Andy Murray

March 21, 2007

Andy Murray

KEY BISCAYNE, FLORIDA

THE MODERATOR: Questions, please.

Q. How are our feeling physically, Andy?
ANDY MURRAY: I feel okay. I haven't played too much since my match with Djokovic, so I'm not 100 percent sure how my body is. Just I feel much better than I did a few days ago.

Q. Have you got more pain in one area, or is it about the same?
ANDY MURRAY: No. I mean, I don't feel any discomfort I think right now. I just haven't played for a while. I've been chasing every ball down in practice, so we'll see how it is. I'll do that tomorrow and see. But everything that was sore on Sunday-Monday is feeling better now.

Q. Pleased to have JP on board? Second or third opinion?
ANDY MURRAY: Yeah, well he's my first opinion. He's the first guy that I speak to about injuries and stuff. You know, normally he's at every single Grand Slam and match. To have him around is always a bonus, and I try to get him here as often as possible.

Q. What about conditions? It's a little different in a few respects from Indian Wells. What do you make of it? Breezy, just something that you to adjust to?
ANDY MURRAY: It's pretty windy here most of the time. In Dubai this year it was windy. It's important to concentrate well in these conditions. Because you might not be hitting the ball well and feel like you're playing badly, but your opponent is feeling the same way. The most important thing this week is to keep the head focused on the job in hand you know, hopefully I'll go up.

Q. Do you feel you have a personal rivalry with Novak? Might be there have been a bet between the two of you who would be in the Top 10 first?
ANDY MURRAY: No, no bets. No rivalry. I'm playing for myself not against other guys. I played against a lot of the teenagers, and there are a lot guys that are doing well in our age. There's not really any rivalries between anybody.

Q. Just look sort of beyond the injury and everything that happened last week. Just putting that to one side, and look at the way you played against Davydenko, and Haas in particular.
ANDY MURRAY: I mean, I feel like in year has been a big step forward. The only guys I lost to in Indian Wells were in the top 5 in the world.
You know, last year I was kind of up and down coming in here, and I feel like I'm playing much more consistent. I'm not losing to guys that are most worse players than me. That's important.
I've won all seven of the three-set matches that I played. It's been a really good start to the year, I think. 19 and 4 or something, which is very good.
You know, one of the better records on the tour, so far. You know, that's what I wanted to do and I've done that.

Q. The fact that you're not losing to the players that the rankings say you shouldn't lose to, players that you're going into the match you know you have to keep that record going, will that help you?
ANDY MURRAY: Well, I mean, that's one of the basics to improving the rankings and your game. You know, when you do come up against guys that are not ranked as high as you, you know, you're going into the match and you should in theory win them.
That's what you have to do to improve your ranking. You can't one week win against Federer and next week lose to someone that is No. 60. You have to step up your game, you know, hopefully win a few of those matches against the Top 10 players.
I've done that so far, and I just need to keep that going.

Q. How much attention do you pay to someone like Paul Goldstein before you play the match? Do you scout him a little bit and think about how he plays?
ANDY MURRAY: I've practiced with him quite a lot. He lives in San Francisco near Brad, so I practice with him a lot. I practiced with him for a few days before Indian Wells; practiced with him before San Jose.
You know, so we know each other's games pretty well. Brad will always scout the guys and watch the match they play before I play them. You know, he gives me some tips, but we know his game pretty well.

Q. Is he pretty hard to play against?
ANDY MURRAY: He plays tough. Last year in LA, he plays tough. He's not that tall. Doesn't have any huge shots, but he's very quick. A lot of experience and doesn't miss too many balls. He's a tough opponent to play against, and like I said, it's important to stay focused on your game and not get too frustrated with the way you're hitting the ball.

