Andy Murray

JonH comes home · Tennis legend

Andy Murray

flamingowings · All-time great

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Crispy · Intermediate Club Player

Andy given AO wildcard

Coup Droit · Tennis legend

Andy's made a new fan:

Nigel Farage
@Nigel_Farage
· 4h
Dear Andy, you clearly don't understand politics or the Brexit campaign but are filled with prejudice.

Concentrate on the tennis and, a word of advice, crack a smile every now and again. Smiling face with open mouth twitter.com/andy_murray/st

Andy had the 'gall' to suggest that maybe Nigel had slightly wonky standards, for loving up to the Djokovics:

"Please record the awkward moment when you tell them youve spent most of your career campaigning to have people from Eastern Europe deported."

Barefoot · Lower Club Player

Farage needs some better comebacks!

Bob in Spain · Tennis legend

This may well be taken down by the time you look at it, but if not, see if you can spot the error. biggrin biggrin

https://twitter.com/the_LTA/status/1480985361509662727

Bob in Spain · Tennis legend

Bob in Spain wrote:
This may well be taken down by the time you look at it, but if not, see if you can spot the error.

https://twitter.com/the_LTA/status/1480985361509662727

As suspected, that tweet has been taken down. Good job that someone we know saved it for posterity.

https://twitter.com/GBtennis/status/1480988240597430274

Jan · Hall of fame

Thanks!!!!!

Coup Droit · Tennis legend

Hilarious ....

steven · Tennis legend

It's certainly the best of their regular caption competitions so far (the unintentional ones are always the best!)

JonH comes home · Tennis legend

ATP website confirms that Andy plans to play Doha and Dubai , presumably both will still be wild card entries

"Murray will now return home to the U.K. to prepare for his next scheduled tournaments in Doha and Dubai."

JonH comes home · Tennis legend

This stat below ranks players by the number of wins they have over top 10 opponents in slams (courtesy of Ben Rothenberg on Twitter). Andy sitting in equal 10th place.

Assorted men's greats by top-10 Slam wins:

Federer - 64
Djokovic - 61
Nadal - 50
Lendl - 32
Sampras - 30
Agassi - 25
McEnroe - 25
Wilander - 22
Becker - 22
Wawrinka - 21
Murray - 21
Borg - 20
Edberg - 20
Courier - 16
Connors - 14
Safin - 13
Ferrero - 13
Tsonga - 13
del Potro - 12
Berdych - 11
Hewitt - 10
Kuerten - 8
Ivanisevic - 8
Chang - 8

-- Edited by JonH comes home on Friday 28th of January 2022 10:13:35 AM

GAMEOVER · Pro player

Reported by Mike Dickson in the Daily Mail 1st February that Andy has split from his coach Jan De Witt after a short trial period.

JonH comes home · Tennis legend

My instinct is Andy needs someone who has experience in that back end of their career as an older player, perhaps managing their physical side. A player who has been there and done it as opposed to just a coach. I also think it is about respect - Andy , I though, did ok on the whole in Oz, reaching a final, but clearly it is all about the slams for him over the next/final year or two of his career (my instinct is end next year if he stays healthy).

Not sure who is out there with that type of profile, maybe his ideal coach would be to ask Fed to coach him for a while!!

Seriously, a Lendl again, or an Agassi, those types of guys would fit the bill. Won't happen of course

indiana · Tennis legend

Andy's instinctively too defensive ( to win the biggest prizes ) from very early days when such was his defence and adaptability that he could frustrate the very best, notably Fed.

But at Slams in particular he can get into long drawn out wars that way and that is even more of an issue at this stage of his career.

Lendl was the one man that got Andy to be consistently fairly aggressive and trade in a pragmatic way, if often not so interesting. Generally he was still too good, he won matches easier and he won Slams.

Don't think he'll be winning Slams again but I would prefer he didn't spend much of the remaining part of his career on the back foot to much lesser players.