‘Will attend Wimbledon if a Briton makes it to final’, says Andy Murray

Andy Murray mentioned he has no plans to attend Wimbledon this 12 months except a British participant makes the ultimate, or his kids wish to go.

Murray, who gained two of his three main titles at Wimbledon and ended Britain’s 77-year await a males’s singles champion on the grass-court Grand Slam in 2013, mentioned he not often attends tennis matches as a fan.

“I haven’t got any plans to go,” Murray, who lifted the title once more in 2016, advised British media.

“I am not working there. I do not go to look at tennis as a fan. But when certainly one of my youngsters wished to go alongside and watch, I clearly would take them. If a British participant made the ultimate I might go.

“I went to the Novak Djokovic v Carlos Alcaraz ultimate a few years in the past, simply because I had a sense it was going to be a fantastic match. However I will not be there in any other case.”

Murray, who can be immortalised with a statue throughout Wimbledon’s one hundred and fiftieth anniversary in 2027, ended his taking part in profession after the Paris Olympics earlier than becoming a member of the teaching workforce of 24-time Grand Slam champion Novak Djokovic forward of the Australian Open.

That partnership did not yield any trophies and ended earlier than the French Open.

Murray mentioned British males’s tennis was in good fingers and he anticipated Jack Draper to deal with the added stress after successful at Indian Wells in March and climbing the rankings to fourth on the earth.

Draper can be seeded fourth when the Wimbledon foremost draw begins on Monday.

“It will be somewhat bit totally different this 12 months coming in as a prime seed however he’ll take care of it nicely,” Murray mentioned.

“He is performed in tough environments and beneath stress earlier than, and I am certain he’ll deal with it nicely.”