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Mon 06 Jun 2007Murray injury surely scotches British Wimbledon hopesTENNIS:Maybe Andy Murray had one look at the skies and knew that when Wimbledon's Centre Court is denuded of all of its covering due to the renovation taking place, the weather gods become more malevolent than normal. A rain-soaked London welcomed those who hope to triumph on the grass at SW19 but Murray will not be one of them. The 20-year-old yesterday finally conceded that the wrist he injured on the clay in Hamburg last month had not recovered sufficiently for him to step into Tim Henman's shoes and become Britain's perennial hope.Murray will hear a lot of Fred Perry in the coming years, God help him. Perry was the last male Briton to win here back in 1936.