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Andy Murray could have sent Gilles Simon into retirement on Monday night. This would have been logical given the statistics: 16 matches won by the Scot out of 18 played against the Frenchman before the match. This is also what the public thought at 6-4, 5-3 in favor of the Briton. But then the machine suddenly broke down. Simon took advantage of the situation to prolong the pleasure a little longer for his last tournament. In the end, he won 4-6, 7-5, 6-3 after 3 hours of play. Interviewed by the Daily Mail, Murray made a bitter and scathing statement about his physical condition. Indeed, the man has been suffering from early and recurrent cramps for several months now.
“For this to happen after a set and a half on an indoor court where it’s not particularly hot, it’s really not acceptable. There’s no guarantee that I’m going to win this match, but when you lose matches and you feel like it’s due to your physicality, it’s really, really disappointing. It has nothing to do with my hip. I think the reality is that I have to work harder. Obviously, there are some things I can and can’t do today, I have to be a little more careful with some of my workouts. But I can definitely do more than I have and push myself harder than I have recently. What I’m trying to do is extremely difficult. I have to do exceptional things to stay competitive. To be quite honest, I don’t think that’s been the case over the last four or five months, since the problem started in Newport. Usually I spend more time on my training and more time, you know, like training blocks in hot climates and things like that. So it’s something I’ll have to look into,” he detailed to the British newspaper.
