara Black Murray and Huber, the 12th seeds, had a bye into the second round where they met Russian pair Dmitry Tursunov and Nadia Petrova. And to prevent his day being a double doubles disaster, Murray and Huber had to pull a fantastic third set out of the hat to take the tie 6-2, 2-6, 9-7. It was the third set that was the cracker. The first set went comfortably with the UK-US alliance, a lightning fast interception at the net by Jamie built set point and Huber capitalised with her next serve. The second set went just as comfortably to the Russian powerhouse pair. The third, however, went all the way with serve, with gutsy performances all round. This set was a tense time in the wider Murray household, and the cheers and groans from neighbouring Henman Hill - just a few yards from Court 19 - meant that Jamie would have had a fairly good idea of how younger brother Andy was performing. Eventually the break of serve went to the UK-US pair, leaving Huber to serve the 12th seeds safely into the third round and to ensure both Murray brothers could end the day with something to celebrate.
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