Jamie Murray slams state of British tennis after ‘unacceptable’ French Open

Jamie Murray has claimed British tennis has suffered from “huge underachievement forever” as he claimed it’s “unacceptable” to rejoice having solely three singles gamers on the French Open.

Cam Norrie was the one Brit to win a singles match in Paris but he was down and out within the third spherical. With Emma Raducanu recovering from surgical procedure there have been no British girls within the singles at a Grand Slam because the 2009 US Open – there are none within the high 100 – whereas ten gamers failed to return by means of qualifying.

Wimbledon gave the Lawn Tennis Association practically £50m final yr from earnings from The Championships. But Jamie, who has gained seven Grand Slam doubles titles, mentioned: “I would say it is a huge underachievement forever because we get a hell of a lot of support every year from Wimbledon and getting that nice fat cheque. It’s about numbers at this level and we have just never had that forever. It is decades or more of what I would call underperformance.

“We have Andy at the top for a long time. That will come to an end soon. Dan Evans and Cam Norrie are obviously well established on the Tour and Jack Draper is coming up. On the girls’ side, it’s not like we have always had people in the top 10 or 20 or 30.

That’s just the situation. I just think that there is no reason why we shouldn’t be having 10 or 15 players, men and women, in the main draw and qualifying of this tournament. We celebrate when we have two or three players, which is unacceptable. It is not good enough for us as a Grand Slam nation to be turning up at these events and having such a small number of players competing. With the funding that some of the players have at their disposal, we should be doing better.

British No.2 Evans claimed Raducanu had “papered over the cracks” together with her shock New York triumph. “Evo is probably right,” Murray added. Emma had this whirlwind two weeks out of nowhere however that’s not the truth of the place we’re at. Something wants to vary.”

Norrie admitted will probably be “back to the drawing board” at Wimbledon subsequent month regardless of reaching the semi-finals final yr.