By Chris Oddo | @TheFanChild | Saturday July 1, 2023
Andy Murray is sort of a child on Christmas Eve yearly presently. That’s as a result of Wimbledon is the occasion he’s most obsessed with and he can’t wait to place his greatest foot ahead.
Although 36, and never the participant he was in his prime, the 2013 and 2016 Wimbledon champion has carried out loads of soldiering in 2023, and he is available in assured to his fifteenth primary draw appearances at SW19.
“It is all the time been an important match for me within the yr,” Murray advised the press throughout his pre-tournament media convention on Saturday. “No matter how I used to be feeling coming in, I might all the time do my greatest to be prepared for this one, even when there was some bodily points, niggles, what have you ever. I would all the time give my greatest.”
Murray, who owns extra grass court docket victories than some other participant within the draw (117-27), has gained two challenger titles on grass within the lead as much as Wimbledon. He might not be the participant he was in 2016, when he completed the season as No.1, however he likes his probabilities on the grass towards anybody on the planet.
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He’ll method the match with a way of urgency. He has no plans to retire any time quickly however he is aware of that that day is coming…
“Clearly as you get in direction of the latter stage of your profession, you need to take advantage of these alternatives as a result of you do not know what number of extra instances they will be right here,” he stated. “I need to go on the market and carry out at a stage that I am pleased with.
“I do really feel like I am in a extremely, actually good place to try this. I’ve the expertise at this match. There’s just one participant within the draw that has extra expertise of taking part in right here than me, which is Novak… I want to make use of that to my benefit and use my expertise to my benefit and take confidence from that.
“I do consider I am top-of-the-line grass court docket gamers on the planet, and I am bodily feeling actually good. I ready nicely, so there isn’t any motive why I can not have a superb match.”
Murray will face compatriot Ryan Peniston within the first spherical, and if he’s profitable he might face No.5 seeded Stefanos Tsitsipas within the second spherical.
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