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

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

Fresh 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 grow to be the all-time Grand Slam males’s singles title chief. Nevertheless, Murray is loving life on tour and glad that he can function an inspiration to others.

“I would love to be competing for Grand Slams and be in that position,” Murray instructed the ATP. “I’m also aware that what [Novak has] done is incredible and what he’s still doing at his age is brilliant – but we have completely different journeys, what happened with my hip while I was at the peak of my career was really unfortunate.”

Murray, who reached the third spherical on the Australian Open in dramatic style earlier this season, says that he isn’t attempting to reside 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 can’t always be comparing yourself to other people when they are more successful than you,” he mentioned. “I’ve most likely discovered that extra as I’ve gotten older. When I used to be in my mid-twenties, a whole lot of the questions would get requested like, ‘When are you going to do this? These guys around you are always winning.’

“And I at all times wished what that they had, however I believe as soon as I began to just accept that I shouldn’t be evaluating myself to different individuals and simply focus alone journey and work as laborious as I probably can to attain the targets I wish to, that’s all you are able to do and I’m nonetheless doing that now.

“Whether 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 action at the Rothesay Open challenger this week, in Nottingham. The top-seeded wild card will face Frances Hugo Grenier in the second round.