Summary: <img width="1024" height="576" src="https://blog.tennisevolution.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/Andy-Murray-Mentally-Tough-1024x576.jpg" class="attachment-large size-large wp-post-image" alt="" style="float: left; margin: 0 15px 15px 0;"><p><img class="aligncenter wp-image-13070 size-large" src="https://blog.tennisevolution.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/Andy-Murray-Mentally-Tough-1024x576.jpg" alt="" width="1024" height="576"></p> <p>Listen to Jeff’s analysis…</p> <div class="smart-track-player-container stp-color-2d7bbf-EEEEEE"></div> <h3>Show Notes</h3> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Hi, it’s Jeff here, and today, I want to talk about Andy Murray. Yes, I know Novak Djokovic won the French Open and Andy Murray finished in second, but last week, I was looking at Facebook, as I usually do everyday, just to kind of see what’s going on in the tennis world, and I saw a post, basically challenging Andy Murray, that he was not a mentally tough player, essentially, that he doesn’t come up big in the clutch. And I took notice of that, and was somewhat offended, actually. You know, being a former pro tennis player who clearly didn’t attain the heights of the ranking that I would have wanted to get to in my career, I mean I was a career journey man between a hundred and 200 in the world, but you know, I like to think I was pretty mentally tough.</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">And here is Andy Murray, who has won multiple grand slam titles. He’s the Davis Cup champion, he essentially carries Great Britain on his shoulders last year, winning every singles match. I think he might have even won every doubles match. Not sure exactly on that stat, but for all intents and purposes, he dominated Davis Cup last year, and that’s a lot of pressure. You know, in case anyone has competed before to win for your country, for Great Britain, a country that has not won the Davis Cup for so many years, to win Wimbledon, it had been so many years since anyone from his country had done so, and to handle that pressure, to win multiple Grand Slams, and to be number 2 in the world, to play it in an era when, arguably, have 3 greatest players of all time, maybe 3 at the top 5 players of all time have played in: Djokovic, Federer and Nadal.</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">And here’s Andy Murray, who continues to finish second, to most of those guys when they’re playing their best, but keeps getting better, keeps fighting, keeps finding ways to win, and yes, I know that he yells at his box when he gets frustrated. But again, if anyone’s been in the trenches, if anyone’s played tennis, and been there, battling day in and out, they know that it can be a frustrating experience, and sometimes, you do take it out on those closest to in the box. You know, he’s not perfect. He’ll be the first to admit that. And so, you know, I really think that a lot of these armchair quarter packs on Facebook and other coaches that bag players like in Andy Murray, it’s ridiculous to me. I’m sorry, but you know</span></p>
