Teens moving up in the tennis world.

Publication: South Florida Sun-Sentinel (via Knight-Ridder/Tribune News Service)

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COPYRIGHT 2005 South Florida Sun-Sentinal

Byline: Charles Bricker

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla.

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"Andy Murray will be top 50 by the U.S. Open."

Martina Navratilova, at Wimbledon

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Whoops. He's not quite going to make it. The feisty 18-year-old Scot, who won one and lost one at Cincinnati last week, moved up into a tie for 104 when the new rankings came out on Monday.

Like Martina, a lot of us were greatly impressed by the maturity of Murray's game when he defeated Radek Stepanek and made the third round at Wimbledon.

But the idea he could go from 200-something to top 50 in five weeks was ludicrous. His ranking wasn't good enough to get into most of the regular tour stops, and he had to play Challengers, winning at Aptos,...

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