By Chris Oddo | @TheFanChild | Friday July 7, 2023
Expectations had been excessive, kind was good, and the British public was rallying behind two-time Wimbledon champion Andy Murray.
All of the elements had been in place for the 36-year-old to make a run for the ages, as he took the courtroom on Friday with a two units to 1 lead over Stefanos Tsitsipas.
Then all of it unraveled, with the gifted Greek taking maintain of half two of their riveting contest to e book a hard-fought victory.
Like Sisyphus, Andy Murray has rolled the rock up the hill, solely to have it roll again down. He has not reached the spherical of 16 at a serious since 2017.
“In the end this was a possibility for me,” Murray stated after his loss. “I had likelihood of getting a correct run for the primary time in a very long time at a slam. I did not take it.”
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“You by no means know what would have occurred”
By no means thoughts that the result may need been totally different if Wimbledon’s 11 PM curfew didn’t trigger the pair to cease their match with the Brit main two units to 1. That was the deal from the beginning, and each gamers knew it.
“You by no means know what would have occurred,” Murray stated, when requested. “The identical outcome may have occurred. We knew that we had been solely going to have the ability to play till 11:00. You are type of taking part in to a time. It was unlikely if there was any break up units or something that we had been going to complete yesterday. We knew the scenario going into the match. That is the way it was.”
The subsequent step is unclear
Murray was requested how assured he was in the truth that he would return to Wimbledon subsequent 12 months.
The 36-year-old clearly wants time to recover from the sting of one other heartbreaker, earlier than he plots out his subsequent steps.
“I do not know,” he stated. “Motivation is clearly an enormous factor. Persevering with having early losses in tournaments like this do not essentially assist with that. “It is just like I suppose final 12 months. I had an extended take into consideration issues, spoke to my household, determined to maintain on going. I do not plan to cease proper now. However, yeah, this one will take a short time to recover from. Hopefully discover the motivation once more to maintain coaching, preserve pushing, attempt to preserve getting higher.”
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