Mark Philippoussis
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"Mark Anthony Philippoussis" (born 7 November 1976) is an Australian former tennis player of Greeks/Greek and Italian people/Italian descent. He turned professional in 1994. His greatest achievements were reaching the finals of the 1998 US Open – Men's Singles/1998 US Open and the 2003 Wimbledon Championships – Men's Singles/2003 Wimbledon tournaments, losing to countryman Pat Rafter and Swiss Roger Federer respectively. He reached a career-high singles ranking of World No. 8.

He has had a minor career in modelling and starred in the American reality television dating show Age of Love (TV series)/Age of Love. He is nicknamed 'the Scud', after the Scud/Scud missile.

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I'm feeling good, looking forward (the opening match). Definitely, I can get through it.

Obviously, I'll do whatever it takes to get back.

I think about that pretty much every day.

It's not like I've got too much pride to play challengers. It's ridiculous. Of course if I have to do that, then I have to do that.

I'm just concentrating on that first match. That's the only thing I've got my mind on.

I'm definitely confident. I will go out and give it my all. It's all I can ask of myself and I have another couple of days to get ready.

It's not like I've got too much pride to play Challengers, ... It's all mental. I've been working hard off the court, very hard. Definitely lacking confidence. It's definitely what I'm lacking.

In the big picture, I think it's a good thing [for Murray]. He obviously had a lot of hype going into Wimbledon after his Queen's effort, and I think it's a good thing to go back to basics a little bit and win three tough qualifying matches.