Murray: No must overreact after first-round Queen’s defeat
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ndy Murray has no intention of hitting the panic button after a first-round loss at Queen’s derailed his ambition to be seeded for Wimbledon.
The world No38 wanted two wins in his ultimate warm-up occasion for SW19 however was comfortably crushed 6-3 6-1 by No7 seed Alex de Minaur.
Despite the dent to his Wimbledon ambitions, Murray stated: “After today… it’s easy to overreact. I lost to a good player and it was obviously very comfortable.
“But I only lost one set in Surbiton, was holding serve very comfortably, was moving well, hitting the ball good. There are a lot of positive signs there.
“The practices I had before those tournaments too with some good players… I was doing just fine. So, I’m comfortable with that. I know my level is there to compete with the top players. I just need to take a few days and get a good week, ten days’ work in, and sure I’ll be playing well on the first Monday of Wimbledon.”
Murray returns to Queen’s on Wednesday to group up with Cameron Norrie within the males’s doubles however stated he had no intention of enjoying one other event – be that Eastbourne or Hurlingham – forward of Wimbledon.
The two weeks previous to Queen’s had been vastly optimistic with back-to-back title wins in Surbiton and Nottingham, albeit at challenger stage.
On the place his recreation is at present, he stated: “I think the last few weeks there has been lots of positive things. I served very well across the two weeks. There are definitely some things I can do better but, at the same time, I have done lots of good things over the last couple of weeks as well. I want to keep going in that direction.”
Unseeded, Murray now finds himself on the mercy of the Wimbledon draw subsequent week, realizing he may very well be pulled out to face an enormous title in his opening-round match.
Of that prospect, he stated: “Some of the seeded players are maybe not that comfortable on the grass, so there’s some draws that are better than others. There are also guys that are not seeded but love the grass courts and it’s their favourite surface.”