Murray instructed the right way to attain Wimbledon purpose as even Djokovic ‘will not need to play him’
Andy Murray will get his Wimbledon marketing campaign underway towards fellow Brit Ryan Peniston on Tuesday. The two-time champion has made it no secret that he desires to succeed in the second week after failing in his quest to be one of many high 32 seeds on the All England Club. Despite getting the safety of a seeding, Andrew Castle has claimed that even the likes of Novak Djokovic and Carlos Alcaraz wouldn’t need to play Murray as he handed him some recommendation.
Murray is coming into Wimbledon in his finest type since lengthy earlier than present process his hip resurfacing surgical procedure. The world No 40 gained back-to-back Challenger titles on the grass in Surbiton and Nottingham and is now hoping to hold that confidence into SW19.
But the previous world No 1 faces a troublesome draw as he will get the winner of a blockbuster conflict between Stefanos Tsitsipas and Dominic Thiem within the second spherical – if he can get previous countryman Peniston. Ben Shelton, Cameron Norrie and Sebastian Korda additionally loom within the rounds forward so it will likely be no straightforward process for Murray to succeed in his purpose of the second week.
But former pro-turned-pundit Castle believes that nobody will need to play Murray at Wimbledon given his grass-court prowess. Speaking to Express Sport on behalf of Grosvenor Sport he stated: “You don’t dip back down to play the Challenger tournaments unless you’re serious about what you’re trying to achieve. So, then we ask the question, what is that?
“That is second week of Grand Slams, that’s involved in the big matches. That’s getting the crowd going and having a fight with someone. Cause that’s what he is, you know he remains that kind of street tennis player. He gives his opponent nothing.”
The broadcaster knew that Murray was critical given all he had already achieved in his profession. He added: “You know he just wants to continue to enjoy the scrap and he does, otherwise he wouldn’t still be doing it because you know it’s not like money drives a man like that after all his successes and here we are ten years on from his first Wimbledon.
“11 years on from the US Open, eight years on from the Davis Cup victory, the Olympic gold in 2012. You know when you’ve done that much and you’ve just missed out on a seeding at Wimbledon, which is a shame, but what he wants is to get through the first two rounds, three rounds, maybe four rounds, make the quarter-final and then walk out on Centre Court in the sunshine and just give it a shot against one of the big boys.
“Nobody wants to play Andy Murray at Wimbledon. That’s as simple as that. I don’t care who it is, Novak, Carlos, whatever, you know, I can think of only eight or nine people that I would bet, would be, you know, likely to beat Murray at Wimbledon if you get into that situation.”
But he stated there was one factor Murray needed to attempt to do as a way to go far at Wimbledon – keep away from lengthy matches. And it will likely be a tough process for the Brit, who was embroiled in a number of five-set epics on the Australian Open earlier this yr.
“So if you can avoid the massive sort of, you know, scarring 5 setters early on. I can still see him giving us a couple of box office evenings at Wimbledon,” Castle smiled.