Former world nr.1 Ivan Lendl was well known to be a sort of very succesful fitness freak with steel nerves. This is what Andy Murray wants at this stage especially to improve his mental strength.
Without any doubt Murray has the tennis to win more than 1 slams, but it is lacking something during the last stages of majors. Lendl was no different at the beginning of his career when he manged to win his first slam only after the 5th final.
So who’s better than Ivan the Terrible?
“In football they change coaches all the time,” Murray said “They make so many different appointments. If there’s a couple of bad results teams get rid of their coaches. But it’s the worst thing you can do to be chopping and changing all the time.What I don’t want to do is to appoint a guy and then realise halfway through the year that that’s not working and have to change it. At the age I’m at, and this stage of my career, I want someone that’s going to be there for the next four or five years, not just the next six months.”
“The thing that annoys me is the perception that I haven’t been searching for a coach,” Murray commented. “People said, ‘This person would be great for Andy, or this ex-player,’ and I spoke to a few, and a lot of them didn’t want to do the 25 weeks.There’s so few coaches and ex-players who want to do it, because you spend so much time travelling when you’re playing, that when you finish you enjoy being at home. A lot of guys say ‘I want to do 12 to 14 weeks,’ and that’s basically only the grand slams.’
“I’m not a huge believer in turning up for the biggest events of the year and completely changing your routine by having someone different in your corner. They don’t see you over the rest of the year – the things you’re working on, the training that you’re doing on a day-to-day basis, if you’ve had any niggles – all of those sorts of things.”“He is one of the most successful players ever, a very honest guy as well,” Murray said , “which is very important because not everybody is like that. A lot of people are maybe too nice sometimes, they just don’t want to upset you or say the wrong thing, but he was very honest, very open and that was important.”
