Wednesday, 22 October 2008

Murray Looking to Buck the Trend

Andy Murray starts his title defence at the St. Petersburg Open against Serbian Viktor Troicki today.

He will be looking to avoid what has become a familiar formula of dropping out of tournaments disappointingly early after winning big the week before.

After winning the tournament in Doha, he dropped out of the Australian Open in a poor manner. He struggled at Rotterdam after winning in Marseille, and he flopped big time at the Olympics after his maiden Masters Series win in Cincinnati.

It is clearly an issue Murray will be looking to address coming into Russia on the back of his superb second Masters Series title last week in Madrid.

It has been well documented the amount of work Murray and his trainers have been putting in off the tennis court, so the issue must not be a physical one. So what is it Murray struggles with? Can it be mental? Im not sure. I will be waiting to find out with keen interest later on today to see how the tournament in Russia goes for the British number one.

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