Andy Murray: “Safin has been the tennis player who has intimidated me the most”

The British tennis player Andy Murray gave a very personal interview for The Guardian, where he reviewed a large part of his life and got wet for who has been the player he has faced that has intimidated him the most. Also, see Roger Federer as the big four player who will retire before the professional circuit.

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-The first memory you think of your whole life:

“My first day of school when I was four or five. I don’t remember much about it. My brother Jamie and I had some very difficult times growing up. Our parents got divorced and that was very difficult for me. Obviously he didn’t forget about the shooting either. at Dunblane school in 1996. Despite everything, we also had good times, as I played a lot of tennis and had a very active childhood. “

-Your experience as a teenager in Barcelona:

“If I had to go back in time, I would go to Barcelona again. When I was 15 I went there and started training with more intensity. That was the first time I had freedom. It is something typical that people go through, since they begin to have freedom when they finish school or move to a university. I loved my experience in Barcelona and made a lot of friends there. “

-Personality on and off the slopes:

“When people see me on television they think that I am very intense, complicated and that I am always in a bad mood. But if you take me off the court I am a fairly calm person. I do not have a bad temper, I do not break things, I do not hit walls, I don’t scream … But it’s true that when I’m on a tennis court my attitude is totally different from when I’m off it. “

-The player who intimidated him the most on a tennis court:

“The only player who intimidated me and I don’t know exactly why, was Marat Safin. I played with him when I was still very young. If I remember correctly it was in Cincinnati 2005. Sometimes he would talk to him and he was very nice to me. But also sometimes he thought he didn’t like me very much and found him a bit complicated to deal with. “

-He does not like to be positive or pessimistic, just realistic:

“I am not a person who considers myself neither optimistic nor pessimistic. I am realistic and I simply want to be told the reality of a situation and not for someone to try to put a positive or negative turn on things. In life, there are situations in which things suck and others are really good at. But things don’t go well all the time. “

-Critics of many people:

“People throughout my career have said very terrible things to me, but I try not to bother that. Once after losing in the 2011 Wimbledon semifinals to Nadal, I was walking down the street with my wife and some guys passed by. next to me and they yelled: Damn loser! It was a period in my career where I already doubted myself. I found it quite hurtful. “

-Who will retire before the big four?

“It is a question that has been asked me on countless occasions. If I had to say for someone I would say that for Federer. He is 39 years old, but who knows. I was about to be the first of all for those annoyances in me hip that prevented me from playing tennis normally. “

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