Q. This time last year, Andy, you didn't have such a good time. Obviously you haven't got many ranking points between now and Wimbledon to defend. How well do you think you can do in the next few months?
ANDY MURRAY: I don't know how well I can do, because I'm focusing on this week. It's about this week and not about Monte-Carlo or Davis Cup. It's about right now. I'm not thinking about what I might be doing in Rome or Hamburg.
It's important for me to concentrate on this week. I want to play well, and, you know, if I play like I've been playing there's no reason why I can't do well here.
I just want to focus on one tournament at a time and not start thinking about three, four weeks down the line. That's not going to help me play better.

Q. They've talked about making this two out of three instead of five. This tournament has always had the best three out of five for the final. How do you feel about that?
ANDY MURRAY: I don't really mind, to be honest. Whatever the TV wants I guess is the most important thing. The guys that keep the tournaments running and the fans as well. So I don't think that for the players it makes a whole a lot of difference.
I think that in all the other Master's series events it's best-of-five matches. I don't know if they're reducing them. I think in Rome and Hamburg they're playing three-set finals.
It doesn't make a whole a lot of difference unless you're in the final, and I haven't been in a Master Series final yet.

Q. Do you think people know who you are and where you're from more now? Do you get people coming up to you in the stadium wishing you good luck, anything like that, recognition of what you're achieving?
ANDY MURRAY: Maybe get a few more people watching my practices than I did at this time last year. You know, most of the tournaments that I go to there's quite a lot of British fans as well, which helps. I wouldn't say it's a whole a lot different, but I just think at my practices there's definitely more people watching.

March 23, 2007

Andy Murray

KEY BISCAYNE, FLORIDA

Q. So he hung in there a bit, didn't he?
ANDY MURRAY: Yeah, that's how he plays. He doesn't make too many mistakes. He fights hard in all of his matches. I think it was more through my poor play that I let him back into the match with 5-4 in the second. I think I served three double faults in that game and went for a couple of shots that weren't really on.
But I did well to hang in in the tiebreak, and it's quite difficult when you haven't hit that many balls the last few days. The conditions here are pretty tricky with the wind and playing under the lights. It was hard, but I managed to come through.

Q. How do you feel physically?
ANDY MURRAY: I was pretty out of breath, to be honest. I was pretty tired.
You know, I only hit about two and a half hours over the last six days, and the conditions here are completely different to Indian Wells. It's not as hot but it's so humid, and you feel like the court here is really warm. You feel your legs burning a little bit.
I was a little bit out of breath after the long points, but I didn't feel like anything was hurting.

Q. You seemed to move pretty freely.
ANDY MURRAY: Yeah, I move well. The courts here are quite sticky, so you have to be careful when you're changing direction here. But I moved pretty well. It's difficult when you've had a fall like I did the week before to go on court and not worry about doing the same thing again.
I feel like I moved pretty well. I haven't really had any problems since Queens. I don't tend to fall and lose my balance too much, so I did quite well in that respect.

Q. You're not thinking of having an op sometime, are you, on the ankle?
ANDY MURRAY: No, I thought about it the end of last year and the end of the year before, but I just haven't had any problems with it. It wasn't the actual ankle itself that was hurting after the match. It was kind of -- it was kind of right here (indicating), because of I think the brace helped it.
You know, it wasn't the ankle that went over, it just puts a lot of strain on the muscles up the side of your leg. No, I don't think it's necessary.

Q. So the bruising from the hip, I mean, you felt a bit beat up after the match at Indian Wells. Has all that gone away now? Do you feel normal again?
ANDY MURRAY: In terms of the problems I had, I mean, I feel fine. I think if you have a fall like that, the day after and a couple of days after you tend to feel pretty sore.
Then when the bruising and the swelling goes down, obviously you start to feel better. But I didn't have any problems with that.

Q. Could you just tell us what the program has been then the past week, physio, rest, and what else?
ANDY MURRAY: Yeah, I took Sunday, Monday off. I didn't do anything Sunday, Monday. Then arrived here on Wednesday. Tuesday I hit for like 40 minutes before the player meeting. Wednesday I hit for about 50 minutes. Then yesterday I hit with Brad for like an hour.
But it was obviously -- the conditions yesterday were horrible, and it was so windy and rainy so I didn't feel like my rhythm was quite there on my serve. I actually hit my groundstrokes pretty well. I saw the physio quite a lot the last few days to try and get everything better.
It was more of not pushing myself too much the last few days because you can't really expect to be able to do that after the injuries I had.

