By Chris Oddo | @TheFanChild | Saturday March 26, 2022
It’s on to the clay for Andy Murray, after a second-round loss to Daniil Medvedev on the Miami Open. The three-time main champion says he plans to stay round Florida to proceed practising with coach Ivan Lendl, earlier than heading over to Europe to play a protracted grass-court season.
“I’ll practice the following three or 4 weeks right here on the exhausting courts after which go residence and begin practising on the grass in all probability two, two-and-a-half weeks earlier than – there’s a challenger in Surbiton, which I could play, after which hopefully be busy after that, attempt to get a number of tournaments in by means of the summer season.”
Murray’s first mission when he hits the follow courtroom is to start out practising the fitting manner. He instructed reporters on Saturday that he wants extra readability in his recreation, and he plans to make it the main target of his work with Lendl.
“I do not really feel I’ve been practising the fitting issues in all probability for 18 months or so,” Murray instructed reporters on Saturday in Miami. “It is troublesome to form of undo that, you recognize, within the house of some weeks clearly. Therefore one of many the explanation why I am taking an enormous interval of coaching to attempt to change a few of these issues and hopefully get my recreation into a spot the place it is extra aggressive towards the highest gamers once more.”
Murray on what Lendl will convey: “I feel in all probability some readability over the fitting method to play and the fitting method to follow. I do not really feel I’ve been practising the fitting issues in all probability for 18 months or so.”
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It has been a promising begin to 2022 for Murray, even when issues haven’t at all times gone his manner. In early February he cracked the top-100 for the primary time since 2018, after a stable begin to the season that noticed him attain the ultimate at Sydney, his first ATP last since 2019.
Murray says he hopes to return to a extra aggressive mindset, including that he felt the distinction even after just a few days of follow with Lendl.
“Prior to now, I feel the way in which that I’ve performed and I assume the way in which that I’ve practiced as effectively has allowed me to play slightly bit extra offensive at occasions and slightly bit extra tempo on my ball,” he mentioned. “However there are some technical issues that form of allowed me to do this, and I’ve been practising the other of that for a interval.
So can we are able to anticipate a extra proactive model of Murray within the months to return?
“That is type of clearly what I am hoping,” he mentioned. “We did just a few days of follow earlier than coming right here. A number of the issues that we labored on, regardless that it was just some days, I feel I made some enhancements. I do really feel like I performed higher right here than I did at Indian Wells.
“However yeah, it may take a number of work, as a result of like I mentioned, it has been fairly some time that I’ve possibly not been doing the fitting issues on the follow courtroom, and it takes time to possibly change a few of these habits.”
