Murray dubious to triumph : Wimbledon

A few days ago I wrote a tennis story and received grand feedback so my brain has again knock to write another one.

I speculate if Andy Murray continually perceives the verity that he’s playing in an era with two of the utmost tennis players of all time? I deduce he does.

The Scot has all the characteristics to be a foremost winner; he can play every shot in the book, is incredibly fit, loves a challenge and has great court-craft and intuition, but so far this total package hasn’t been quite good sufficient.

There is evolution era in tennis, identical to every sport, when the superior players go off, get injured or drop their edge and that’s when the lesser-lights have a chance of clinching one of the big ones.

And while it’s been like this for a while on the women’s tour, the men’s has been dominated by Roger Federer and Rafa Nadal for several years, and now Novak Djokovic has entered the tussle.

So even though Murray has become the king of Queen’s club for the second time in his career and is reasonably the fourth finest player in the world, the chances of him ending Britain’s 75-year wait for a men’s singles champion at Wimbledon really aren’t that great.

For the subsequent three weeks or so, he’ll be beneath a passionate microscope. The British media will follow him everywhere and report on everything he does, but he’ll have got used to that as we have been reading and viewing. It’s literally ‘Murray Mania.’

In actuality, I think he does enormously well under acute force and don’t deem his failure to win a major is because of a mental block.

It’s just that the players, who have beaten him in the three finals he has reached, have played at a different level. Take this year’s Australian Open for example. Djokovic took him out in straight sets during a splendid winning run in which he beat Nadal four straight times and Federer three.

Since Federer victor his first Wimbledon in 2003, the three players I just bring up have won 28 of the 32 major titles on offer. Isn’t that far-fetched?

The four they missed went to Andy Roddick (US Open 2003), Gaston Gaudio (French Open 2004), Marat Safin (Australian Open 2005) and Juan Martin del Potro (US Open 2009).

And accordingly given that the Wimbledon title has gone to either Federer or Nadal for the past seven years, it’s hard to see past the dynamic duo, although I do think Novak has a real shot if it stays dry!

Now I ought to put a rupture to my thought and give my mind moment to write down next tennis write up in the future. Seeing as tennis is my passion and game next one is in procession.

Prateek Pathak

Student

B.A in Media Studies

University of Allahabad