Andy Murray and a whole lot more!

I’m really pleased and relieved for Andy Murray for winning the Queen’s championships. I can imagine that being the only realistic UK contender to win Wimbledon weighs heavily on this man’s shoulders and  I like the way Andy just get’s on with it and doesn’t let the pressure get to him.

 Clearly the turning for him was being a losing finalist last year’s Wimbledon and him probably feeling that he had let the country down. I felt his pain as he shed those tears and with that annoying Sue Barker asking him silly questions must have compounded the pain.

Yes he is no Tim Henman and that to me is a good thing because I watched as Heman was the media darling did and said all the right things but at the end of day Heman has no slams to show for his efforts. Whilst Andy is disliked in some quarters because of the comments he made years ago and has nothing to do with his tennis. What I like about Andy’s game is that it has evolved over time. Andy’s serve has improved and return of serve is nearly as good as Nadal.

I think that there are two key areas that I attribute to Andy’s success and the first would be his fitness and secondly his coach. Andy has really improved his fitness I remember three years ago he was very thin and he would often lose five set matches. However he has worked on that and now it is not a problem.

Secondly his coach Ivan Lendl, Lendl is a legend himself and I think he has brought the winners mentality to Andy’s game I don’t really think was there before. So I am cautiously optimistic that Andy will be more successful at Wimbledon than he was last year.

Elena Baltacha has also done well this weekend as she won the Nottingham Open granted it was like a tier three tournament but a win is still a win. At Elena’s age being successful is not going to be easy and there were rumours that she was considering retirement but clearly that has now been put on hold.

I am not sure Elena really has the game to challenge the top fifty and her lack of movement around the caught could be a casing point. Elena does have a very good serve but with the recent injuries that she has had it has set her back.

I think if the Wimbledon draw is kind to her she might make it to the second or possibly third round before exiting the tournament and this would hopefully help her to get some much needed ranking points.

Daniela Hantuchova did very well to win Aegon Birmingham championships and recently has been struggling but maybe this grass court title may mean a better Wimbledon for her.

Heather Watson season is very slowly starting didn’t particularly do well at Aegon Birmingham last week and today she is playing at Eastbourne championships against a very good USA players Vavara. I think that based on current form she would do very well to beat Vavara.