Andy Murray est encore à Roland-Garros... Pour jouer le double aux côtés de Dan Evans. Mais face aux Sud-Américains Sebastian Baez et Thiago Seyboth Wild, les deux Britanniques, qui pourraient éventuellement disputer les Jeux olympiques ensemble (bien que Joe Salisbury 5e, Neal Skupski, 10e et Jamie Murray, 27e sont aussi dans la course), se sont inclinés après deux tie-breaks perdus : 7-6(6), 7-6(3). Ils se sont tout de même arrêtés en conférence de presse après leur match, évoquant notamment leur possible participation ensemble à Wimbledon.
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00:00What were your thoughts on the match?
00:08It looked like pretty tough conditions out there
00:10and maybe a bit of doubt at times over whether you were going to come off for the rain in the second set?
00:15Yes, it was obviously a difficult match.
00:20I thought they played pretty well I think.
00:23I probably didn't have my best match,
00:27but we fought pretty hard and all credit to them.
00:32They got a bit of fortune as well and they played pretty well I must say.
00:44What did you both take out of it as an experience ahead of perhaps coming back here later in the summer?
00:51Well, who knows what's going to happen with that.
00:55I guess for both of us it was kind of an opportunity to put our names in the frame to play the Olympics.
01:07That's why it was a pretty strong doubles event this year,
01:13a lot of singles guys playing ahead of the Olympics.
01:17I think me and Dan obviously were hoping to have a good run here and it wasn't to be.
01:26I don't know if we'll get the opportunity.
01:29There's guys obviously ahead of us in the rankings and we've got good doubles players in the UK.
01:36Let's see what happens, but it was an opportunity to have a good run and it didn't happen.
01:48This is more for Dan because I know it relates to you, but maybe Andy.
01:52Red Plus, I know you've hit on Red Plus courts.
01:56There's one going at the LCA next week or the week after.
02:00I just wondered if you could tell me a bit about what it's like, whether it's useful, how like real clay it is.
02:06Andy, I don't know if you've had any experience with them, maybe not.
02:09Yeah, I mean I practised on it a few times in the previous years.
02:15I'm probably not best qualified to say if it was good or not, but I thought it was pretty good.
02:20I was obviously with Sebastian at that time and I practised with him on it
02:25and he actually didn't know that that was the surface until after.
02:33It was a pretty cold, wet day, as it tends to be this time of year in England.
02:40It was pretty good, I thought it was pretty good.
02:44The guy who looks after it does a great job, yeah.
02:47It's been a lot of hanging around over the last few days because of the rain.
02:51I'm just wondering how you found that and whether you regret being here for those few days in a way.
02:57No, I don't regret it.
02:59It's been frustrating for everyone and obviously when you lose,
03:05if you could have said, okay, you're going to lose in the first round four days ago,
03:11you would regret sticking around.
03:13But I felt like we had a good chance to do well
03:16and we agreed that if we were going to play, we would play to try and win the tournament.
03:24So no, I don't regret playing at all.
03:32I've been struggling a little bit with my back the last couple of weeks
03:35so I probably needed a few lighter days anyway.
03:40Now I get a chance to go home and start prepping on the grass
03:44and hopefully have a few good tournaments there.
03:48Are you going to play doubles at Wimbledon?
03:50Individually with other partners?
03:53I've not thought about Wimbledon.
04:00I may do, yeah.
04:02I'm not 100% sure yet.
04:05My brother doesn't have a partner for Wimbledon currently.
04:09We've spoken a little bit about it.
04:12So I may do that, but I'm not 100% sure yet.
04:17And when would you make that decision?
04:19In the days before Wimbledon?
04:21No, not ahead of time.
04:22I mean, obviously, Jamie could also get a good partner as well.
04:29You've got your story now, come on.
04:31That's got to be the headline.
04:34So yeah, we'll see what happens.
04:36But yeah, I mean, we'll probably decide in the next few days probably.
04:42Andy, your brother said he was under the impression
04:44that if you did lose today, you'd probably be happy to go home
04:46and start prepping on the grass.
04:48Is that true?
04:49And are you both kind of planning to adjust your schedules
04:51now you've lost a year?
04:54No.
04:55I mean, obviously, if we did well here,
04:59then that might affect what I would have done
05:04at the beginning of the grass season.
05:06But obviously, we didn't.
05:07So now we'll just come up with a different plan
05:12for what the next few weeks look like.
05:15But yeah, I mean, I don't know.
05:17I don't know.
05:18We'll just come up with a different plan
05:20for what the next few weeks look like.
05:23You know, Evo obviously can speak for himself.
05:26But yeah, for me, yeah.
05:29I mean, we had a couple of plans in place
05:32that did well how the grass season would look.
05:34And if things didn't go well in the doubles,
05:37what I would do, yeah.
05:41Today is the first day of Alexander Zverev's trial
05:44for allegedly physically abusing his ex-girlfriend.
05:47I'm just curious to know, in other sports,
05:50it may not happen where a player is competing
05:52at the same time that they're in court.
05:55They may be on administrative leave
05:57or things like that.
05:58I'm curious if you feel it's right
06:02that Zverev is competing at the same time
06:05that this court case is going on or not.
06:09I mean, I got asked about that kind of a few years ago
06:13on the ATP's kind of policy around those sorts of
06:16situations and, yeah, clearly it's a difficult one.
06:24The players shouldn't be the ones
06:26that are coming in here making comment on it.
06:28It's the ATP who should make the decision
06:30and make the policy
06:34for what that would look like.
06:38And I don't think they did a particularly good job
06:41over the last few years with
06:44I don't know what the word is,
06:47but in terms of, you know,
06:49in these situations when you might ask me about that
06:52in press, it's not for us to come up with
06:55what those policies are.
06:56It's for the governing body to make that decision.
07:00And, yeah, clearly it's a very difficult subject,
07:05but it's for you guys to obviously report on that
07:08and we'll see what happens with the trial.
07:12And then I guess a decision will be made after that.