Murray can also take into the match the memory of his only meeting with Djokovic on grass, a straight-sets victory in last year's Olympic semi-finals.
Moving your body instead of your arms will ultimately make the cut on the grass much straighter.
A grass walkway running straight as a die carries the eye forward across what once was a croquet lawn, and horizontal walks extend left and right like the arms of a cross.
By my second trail ride, the initial author found the horse took a mouthful of grass and went straight into a trot all by himself and at the end of that ride, he had kicked the habit altogether.
Parking in a small pulloff, we follow an unmarked trail that drops steeply, past a sheltering band of pines, to a meadow of waving tall grasses that flow straight to the edge of the sea-cliffs.
Federer certainly remains strong here, and he advanced to the third round by winning his 61st straight grass-court match with a 6-3, 6-4, 7-6 (3) victoveroveRobin Soderlingng, a dangerous Swede with a potent serve.
JOHANSSON WINS IN NOTTINGHAM: Thomas Johansson of Sweden is ready for Wimbledon, winning his second straight grass-court championship by beating Harel Levy of Israel, 7-5, 6-3, in the Nottingham final in England.
First on red clay, then green grass, then across the straight white lines of a freshly painted football pitch.
In her first match ever on grass, Vogt lost in straight sets, but she still got the thrill of carrying the Liechtenstein flag in the Opening Ceremonies, leading her country's two other athletes around Olympic Stadium.
