Andy Murray goals sly dig at British tennis critics after win in Nottingham
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ndy Murray accomplished a clear sweep of British victories on Nottingham‘s Centre Court to make it via to the semi-finals of the Rothesay Open.
After Jodie Burrage, Katie Boulter and Heather Watson all reached the final 4 of the ladies’s occasion, Murray defeated Dominic Stricker 7-6 (2) 7-5 for his eighth-successive victory.
The 36-year-old is bidding to win a second-successive title on the second-tier Challenger Tour having triumphed in Surbiton final week and is but to drop a set in Nottingham.
He stated of the house success in his on-court interview: “Obviously this week’s been great. A couple of weeks ago we were hearing British tennis wasn’t doing well. Things change a lot on a week-to-week basis.
“You just want all of the players to reach their potential, make sure everyone’s working hard. Not everyone is going to win Wimbledon and grand slams but you just want to make sure everyone is making the most of this amazing opportunity to play tennis for a living.
“This week has obviously been brilliant, the women have done extremely well and hopefully that continues through the year. It should be a fun weekend for the British tennis fans.”
He didn’t have issues all his personal manner towards 20-year-old Swiss Stricker, with neither man in a position to create a break level within the opening set.
Murray performed a high quality tie-break to maneuver in entrance, clenching his fist as he sat down in his chair, nevertheless it was Stricker who made the primary transfer within the second set.
The eighth seed took his third likelihood to interrupt for 3-1 just for Murray to reply right away and Stricker then took a medical time-out for therapy to his again.
With the clock ticking previous 8pm, Murray pushed for an additional break and eventually received it, a Stricker backhand dropping vast to offer his opponent the prospect to serve for the match – and the Scot made no mistake.
Murray, who subsequent faces Portugal’s Nuno Borges, feels he’s heading firmly in the fitting path, saying: “It was a very, actually tight match right now towards among the finest younger gamers on the earth.
“He has a really good game, huge shots from the back of the court but also really nice touch up at the net.
“I’m really glad to get through that one because it was really close. That’s the best I’ve played across the last two weeks in terms of how I hit the ball and everything. It was really positive.”