Q. Did you feel confident going on, or were you slightly aware there could be a few problems today?
ANDY MURRAY: No, I mean, you just have to go out there and try and not think about it. After the first few games and the adrenaline gets pumping and you're sweating, you don't really think about it too much.
That was one of the things I did well out there: Kind of put that to the back of my mind and tried to concentrate on my tennis.

Q. What about Kendrick? He's quite a sort of flashy player, isn't he?
ANDY MURRAY: Yeah, he has some good matches, some tough losses, and he's pretty opposite to Goldstein, who's really quick at the baseline and doesn't hit too many aces.
Kendrick has a big first serve and likes to go for his shots. So, yeah, it's going to be a really difficult match. If he serves well it's going to be important for me to return well. It's the best part of my game.
Against somebody like him you have to try and put pressure on the service games. I've played him a couple times before and obviously won in Newport really easily, but in the US Open it was --

Q. In one set, yeah.
ANDY MURRAY: Yeah.

Q. Do you expect him to come in a lot, serve and volley against you?
ANDY MURRAY: He did it in Newport, and didn't work too well there. And then at the US Open he kind of did it -- at some points and some points not. Here it's difficult to say because of the wind.
Serving is not the easiest thing to do. To control the volleys is difficult. So I'll just have to see when I get out there, but I'll try and make a lot of returns.

Q. You must enjoy target, don't you, if someone gets hurt with your passing shots?
ANDY MURRAY: I've got a pretty good record against guys like Mirnyi, you know, Kendrick, those sort of guys that play like that. But again those guys, if they play well, they can make it really difficult.
It's very important to concentrate hard against them. I lost my concentration a little bit tonight against Kendrick, and I can't afford to do that.

Q. Did you see Tim's match last night?
ANDY MURRAY: No, I didn't see any of it. It wasn't on the TV.

Q. The Davis Cup squad has just been announced, and as anticipated Jamie is in. Are you pleased about that?
ANDY MURRAY: Yeah, he's had a really good run the last few months, and obviously this year, as well, and I think it's important for all Davis Cup teams to have a good doubles player or doubles specialist to come in and help the team out.
I think that's been a problem in the past with him and Greg and everyone saying sort of a third man if one of your singles players is retired, and I think my brother can provide that. He's had some good wins, and I'm sure he can compete with the best players, and maybe he'll get a chance to show that in Davis Cup.

Q. Do you think you'll play with him?
ANDY MURRAY: I'm not sure. Obviously John will decide after the first day, I guess, how the matches have gone. We'll just have to wait and see if someone of us, me or Tim, has a long match, maybe even Greg plays with my brother. I'm not really sure what he'll do. But I guess there's a good chance we'll play together.

Q. Do you expect that these are a few options that strengthens the team now?
ANDY MURRAY: I think I prefer just having kind of a simple team where it's pretty obvious, like the U.S. Davis Cup team with Roddick, Blake and The Bryans.
I'm happy when you have a team like that. You make it kind of difficult, and it's hard for the captain if you have six, seven different options where -- you know, it's difficult. We've never had it before.
My brother has never played doubles with Tim or Greg, and if he's going to play it's going to be hard to know who to put him with. Obviously Greg having not played that much, you don't know how he's going to be, how he's going to be playing going into a big Davis Cup match.
It's going to make it difficult for John. There's a lot of decisions he has to make, and hopefully he'll make the right ones.

Q. Do you think you complement each other quite well, you and your brother?
ANDY MURRAY: Yeah, we played well. It took us a little while at the start to get used to Nottingham Newport -- well, obviously Jamie got injured after three games and it wasn't really a match.
But in Newport we didn't really play that well together. But it just takes time, like any partnership. I returned well. Jamie volleys well and takes over at the net. I think we do complement each other's games pretty well.

