Murray
At this year's ATP Miami Masters, former world number one Murray lost to Medvedev in the second round of men's singles, and since this year's Australian Open, the sixth consecutive tournament has stopped in the second round, so the rhythm of winning one game and losing one game obviously cannot make Murray satisfied with his performance.
"I've played quite a few tournaments in the last five or six months, but I'm not good enough to beat the top players right now. Like today against Medvedev, I played well on some points, but the two most crucial places I lost this game were the serve and the serve. In a ranking like my current position, it's normal to meet top players in the first few rounds of the tournament, which makes it difficult for me to achieve good results, so I have to have the ability to beat them. ”
Ahead of the Indian Wells Masters, Murray announced that he was once again working with former coach Rendell to return to the top. Rendell has coached Murray twice before, when he invited the star to join the team to fulfill his Grand Slam dream, and the Briton had lost several times in the final before winning his first Grand Slam. After undergoing hip replacement surgery, Murray's level of competition is obviously not as good as his peak, this decision to cooperate with Lendl again, what is Murray's purpose?
"I chose to work with him again, I think, to make myself more aware of how to train and win games. I think the way I've trained over the past 18 months may be wrong, and that such mistakes are hard to change in a matter of weeks. We've been training for a few days before the Miami Masters and I think I've made some progress and I do think it's better here than I did at Indian Wells, but I have a lot more work to do because, like I said, it takes time to correct what I've done wrong on the training ground during this time. ”
Murray has decided to skip the next clay season and prepare directly for the following grass season, and talking about the reasons behind this decision, Murray said: "I hope to make good adjustments on the training ground in the next period of time, hoping to improve to a level that matches the top players. I haven't had a very good feel on clay for the past two years, and I've had a higher probability of getting a good result in the grass season. For the next three or four weeks I'll be training on hard ground here in Miami, and then I'll go home and train on grass, and for about two weeks to two and a half weeks, I'll probably play the Serbeton Grass Challenge, and then I'll play a lot of games in the grass season. ”
Talking about the evolution of tennis style over the past few years, Murray said: "In the past five or six years, I have seen more and more tall and strong players, but they still run fast and move very well, and I think in the past, players of height like Daniel (Medvedev) will not have a good ability to move, such as Zverev, who is tall and has a good ability to move. ”
Medvedev
Recently, Medvedev became the only non-Big Four player to climb to the top of the world since Roddick in 2004, and Murray bluntly said that Medvedev has a unique style of play: "Compared with most of the players I have played, he has a completely different style, especially under the current general trend of tennis evolution (he seems to be particularly different), and now many players have a very offensive forehand, and he (Medvedev) will choose to hit the ball with his backhand when he is in the center of the court. It's different from most people, his shots are very flat, and most players hit the ball with a strong upward spin, plus a lot of head speed. ”
'I think I can do it on par with him in the rounds, maybe some people don't think much of it from me, but for me, the obvious gap between me and him now is the serve and the serve, he can have a high success rate in that position, which is one of his weapons, although he is very late in the position, but the effect he has achieved is very successful."
(Compilation/Faye Wong, Photo/Visual China)