Andy Murray’s thoughts ahead of Wimbledon
Speaking to the press this week, Andy Murray outlined his thoughts ahead of Wimbledon;
"I'm not looking anywhere past the first match. It's not worth it. It's happened to me before when I was younger and you lose if you're thinking about playing against Nadal in the semi-finals or whoever it is in the quarter-finals. There's tough matches everywhere, as you would have seen last year. Rafa had a couple of long matches that he nearly lost, Roger (Federer) nearly lost in the first round against someone that you would have never expected him to lose to."
There is concern in the Murray camp regarding his right ankle injury, although the Scotsman does not seem unduly troubled, saying "It feels good. I've had no problems with it in practice the last few days. I've been doing all the training that I wanted to do. I think it's been quite tough for everyone because it's just been tough conditions. But I think I've got good enough practice in. I always look forward to the start of the tournament. For me, it's quite a long build-up, the five or six days beforehand. I'm ready to go now."
Continuing of things generally, Murray said: "This year Djokovic has definitely improved a lot. But I felt like when I played against him in Rome I was very close to winning it. I served for the match, so I had my chance there. Obviously the French Open was a good tournament for me, and also Queen's. So the last few months have definitely been closer. But to get ahead of him in the rankings, I can't have two or three months like I did after the Australian Open where I didn't win a match and wasn't playing well at all. So I need to keep the consistency I've had the last few months up for the whole year."
Can Murray win the tournament? Sure he can. Will he? Hmmm, that remains to be seen.