Q. How far does that go back when you last played doubles with him? Are we going back a long way?
ANDY MURRAY: Last time I played with him was I think was US Open juniors. I think we lost in the semifinals together. We've always played well together.
It just takes time to get used to who dictates from the back, how we're going to play when I'm serving. It's just like anything in any partnership. It's the same with new players.

Q. Did you see the end of his doubles against Nadal and Lopez?
ANDY MURRAY: No, I didn't see any of it.

Q. It was fairly impressive the way he closed it out. Butorac's serving for the match and Jamie hit four great volleys to finish it off. It suggests he's got a great temperament for finishing off against great players.
ANDY MURRAY: Yeah, Jamie has always enjoyed playing in front of a crowd since we were very young. He's got a pretty calm head. He always thinks out there and doesn't get too frustrated. I think he'll play better, it just takes time and experience to get even better.
But I think his sort of mentality is kind of built for the big tournaments.

Q. So he'll enjoy that, Davis Cup?
ANDY MURRAY: Yeah, you can never say for sure until you actually get out there, but there's no reason why he can't. I mean, he's played very few ATP tournaments, and the ones that he has, he's made two finals, he's won two. He's got a really good record.
Normally it takes guys a little while to get used to that: Playing against better opposition and higher quality. But he's done really well in the tournaments he's played.

March 25, 2007

Andy Murray

KEY BISCAYNE, FLORIDA

THE MODERATOR: Questions, please.

Q. Was it good?
ANDY MURRAY: Yeah, it was good. The first set was a little bit tricky. I had a few chances on his serve early in the set and didn't take them. It was hard in those conditions, because, you know, you have to kind of decide what sort of tennis you're going to play.
You know, you play ultra aggressive or play pretty conservatively. I chose to focus on putting a lot of balls in the court and not going for the lines. He played sort of high-risk tennis, you know, made more mistakes than me. But yeah, it was a pretty good match.

Q. Do you feel good physically?
ANDY MURRAY: Yeah, I felt fine; no problems.

Q. They used to say John McEnroe had the rage for perfection. You seem to have a bit of that. Not that you berate linemen or anything, but you seem that you hate to lose any points. Is that kind of your mentality?
ANDY MURRAY: I don't particularly like hitting bad shots. I can accept losing a point when my opponent hits a winner or when I get aced. I don't particularly like, you know, hitting bad shots.
But I think every player kind of knows it's impossible to go all match without losing a point. So it's not really worth getting into an argument over a point.

Q. Does that help you play better when you constantly get on yourself and berate yourself?
ANDY MURRAY: I wouldn't say I constantly berate myself.

Q. What would you say?
ANDY MURRAY: My game's been going pretty well this year, so whatever I'm doing on court I'd like to think is more my tennis. But I don't know if it helps me or not.

Q. Are you ready for a breakthrough? Do you feel that you're on the cusp of a breakthrough? Top 10, that type, beating the top players?
ANDY MURRAY: I'd say I'm pretty close. I mean, I've started this year pretty well. There being a lot of the top players already -- beating a lot of the top players already.
The ones I haven't beaten I've lost close matches to. So I'd say I'm pretty -- well, I am close to the Top 10. I am. I'm 12th in the world. I'm pretty close in the rankings so, yeah, I guess I am getting close to it.

Q. Anything separating you and Novak from some of the other young guys right now?
ANDY MURRAY: I mean, I don't know what it is exactly. I think both of us work pretty hard to start with. Maybe a lot of the young guys kind of put a lot of pressure on rankings and results and stuff.
But it's like you kind of know in the back of your mind where you're ranked and everything, but I think both of us understand the most important thing is to improve your tennis. When that happens, it's not always about the results, it's more about whether you're getting better as a player.
And if you're getting better as a player, then your results are going to improve. So maybe that's the main thing.

Q. Does it feel like you have also a fewer highs and lows maybe than some of the other guys you're often lumped together with?
ANDY MURRAY: Have more what?

