Data map: Murray celebrated after scoring. Photo by China News Agency reporter Hou Yu
China News Service, August 25th. In a match of the second round of the Cincinnati Tennis Masters that ended early on the 25th, Beijing time, former champion Murray, after resolving Zverev’s serve victory in the tiebreaker, went 6 : 3, 3: 6, 7: 5 thrilling victory. This is Murray's first victory against the top ten in the world since June 2017.
Murray was once known as the four kings of men's tennis along with Federer, Nadal, and Djokovic. His career has won a total of 3 championships in the majors.
At the beginning of the 2017 season, Murray was plagued by hip injuries. Despite trying various treatments, none of them helped. At the beginning of 2019, Murray announced tearfully that he would retire after Wimbledon in the same year at a press conference before the Australian Open. Since then, he had to bid farewell to the game at the end of the Australian Open journey in advance because of the treatment of hip injuries.
In January 2019, British tennis star Murray stated at the Australian Open press conference that he would retire this year. Although he still hopes to finish the Wimbledon tennis tournament held in the UK, he does not rule out this time. The Australian Open may have become his last match.
However, the successful hip surgery allowed him to get rid of the pain that lasted as long as 18 months, and also allowed Murray, who once wanted to retire, to rekindle his love for tennis.
In June 2019, he appeared on the court for the first time in five months, competing in doubles events. And in August of that year at the Cincinnati Masters officially came back to play in singles matches.
And this year's Cincinnati Masters once again defeated the world's top ten players, perhaps help Murray to find the past game state.
"If you have the opportunity to watch the training sessions after I came here, and the practice games between me and other players. You will find that I was beaten so hard to fight back. It is the same even when training at home. But I think this It is not important, what is important is your performance in the official game." Murray said in an interview after the game.
Data map: Murray returned the ball in the game. Photo by China News Agency reporter Hou Yu
"Many people say that I was very negative in the game and always dissatisfied with myself. But in fact, this is only the surface. Inside I am an extremely confident person in myself. I absolutely believe that I can win such a tough game. !"
After successfully qualifying to the top 16, Murray's opponent in the next round is Raonic.
In other rounds of the second round, Djokovic, the world's No. 1 player, reversed the situation when he was the first to break serve in both sets, and finally beat the qualifier Bilanki with 7: 6 (2) and 6: 4 Si, harvested his first victory after the restart of the tour, and his record this season has also been rewritten to 19 wins and 0 losses. In the next round, Druid will compete with Sandgren for a top eight seat.
Defending champion Medvedev defeated qualifier Geelong 6:4 with two, and reaped the first victory of the tour restart, and his next round opponent will be another qualifier Bedene. (Finish)