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Andy Murray is refusing to look ahead to a potential Wimbledon semi-final against top seed Rafael Nadal, instead remaining solely focused on his opening match of the tournament.

The 23-year-old is on course to meet the imperious Spaniard in the last four at the All England Club - where he opens his campaign against another Spaniard, Daniel Gimeno-Traver. Unlike in the past, however, the Scot is not allowing his attention to wander beyond the contest in front of him.

"I'm not looking anywhere past the first match. It's not worth it," Murray said. "It's happened to me before when I was younger and you lose if you're thinking about playing against Nadal in the semi-finals or whoever it is in the quarter-finals.

"There's tough matches everywhere, as you would have seen last year. Rafa had a couple of long matches that he nearly lost, Roger [Federer] nearly lost in the first round against someone that you would have never expected him to lose to."

Murray's form dipped dramatically after reaching the final of the Australian Open at the beginning of the year, but victory in the AEGON Championships at Queen's Club suggests his game is coming together nicely ahead of his home major.

He acknowledged that perhaps he'd made some mistakes after the disappointment of Melbourne, but has recovered ground after deciding to work with his sponsor's staff coaches, Darren Cahill and Sven Groeneveld.

"After the Australian Open, I thought, 'Well, I need to change a lot of things in my game, change the way I was training.' That wasn't really the case," he said.

"I made some changes to my coaching set-up after the bad run in the States and that's definitely helped.

"I'd been thinking about it for a while but I think it's natural when you work so hard to try to achieve something. You don't quite do it and you question the work that you're doing, your game, what should I do to improve.

"But when you actually look back, you're not that far away from doing it. It's very minor things you need to change."

Murray is also over any lingering ankle problems that were afflicting him at the end of the French Open and beginning of his Queen's campaign.

"It feels good. I've had no problems with it in practice the last few days," he said. "I've been doing all the training that I wanted to do.

"I think it's been quite tough for everyone because it's just been tough conditions. But I think I've got good enough practice in."

Meanwhile, Roger Federer believes Murray is 'way good enough' to win Wimbledon at some point in his career.

The 14-time major champion hopes he will be the one lifting the trophy at the All England Club come the final Sunday, but believes the Scot has all the skills to win the tournament - or one of the other three grand slams - at some point in the near future.

"I think he's way good enough to win a grand slam. To me it's just a matter of time," Federer said. "He'll definitely have, what, another eight years, 10 years of chances to win Wimbledon. It would be nice if he won it this year for him and the British fans."

Federer believes that it is the media putting most of the pressure on Murray to finally break through and win at SW19.

"It would be great if he were to win the tournament. I think that's the mindset of many people, and himself as well," Federer said. "So I don't think people are getting too ahead of themselves. I think it's more the media expecting him to finally win a grand slam.

"[Ivan] Lendl lost many grand slam finals before he won his first."

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