Murray eyes Wimbledon after Queen's success
Source: AFP |
June 18, 2013, Tuesday
|
Print Edition
Print Edition
ANDY Murray believes his third Queen's Club title will act as the perfect foundation to launch his latest bid to win Wimbledon.
Murray hardly had time to finish celebrating Sunday's 5-7, 7-5, 6-3 victory over Croatian fifth seed Marin Cilic in the final of the pre-Wimbledon warm-up event before thoughts turned to his prospects of ending Britain's 75-year wait for a male winner of the singles' title at the All England Club.
The 26-year-old arrived at Queen's last week dogged by fears over his fitness after a lower back injury forced him to miss the French Open.
But Murray coped well with the gruelling demands of a rain-affected schedule, enjoying two gritty come from behind wins over Jo-Wilfried Tsonga and Cilic and even surviving a nasty fall in the final which briefly left him clutching his groin in pain.
All in all it was an extremely satisfying seven days for the world number two with Wimbledon just a week away.
"I feel good. I'm a bit tired just now. It's been a long five days," Murray said.
"The last couple of days were tough matches against two top grass court players. Because of the way that the weather worked out, it's been mentally a quite draining week. I'm happy I managed to finish it with a win.
"So I'll go away and probably take a day off tomorrow and then start hitting on Tuesday and work on a couple of things in the build-up to Wimbledon.
"The most important thing in the next week or so is just to make sure I keep improving the strength of my back and make sure there's no setbacks.
"And then when Wimbledon comes round it's all about how you play.
"Anything can happen. You can lose a bit of confidence; you can gain confidence. You can pick up a niggle; you can feel 110 percent. You never know.
"But I'm in a good place and I just need to keep working hard the next week."
Murray hardly had time to finish celebrating Sunday's 5-7, 7-5, 6-3 victory over Croatian fifth seed Marin Cilic in the final of the pre-Wimbledon warm-up event before thoughts turned to his prospects of ending Britain's 75-year wait for a male winner of the singles' title at the All England Club.
The 26-year-old arrived at Queen's last week dogged by fears over his fitness after a lower back injury forced him to miss the French Open.
But Murray coped well with the gruelling demands of a rain-affected schedule, enjoying two gritty come from behind wins over Jo-Wilfried Tsonga and Cilic and even surviving a nasty fall in the final which briefly left him clutching his groin in pain.
All in all it was an extremely satisfying seven days for the world number two with Wimbledon just a week away.
"I feel good. I'm a bit tired just now. It's been a long five days," Murray said.
"The last couple of days were tough matches against two top grass court players. Because of the way that the weather worked out, it's been mentally a quite draining week. I'm happy I managed to finish it with a win.
"So I'll go away and probably take a day off tomorrow and then start hitting on Tuesday and work on a couple of things in the build-up to Wimbledon.
"The most important thing in the next week or so is just to make sure I keep improving the strength of my back and make sure there's no setbacks.
"And then when Wimbledon comes round it's all about how you play.
"Anything can happen. You can lose a bit of confidence; you can gain confidence. You can pick up a niggle; you can feel 110 percent. You never know.
"But I'm in a good place and I just need to keep working hard the next week."
- About Us
- |
- Terms of Use
- |
-
RSS - |
- Privacy Policy
- |
- Contact Us
- |
- Shanghai Call Center: 962288
- |
- Tip-off hotline: 52920043
- 沪ICP证：沪ICP备05050403号-1
- |
- 互联网新闻信息服务许可证：31120180004
- |
- 网络视听许可证：0909346
- |
- 广播电视节目制作许可证：沪字第354号
- |
- 增值电信业务经营许可证：沪B2-20120012
Copyright © 1999- Shanghai Daily. All rights reserved.Preferably viewed with Internet Explorer 8 or newer browsers.
