Abu Dhabi: Andy Murray believes he plays with more “clarity” and has a better idea of ​​how he needs to compete with top players when he approaches the new season with the aim and trust that is updated.
Former world no.1, up to 134 in rank, has a positive weekend in Abu Dhabi, where he claimed two victories over and Evans and Rafael Nadal before losing to Andrey Rublev in the final of the exhibition tournament.
The 34-year-old Murray, who tried a comeback had no players with Hip Metal who had dared to start, struggling to find his best form against last season’s top players, but finished 2021 with some promising results, including two above.
-10 victory over Hubert Hurkacz and Jannik Sinner.
“I feel like now I’m much clearer in my mind about how I will play and the way I will go about my match the following year,” Murray told reporters in Abu Dhabi on Saturday.
“Decision making comes from having a clear mind and clarity about how you want to play and now I’m pretty sure about it and I believe it will help me in important moments.” Murray missed Australia last February after contracting Covid-19 and with the current surge in cases in the UK, Scotland was alert by suffering a similar fate ahead of next month’s action in Melbourne.
“Obviously it’s a problem,” he said.
“I want to try and stay safe.
When I go home, I will do all my physical training at home in my house and avoid going to the national tennis center; There are a number of cases there last week for 10 days.” Murray hopes to receive a wildcard into the main Australian Open lottery – a tournament where he has reached, and lost, five finals.
Brit has a strong 48-13 win-loss record in Melbourne Park but also experiences so much that is almost missed.
“I kind of feel like I deserve to get an Australian Open, but I never finished it in a big match there,” he said.
“Close and be in a good position several times, but it can’t change it, so it’s clearly something I have to handle.
But my memory from Australia, in terms of how I feel about that place, I like it there.” Murray, a new one.
The newest separated from his nearly six-year coach Jamie Delgado, hasn’t confirmed whether he will extend his probation with German coach Jan De Witt, who was with him in Abu Dhabi this week.
“I fly home tonight, will chat with the team, through how that week.
I think overall it’s positive,” he said.
Meanwhile, Nadal left the UAE capital with two defeat close to Murray and Denis Shapovalov, who was his first competitive match since August.
The Spaniard was still recovering from a chronic leg injury he grew six months ago and non-committees about his participating participation in the upcoming Australia.
“I need to talk to my team.
To 100 percent honest, I can’t guarantee 100 percent.
The idea is to go there and try my best in Australia, that’s the purpose and that’s my idea,” 20 times it was revealed.
Main champion.
“But we need to go back, see how the body feels after a few days then it will be the time to make a decision.
I left day after day at this time in my career and after all the things I traveled, I need to think very well from each movement.
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