Q. Fewer.
ANDY MURRAY: Fewer?

Q. Fewer ups and downs, a little more consistent?
ANDY MURRAY: I guess this year so far, yeah. Last year both of us had a few ups and downs. You know, he had a little injury here and there. You know, this year we both played very consistently.
That's one of the things you learn from being on the tour for a couple of years. If you want to be one of the best, you can go and have bad weeks and you have to perform in these big tournaments. It takes a little while to learn that.

Q. What do you feel you need to get to the next level? You seem like you have all the shots. Maybe is it fitness or anything like that? Something to improve on? Anything to improve on?
ANDY MURRAY: I think I can improve everything. I don't think fitness is a problem. I don't think it's my strokes. I'm still young. Nobody plays their best when they're young. You improve everything when you get older. You gain more experience. You work on your game. You add extra little bits and pieces, like your serve-volleys.
You know, being more aggressive sometimes, whatever it is. Hitting your second serve harder. It's just little things that make you that little bit better, and that's what makes the difference between the best players in the world, and the ones that are not quite in the Top 10.

Q. You see JP doing his rescue act?
ANDY MURRAY: I didn't see him go over. I mean, I knew what was going on, but I didn't see him go over and do anything.

Q. If it is Gonzalez you meet next, do you expect that to be very different to the US Open?
ANDY MURRAY: No.

Q. He's got a new coach and all the rest of it.
ANDY MURRAY: Yeah, well, when he started with Stefanki he made semis, semis in Toronto, semis in Cincinnati. I beat him in the third round of the US Open, and he finished the year great: The finals in Madrid, finals in Vienna. You know, and I think final in Basel as well.
Since Stfanki's been working with him he's had a good year. He did well in Australia. But I've improved as well, so I would say it's going to be a completely different match.

Q. You haven't seen anything different in his game since you last played him?
ANDY MURRAY: He's probably playing more consistent than he was. He's still quite unpredictable because he does have such a big forehand and hits huge first serves. He can also slice his slow serves in. He has a lot of slice on his backhand as well, so...
I wouldn't say his game's changed that much. His actual style of play is maybe just a bit more consistent.

Q. Do you feel you've completely gotten over the physical problems of last week now?
ANDY MURRAY: Yeah, I feel fine. I said it wasn't like I sprained an ankle or had a huge lot of inflammation and swelling, which takes a while to get rid of. It hurts when you stand on your leg, but when you do have a fall like that and you're badly bruised, it takes three or four days to get over it. I had a few days off, and I feel fine now.

Q. Not to overdo this, but can you give me an example of what you say to yourself when you're a little annoyed with yourself?
ANDY MURRAY: Well, it depends what I'm annoyed about, I guess. I mean, if I miss a serve I probably tell myself to make the first serve. If I miss a forehand return I'll tell myself to return better. It's nothing too major. It's just small, short things.

Q. You chose not to retire in your match with Haas in the last tournament. But are you aware of players that sort of tend to retire more in matches if they're losing and these kinds of things, or as a player?
ANDY MURRAY: It's not so much the retiring, it's more having to deal with adversity mentally. I think some guys, when they get behind, start to struggle a little bit and lose patience and start going for big shots too early in the rally.
There's more of that sort of stuff that you kind of think about. You don't look to see if guys retire when they get down, because I like to think that most of the guys will stop when they actually have a problem.
It's more some guys you look at the record, and it will be -- they'll lose seven matches, and the first set will be 7-6, 6-1, 6-4, 6-2, and the second set will be easier, and that's the sort of thing you pick up on.

Q. But isn't it sort of sometimes a player that is maybe a little bit hurt and they're starting to lose, they don't want to give the other guy the satisfaction of having to win, so they sort of pack it in?
ANDY MURRAY: Well, what do you want me to say?

