Finaliste de l'Open d'Australie en 2010, 2011, 2013, 2015 et 2016, Andy Murray a conscience qu'il est désormais bien loin de ce niveau. 44e mondial, le vainqueur de trois tournois du Grand Chelem a dû revoir ses ambitions à la baisse. Pas si simple lorsque l'on est un champion de ce calibre et surtout avec le caractère du Britannique. L'Ecossais, âgé de 36 ans, reste tout de même toujours aussi passionné et déterminé sur un court et rêve de grandes victoires sur un grand court. Pourquoi pas à l'Open d'Australie ? Celui qui commencera contre Tomas Etcheverry, et qui pourrait défier Gaël Monfils au deuxième tour, a parlé de ce changement d'état d'esprit lors du media day.
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00:00 I don't think the Sunday start will change the late finishers.
00:05 I think they're on centre court, they're having two matches in the day, two matches in the evening.
00:10 I think that will reduce the possibility for late finishers on rod laver.
00:19 Yeah, because you're not going to have, or it's unlikely that you're going to have the issues with the day session running into the night
00:26 and then having that gap where they have to clear out the stadium and get the new, the night session fans in.
00:33 So I think that that will help late finishers on centre court.
00:39 But my understanding is that on the other show courts that that's not changing.
00:45 So there is still the possibility for that to happen.
00:49 But maybe there'll be a potentially, I don't know, more flexibility with moving courts if it looks like it's overrunning or something.
00:58 I'm not sure. But I don't think the Sunday start will change late finishers, no.
01:05 Maybe there is a bit of movement now to address this, where maybe before there's been talk, but not really any action.
01:14 Well, yeah, I mean, I've read that. Yeah. And I don't know if that's happening at the slams, but definitely at the other events.
01:26 Yeah, which is which is really good because, yeah, we've obviously, well, I've spoken about it,
01:31 but I've heard lots of players and the media obviously discussing it for for a long time.
01:37 And it just makes sense. It's a very obvious thing that needs to needs to change.
01:45 I think I haven't heard anyone really disagree with with that.
01:51 So, yeah, it's positive that there's going to be some changes made and it'll be good for I think for everyone.
01:58 You know, I primarily would think about it from a player's perspective and, yeah,
02:04 will definitely help, you know, with recovery for like following day's matches and things like that.
02:08 But I certainly think for like fans and the tournament just probably looks a wee bit more professional if you're not finishing at three, four in the morning.
02:19 The two Echeveri matches he played last year, but I seem to remember he makes it quite physical.
02:23 Is that what you're expecting? I made most of my matches quite physical last year.
02:32 I don't know if that was necessarily him.
02:35 But yeah, I mean, he yeah, he has a game that yeah, can can make the matches that way as well.
02:43 You know, we played in Basel was I don't know if it was over three hours, but it felt like it was.
02:49 And in Indian Wells, there was another another long one.
02:52 But again, I know that, you know, last year when, you know, wasn't serving well,
02:59 you end up getting into lots more, you know, long, long rallies and everything.
03:03 And because of the way that I return and, you know, put quite a lot of returns back in play, you know,
03:09 you can end up getting into lots of long, lots of long points.
03:13 And when that's the case, yeah, matches, matches will go on.
03:19 But yeah, hopefully, hopefully that's not the case in a couple of days.