Murray regretted a round trip at the US Open.
The opening gave No. 3 seed Tsitsipas a surprised Andy Murray, who lost 2-3 in the first round of the MEN's Singles game of the US Open in the early morning of the 31st. It's the 34-year-old former world number one's first round trip since debuting at the U.S. Open in men's singles in 2005, and the perhaps regrettable reality is that, if it weren't for Tsitsipas, Andy Murray's 2021 U.S. Open journey might not have been so concerning.
Murray, who once won the MEN's Singles Championship of the US Open in 2012 and broke the shame of the "0 Grand Slam", fell into such a dilemma today, which is indeed regrettable, but look at Andy Murray's current world ranking of 112, and his achievements in only 3 victories in the men's singles field in the past 3 years, in addition to the lack of new "spokespersons" in the men's tennis world, how many people will care about Murray's achievements and even performance?
Of course, even for the Briton who did not abandon Murray, after Murray once led 2-1 but finally lost Tsitsipas 2-3, he could only sigh: The Scotsman never gave up!
Murray became a Grand Slam champion at the 2012 US Open.
Looking back on Murray's tennis career, never giving up is perhaps indeed the best evaluation given to him. From Wimbledon's debut in men's singles at Wimbledon in 2005 to the U.S. Open finally winning his first Grand Slam men's singles title trophy in 2012, Murray has gone through an extremely long period of questioning and losses far more than success.
During this long phase, Murray has been close to success many times, especially when he eliminated Valenka, Del Potro and Nadal in the men's singles field of the 2008 US Open, and stood on the stage of the Grand Slam men's singles final for the first time, everyone thought that the young Briton would break the embarrassing record of the British men's player in the Open era of "0 slam", Tim Henman worked hard for 16 years, but never reached the final of any Grand Slam men's singles event.
In the 2008 US Open men's singles final, Murray lost to Federer.
Unfortunately, this US Open does not belong to Murray, Federer won his 13th Grand Slam men's singles title trophy with a devastating 3-0, as for Murray, he can only continue to choose not to give up.
Lost to Federer in the 2010 Australian Open men's singles final, lost to Djokovic in the 2011 Australian Open men's singles final, lost to Federer in the 2012 Wimbledon final... The continuous failures made Murray gradually stop crying and become more resilient, which finally ushered in the "spring" of his own and belonging to the British men's tennis players.
From winning his first Grand Slam men's singles title at the US Open in 2012, although Murray still has many experiences of losing in the men's singles field of grand slam, Murray, who won the Wimbledon men's singles championship twice in 2013 and 2016, not only ended the long history of no British player winning the Wimbledon men's singles championship in 77 years, but also made Murray stand on the peak of his career and become a "lifelong Englishman" - losing, Scots, winning, British.
Murray won his last Grand Slam men's singles title trophy in 2016.
It is precisely because of the outstanding performance of this period that Murray once compared Federer, Nadal and Djokovic, making the men's tennis world have a "big four"! But compared to the "Big Three", Andy Murray's tennis career has declined too fast.
In the 2017 French Open, Murray, who became the top seed, was reversed by Wawrinka 2-3 in the semi-finals, which also became Murray's last good result in men's tennis. With Sam Querry blocked out of the men's singles quarter-finals at Wimbledon in 2017, Murray has never achieved anything worth talking about in the Grand Slam men's singles.
The continuous decline in performance has also made the "Big Four" become the "Big Three" again, and looking at Murray's record of only 29 wins and 56 losses in 85 games against the "Big Three", Murray's "Big Four" identity does lack some convincing.
Waving goodbye to Murray again, how much energy is left?
2019 Australian Open round trip (2-3 defeat to Agut), 2020 French Open round trip (0-3 defeat to Valenka), and then to this US Open round trip, Murray has not only participated in fewer Grand Slam competitions in the past three years, but also a little more times in a round.
Winning the Grand Slam men's singles title three times is, of course, an achievement that Andy Murray cannot be erased, but once became the "Big Four" but was kicked out of the ranks of the "Giants", which has also become a regret that Andy Murray can never let go. What is even more curious now is whether Andy Murray, who is already 34 years old, accepts the "out" ending, or continues to play "never give up"?