Q. Are you aware of that, of players that do that on the tour?
ANDY MURRAY: No, I think it's a professional decision. If you don't think you've got a chance of winning the match, there's no point in going out there. So maybe some guys will stop, or if they hurt themselves early on, I guess it makes sense not to play.
I think you learn that the more you go on. It's not normally the young guys that tend to pull out. It's kind of the guys that have a bit more experience.

Q. What is the best thing or the No. 1 thing that Brad Gilbert has been able to convey to you that you feel has worked?
ANDY MURRAY: I think just everything. He brings a lot to the table. He's a great player himself. He's coached a lot of good players. I would say tactically he's one of the best coaches in the game. So he knows how I should be playing against a lot of the players.
He's watched so much tennis, and I would say from the way he played, that was what he had to do well. He had to figure out his opponent's weaknesses, because his game wasn't as good as the other players. But he knew exactly how to get at his opponent's weaknesses, and that's what he's kind of taught me.
Obviously, it helps a lot when you go into these matches having such good tactics. You know, the most important thing in tennis is to be better than the guys on the other side of the net. And it's pretty simple.

Q. You ever read his book?
ANDY MURRAY: No, I don't like reading.

Q. As you said, you played quite conservatively today, but you attacked a lot at times. Does it also help you having played two very different ways, to have settled into a tournament and play differently like that?
ANDY MURRAY: Yeah, I mean, that's one of the things that I worked on a lot in the off season was being able to kind of have a game plan, A & B, when I do play against guys.
Like Kendrick has a big serve and he's quite erratic and unpredictable. It's important to put a lot of balls back and give him the chance to miss them.
Against somebody like Goldstein, who gets every ball back and gives you chances to come to the net, you have to take them. I wouldn't say it helps so much during a tournament. It's just more for the experience of when I play like that, I know I can do it now in a match.
I hardly played like that at all last year, the way I played against Goldstein, so it was nice to play a match like that where I did come to the net a lot, and I was the one being more aggressive than my opponent.

March 27, 2007

Andy Murray

KEY BISCAYNE, FLORIDA

THE MODERATOR: Questions, please.

Q. Quite a match, Andy, quite a turnaround.
ANDY MURRAY: Yeah, I knew it was going to be difficult against him, and didn't start off too well.
I was missing a lot of balls and didn't move too well, and then, you know, there was somebody in the crowd who at 5-3 matchpoint down shouted at me, Murray, you've got nothing.
And I was like, Well, I do. I think I got more than what I was putting out there. Then I kind of hit a couple of big serves and managed to break.
I don't know if he got nervous in the next game, but on the matchpoint he missed one backhand into the net, and I played some good shots and kind of managed to turn the match around. So it was difficult pretty up and down match.
It wasn't that there was too many ups and downs. He was up and then it kind of changed once I got the momentum I had the whole time. So it was just a matter of getting in front, and then I felt like I could stay there.

Q. Can you recall the last time -- apart from those first two games -- you started so sluggishly in a match?
ANDY MURRAY: I don't know. I've played bad sets before, like this year in Doha I lost the first set against Mirnyi 6-2, 1-4, Love down. It just happens sometimes.
It takes a little -- everybody starts -- plays bad sets, but it's how you manage to turn it around. I left it a little bit close today to turn it around, but it was one of those matches where you just had to keep hanging in. It's hard in these conditions.
You know, I felt like the most important thing was that I won the match, and that's what I can take away from it because I didn't feel like I did anything that well.

Q. How much more satisfying is it? You get on court sometimes, you play great, everything is flowing, and you think, Yeah, well great, but you scrap your way through. You must feel that much more satisfied yourself that you kept going?
ANDY MURRAY: Yeah, well, it's easy when you go behind, and I've been away for, what, seven, seven and a half weeks now. A set and a break down, you know, it's easy -- that's the easy way out. That's the one thing that separates the best players from the guys that aren't ranked as high is when you've been on strong stretches and when they are a little bit tired, there's not so much physical fatigue, more mental fatigue.
It's easy to kind of just take the easy route when you're losing just to finish the match 6-2, 6-3, 6-2, 6-4 and then you've got a little bit of time off.
It's an important tournament for me. I've been playing really well this year, and I don't want to stop now.

