Andy Murray He was retired from tennis due to his constant physical problems. Injuries put an end to a brilliant career, although he plucked up the courage and was able to return to elite sport despite playing with a metal hip. The Scotsman is far from that tennis player who was number 1 in the world, and precisely his loss of positions in the ranking is what makes life very difficult for him when it comes to being able to participate in the best tournaments.
However, in tennis invitations still exist, a way that tournament organizers have so that certain tennis players who do not enter among the participants due to ranking, can be in the competition. Andy Murray is the ‘master’ of these Wild Cards because with the last one received this week to play the Dubai ATP 500 has become the tennis player with the most invitations received in the entire history of the ATP.
The Briton got his wild card number 53 throughout his entire sports career to play in dubai and thus equaled Tommy Haas, the man who until now held that solo record. Andy Murray is currently ranked 61 in the ATP ranking, and despite the fact that he is in the Top100, his position prevents him from having a fixed place in the best tournaments on the circuit.
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For this reason, on more than one occasion, especially in recent times, the former number 1 has had to take advantage of tournament invitations to be able to be with the greats of the circuit. In Dubai he will add his wild card 53 but the season has only just begun and, if he does not climb the rankings, it is very likely that this number will increase in the coming months.
A controversial decision
The fact that a player of the stature like Andy Murray is the tennis player who has received the most wild cards in the entire history of the ATP is something that has raised a lot of controversy. For a long time some tennis players have been discussing the convenience of these tools and to whom the Wild Cards are given.
Some voices have been criticizing for some time that someone like Andy Murray is invited to tournaments despite not having the minimum ranking, while other youngsters with fewer opportunities are cut off, but there are also other colleagues who have come out to defend the player in recent days. Scottish.
So, your former coach Mark Petchey He launched a message on his social networks defending the figure and attractiveness of his former pupil: “What happens with the Wild Cards on tour is that they have a commercial impulse, less in the Grand Slams. If you go crazy because Murray receives a , it’s because your favorite player is not selling as many tickets.”
Further on it was still, in response to this same message, the tennis player Victoria Azarenka, who was full of praise for Murray: “Maybe the phrase that Andy deserves to get a Wild Card after all is enough, right? It’s just my opinion,” snapped the current world number 16.
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