Andy Murray has broken a new record, which has renewed his ambitions for the grass season, with a precise target: Wimbledon 2023. The British tennis player has decided not to participate at the Roland Garros, where the Serbian Novak Djokovic won the number 23 of the Grand Slam: clay is not a surface that has given him good results and positive sensations.
By virtue of his real goal, namely Wimbledon, Murray decided to start the season on grass earlier, participating and winning the ATP Challenger. The Grand Slam champion defeated Jurij Rodionov in the final of the Surbiton tournament with the result of 6-3 6-2.
With this success, the second in the Challenger tournament this season, the Olympian set a new record: at the age of 36, he is the oldest tennis player to win a Challenger tournament on grass. After the win, Andy said: “Grass tournaments aren’t easy to win, but it’s great to win another one.
My kids always ask me when I leave if I can go home with the trophy and it’s been rare. I think they were watching on TV. I’ll take home the trophy tonight. It’s a nice win. Yuri played brilliantly all week. He had won all of his games quite well and started the game very well today.
I’m happy to have passed this test and it was the perfect start to the grass season.”
Can Andy Murray really aspire to win Wimbledon?
After the Challenger, Murray should return to the ATP Tour: no Stuttgart tournament, but he should play the Queen’s tournament.
Then, the goal is to stay in London to prepare for Wimbledon: it will be the second Grand Slam tournament in his programming, after the historic journey made in this edition of the Australian Open. Is Andy Murray really a credible challenger for Novak Djokovic at Wimbledon? The answer would be: no.
But Andy, on the Wimbledon lawns, has the experience and the right attitude to be able to impose himself and, why not, to create some problems for Nole and the other competitors. There aren’t many skilled grass tennis players, Andy can be more than just an outsider.