Q. What do you do differently when you're in that situation now to what you did a year ago when you were in that kind of situation?
ANDY MURRAY: Well, this year I made an 0 in three-set matches. I haven't lost one yet. Since the start of the year and the end of last year the important thing is to if you're going to get your ranking up is to win those close matches.
When the chips are down, not to give up and keep fighting. I don't think I gave up last year, I just wouldn't have found a way to win, and I've done that so far this year.
Like I said, it wasn't the tennis that was a problem, it was just experience and finding ways to win. And now that I've won those tight matches, my ranking has gone in the right direction.

Q. Do you have in the back of your mind, Andy, in those situations, A, you want to win for yourself, of course, but B, that his reputation as someone who finds it tough to close out matches? Is that something you think, Well, he hasn't crossed the finish line first and I still think I can improve, but his record is of someone who has failed at the final hurdle a few times?
ANDY MURRAY: What was the question?

Q. Well, is that in the back of your mind, that you know he finds it difficult to close out matches?
ANDY MURRAY: I mean, obviously I think against any player everybody says that everybody gets a bit nervous closing out matches. But if I'm being honest, I didn't feel like he played that badly.
He played a bad game at -- not at 6-5 but 5-All after I broke him, but he started inspect on his first serve. He hit a really good first serve and I hit a great blocked forehand deep and got myself in the point.
It wasn't like he choked on some shots badly or was getting really nervous. I felt like I kind of worked my way back into the match.
When you do get yourself back into a match like that, even though he hasn't played that bad, you know that he's thinking in his mind, like, I haven't closed out the match again, whatever.
And it's important for you to keep focused the next couple of games, and I did that and I took it to him and I tried to press a little bit more. He did get a little bit nervous at 5-All when I did break him.

Q. How does it feel, quarterfinals, semifinals, final, apart from the Australian Open, reaching the fourth round, you've had a great run of results. Apart from the tiredness, as you say, feeling good about everything else?
ANDY MURRAY: Yeah, I mean, I don't feel tired physically, it's just because this is the first year on the tour where I've had a stretch of maybe -- like this apart from maybe Washington and Cincinnati time and the Australian Open I did get a little bit flat against Davydenko.
I've never really had this sort of period of time where I've been playing very well and winning a lot of matches.
You know, I'm just happy that I started this way, and the important thing was winning the close matches, and I've been doing that. I don't feel tired, but I'm just happy with the way that I've been playing, and hopefully I can keep building on that.

Q. Did finding a way to win involve lots of small adjustments rather than anything significant, like the short stuff being a bit tighter and being a bit more accurate with some of your deeper shots?
ANDY MURRAY: Most important thing was when I was on the run, not pulling the trigger too early in the point. I started off the match when I was doing quite a bit of running, I just was hitting a lot of balls in the net not really choosing the right shot.
Once I did, which is normally the best thing that I do is when I'm on the run I get the ball back in play and try to put it in a position where my point doesn't make it, and I wasn't doing that in the first set.
That was the main thing. When I did start doing that, using my legs properly and doing a lot of running, that was a big difference.

Q. Does the escape give you a rush of adrenaline when you've saved the matchpoints and you get a sequence of games?
ANDY MURRAY: I think like when I did break back, obviously I did get quite pumped up, but it's -- I guess once you get older -- that's why everybody says experience is so important, because you can kind of stay level.
Those sort of matches will happen probably 30, 40 times in my career, and you sort of get -- you don't let yourself get too pumped up and you don't let yourself get too down.
And after the -- when it did get to 3-Love in the third set, I started to cool down a little bit. I played two bad games on the serve. I think I lost two games to Love on his serve. I played a drop shot off his second serve, which I hadn't tried at all the whole match.
You just don't -- you don't have those sort of ups and downs as much. You kind of play a little bit more level, and I do play well on adrenaline. But it's important when you do come down you have to maintain your focus, and that's something that I have to learn.