The 36-year-old lifted the Surbiton Trophy on Sunday and says he is content with 'grinding' at Challenger level
“She said, ‘I’m just watching Novak on the news, seeing that he won in Paris and I’m so proud that you’re still grinding it out in Challengers and still working as hard as you know you ever have done.’ That means a lot to me,” Murray said after winning his first-round match in Nottingham, beating Belgian qualifier Joris De Loore 6-3, 6-4.
“So whether I win another grand slam or winning Challengers is the peak for me now, I’m okay with that because I’m doing what I love to do. “And I always wanted what they had but I think once I started to accept that I shouldn’t be comparing myself against other people, and I should just focus on my own journey and working as hard as I possibly can to achieve the goals that I want to, that’s all you can do. And I’m still doing that now.
Murray has not played a tournament in Nottingham since 2006 when, as a 19-year-old, he knocked out the No 5 seed Dmitry Tursunov but also lost in the quarter-finals to Italy’s Andreas Seppi.He was initially planning to play the ATP event in Stuttgart, where he reached the final last year, but says he chose to play Nottingham instead because the conditions are more like the second week of Wimbledon, his main goal for 2023.
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