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"I didn't play with the confidence I usually have. It was good learning experience, and I feel coming out of it I probably played (some) of my best hockey here at the end. So, I'm really exciting bring that into next year, for sure."
Kuemper, 32, was 37-12-4 with five shutouts, a .921 save percentage and a 2.54 goals-against average in 57 starts during the 2021-22 regular season. In the playoffs, he was 10-4 with a .902 save percentage and 2.57 GAA.
The Blue Jays hired Montoyo before the 2019 season, and he compiled a 236-236 record with just one playoff appearance -- a 2-0 loss in the best-of-three wild-card series against the Rays in the pandemic-shortened 2020 season.
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'I'm not closing the door to anyone and I've listened to all the offers, but if some MLS teams don't qualify for the playoffs, they end their season in the first week of October, and that's not useful for me because I would stop for a month ahead of the World Cup, which wouldn't be good for me.'
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But there will be Australian interest in the quarters too after James Duckworth, the No.8 seed, battled past Frenchman Quentin Halys 7-5 3-6 6-2 in a tough two-hour duel in one of Wednesday's early matches.
Yet it wasn't completely plain sailing for the 35-year-old Murray, who appeared to pick up an injury in the second set and was limping heavily by the end of the match, with third seed Alexander Bublik awaiting him in the quarter-finals.
And 24 hours later, #CricketBoxLeagueInFreeFire he looked as if his remarkable week might even see the world No.202 topple former world No.1 Murray too in the grasscourt tournament as he took the opening set and led 2-0 in the second.
Purcell flew straight from Wimbledon, where he and Matt Ebden became the first Aussie pair to win the men's doubles for 22 years, to Newport, Rhode Island, where, thanks to a wildcard entry, he defeated French leftie Adrian Mannarino in straight sets at the Hall of Fame Open on Tuesday.
The Sydneysider will next face either his compatriot Jason Kubler, the Brisbane battler who's fresh from his memorable career-best run through the qualifiers to the last-16 at Wimbledon, or Canadian top seed Felix Auger-Aliassime, #FreeFireDiamantes who were meeting later on Wednesday.
The injury-bedevilled Duckworth, who'd had his 10th bout of surgery in January - this time to his hip - is showing signs of recovering some of the form that took him to a career-high 46 at the start of the year.