For the Love of Tennis, Murray Focuses on His Own Journey

By Chris Oddo | @TheFanChild | Wednesday June 14, 2023

Contemporary off a challenger title on the grass in Surbition by which he dropped only one set in 5 matches, Andy Murray is selecting up steam on the grass, and hoping to make a mark at Wimbledon.

The 36-year-old Scot, ranked 44 this week, didn’t have that highest profile title on tour final week. That honor goes to Novak Djokovic, who claimed his twenty third main title on Sunday in Paris to change into the all-time Grand Slam males’s singles title chief. Nonetheless, Murray is loving life on tour and glad that he can function an inspiration to others.

“I might like to be competing for Grand Slams and be in that place,” Murray advised the ATP. “I’m additionally conscious that what [Novak has] completed is unimaginable and what he’s nonetheless doing at his age is sensible – however we have now fully completely different journeys, what occurred with my hip whereas I used to be on the peak of my profession was actually unlucky.”

Murray, who reached the third spherical on the Australian Open in dramatic trend earlier this season, says that he isn’t making an attempt to dwell as much as any expectations however his personal today. He’s taking part in for the love of the game, and it’s stunning to look at.

“You’ll be able to’t all the time be evaluating your self to different folks when they’re extra profitable than you,” he mentioned. “I’ve in all probability realized that extra as I’ve gotten older. After I was in my mid-twenties, a whole lot of the questions would get requested like, ‘When are you going to do that? These guys round you’re all the time profitable.’

“And I all the time wished what that they had, however I feel as soon as I began to just accept that I shouldn’t be evaluating myself to different folks and simply focus by myself journey and work as exhausting as I probably can to attain the objectives I need to, that’s all you are able to do and I’m nonetheless doing that now.

“Whether or not I win one other Grand Slam or profitable Challengers is the height for me now, I’m okay with that as a result of I’m doing what I like to do.”

Murray is in motion on the Rothesay Open challenger this week, in Nottingham. The highest-seeded wild card will face Frances Hugo Grenier within the second spherical.