Djokovic puts injury concerns to rest | 01:14The second day at Wimbledon opened with the sad news Andy Murray would not be able to play his singles, which prompted emotional reactions around the ground but also evoked memories of one of the great press conferences in recent history in tennis.Not Nick Kyrgios, who is a big fan of the Scottish great.
Kyrgios, who is planning on a comeback next month in doubles and has also committed to a UTS exhibition event at Forrest Hills in the lead-in to the US Open, said he cannot wait to hit some balls with the rival who defeated him in four sets in the 2022 Wimbledon final. “Obviously I started a little bit more cautious, I would say. I didn’t really maybe go for certain shots 100 percent in terms of … the far balls in the first set. I played … just enough to win confidently in straight sets. I felt like as the match progressed, I moved better,” he said. “Those couple points I think when I broke him in the second set, I did one slide. That was the first slide of the grass court season for me. I haven’t done it even in a practice week, so that was a great test.
“Of course, we did check in the days prior if we have a permission. We’re trying to find a white one, trust me. I saw Frances Tiafoe played he had actually a black colour sleeve. Grey, I think, it’s maybe slightly better towards the white.” “Sometimes you wake up and you’re low energy or, I don’t know, his girlfriend is pissing him off the day before. These kind of things happen. And you need to be in the right space and I’m going to try to capitalise and do my best to do that on Wednesday.”
And Alexei Popyrin shapes as the final victim of Murray during his distinguished career, with the dual-Olympic gold medallist producing an impressive performance at Queen’s against the big-serving Australian prior to the cyst flaring a day later against Thompson. The right-hander, who defeated Milos Raonic to win his second Wimbledon and Roger Federer at the All England Club and Juan Martin del Potro in Rio de Janeiro for his gold medals, also led Great Britain to break a drought of 79 years when winning the Davis Cup in 2015.
We’ll leave it to Andy’s mum Judy to detail what unfolded in the corridors under Arthur Ashe Stadium after her phone pinged midway through his semi-final against Tomas Berdych.