Andy not playing doubles at Wimbledon..........also coach should be appointed prior to Wimbledon.
Murray plays down Wimbledon hopes
The world number 45 is currently struggling with his formOut-of-form Andy Murray says he would be delighted to win just two matches at this year's Wimbledon.
The 19-year-old Scot has won only three of his last 12 matches and has failed to reach the second round at both the Australian and French Opens this year.
"Getting through the first round of any grand slam is a good achievement at my age," said Murray.
"If I won a couple of matches that would be great; if I won three, I'd be even happier."
Murray, who has claimed just two wins since dispensing with coach Mark Petchey in April, reached the third round at Wimbledon last year.
In February he defeated Andy Roddick and Lleyton Hewitt to claim his first ATP Tour title at the SAP Open in San Jose.
But in the 10 events since, he has won only five matches.
At the French Open, Murray lost to Gael Monfils after being hampered by a lower back problem and this week he crashed out of the Stella Artois Championships in the first round after a bad-tempered loss to Janko Tipsarevic.
He has already stated that he hopes to appoint a new coach in time for Wimbledon, which starts on 26 June.
Murray also said he would not play doubles at Wimbledon this year because it would put too many demands on him.
"At Wimbledon, doubles is best-of-five sets unlike all the other grand slams, so if you've just played a four-and-a-half hour singles match, you don't really want to go and play doubles afterwards," he said.
Good news about the coach and while I don't necesarily agree with not playing doubles it does show a degree a thought that seems to have been missing to date.
Not playing best of five sets doubles is maybe sensible at the moment. I love to see young players play as much doubles as possible, but if there are doubts over his body being up for it (and there are major doubts) then it would be daft to commit to playing them at the moment. Of course, if he goes out early in the singles then I guess he might still choose to play doubles to get matches in?
Re the coach: I wouldn't be too sure about Andy's coach being appointed by Wimbledon. It would be really great as having a coach would help his preparation enormously for matches and the coach would also be able to deflect some of the attention and pressure off Andy as Petchey did last summer. However, I've read other newspaper articles this week which have quoted Andy as saying that he hopes to have a coach in place by the hard court masters series events of Toronto and Cincinatti and only a short while ago there were several newspapers which seemed quite definate that Andy's coach would be in place by the French Open and the start of Queens. I think the fact is that Andy hasn't decided on anyone yet, and no one actually knows the date when his coach will be announced.
The BBC often do interviews and make statements on deductions done from the player's comments, not from what the player has actually said word-for-word.
Re doubles: I think it's probably a good idea, it's best that he concentrates on the singles. He doesn't want to have to let a doubles partner down by having to withdraw due to being too tired from a singles match earlier in the day. Also, all Andy's previous partners are either taken up already or also prefer to concentrate just on singles.
