© Getty Pictures Sport – Morgan Hancock
Andy Murray ripped fellow British tennis participant Liam Broady as “a clown” after the 2 disagreed with their views on Mirra Andreeva´s beautiful Australian Open comeback.
Andreeva, 16, created one of the vital spectacular comebacks at this yr´s Australian Open after recovering from 1-5 down within the third set to beat Diane Parry 1-6 6-1 7-6 (5) and attain the round-of-16 in her debut at Melbourne Park. Murray, a three-time Grand Slam champion and a five-time Australian Open finalist, was following Andreeva´s match on TV.
After Andreeva´s beautiful comeback, former world No. 1 Murray took to X, the place he hit again on the commentator who was blaming Andreeva “unhealthy psychological power” for falling 1-5 down within the decider. In his message, Murray underlined that such a comeback wouldn’t have been doable if Andreeva wasn´t a mentally sturdy participant within the first place.
“Andreeva down 5-1 in third. Commentator ‘she actually must work on psychological facet of her sport… She’s too laborious on herself when she’s dropping’. half-hour later 7-6 Andreeva wins. Perhaps the explanation she turned the match spherical is due to her psychological power. Perhaps she turned the match round as a result of she is tough on herself and calls for extra of herself when she’s dropping/enjoying badly? Winner,” Murray wrote on X.
Andreeva down 5-1 in third. Commentator “she actually must work on psychological facet of her sport.. she’s too laborious on herself when she’s dropping”half-hour later 7-6 Andreeva wins.Perhaps the explanation she turned the match spherical is due to her psychological power. Perhaps she turned the…
— Andy Murray (@andy_murray) January 19, 2024
Murray calls Broady ´a clown´
Broady, ranked at No. 98 on the earth, argued Murray´s perspective, suggesting that the three-time Grand Slam champion ought to have used “psychological composure” as a substitute of “psychological power” to correctly describe Andreeva´s comeback.
“Psychological power is the unsuitable phrase. To return from 5-1 down within the third in a Slam at her age is nice psychological power. However maybe if she had higher psychological composure she wouldn’t have gone 5-1 down within the third within the first place?” Broady´s response learn.
Reacting to Broady´s response, Murray was fairly blunt: “I don’t perceive your tweet. You stated psychological power is the unsuitable phrase after which within the subsequent sentence say coming from 5-1 down is nice psychological power. Liam Broady the strolling contradiction. (clown emoji).”
I don’t perceive your tweet. You stated psychological power is the unsuitable phrase after which within the subsequent sentence say coming from 5-1 down is nice psychological power. Liam Broady the strolling contradiction. 🤡
— Andy Murray (@andy_murray) January 19, 2024
Andreeva plans to border Murray´s X submit
Andreeva obtained off to a really gradual begin to the match, struggling back-to-back and falling 0-5 down early within the match. Andreeva managed to lastly get on the board after serving out the sixth sport, but it surely didn´t change a lot relating to the result of the primary set Parry served out for the opener within the seventh sport.
By the opening two video games of the second set, Andreeva and Parry had been tied to 1 sport apiece with out breaks on both facet. Then, Andreeva quickly improved her stage and received the subsequent 5 video games to clinch the second set in type and pressure a decider.
Simply when it appeared that the entire momentum was on Andreeva´s facet, the 16-year-old dropped her service within the second sport of the third set. Down by an early break, Andreeva had an opportunity to immediately get the break again within the third sport however she missed out on a break level.
Within the fourth sport, Andreeva saved a break level however nonetheless discovered herself down by two breaks after Parry broke the Russian within the sixth sport for a 5-1 lead. Dealing with a loss, Andreeva managed to get one break again within the seventh sport after which save a match level within the following sport on her serve to chop the deficit to 3-5.
With Parry serving for the match for the second time, Andreeva managed to get the second break again as properly earlier than efficiently serving out the next sport to stage the third set to 5 video games apiece. Within the eleventh sport, Andreeva earned her third consecutive break to take a 6-5 lead. After profitable her fifth consecutive sport and giving herself an opportunity to serve out for the match, Andreeva surprisingly failed to shut out the match within the twelfth sport as Parry obtained the break again to ship their conflict right into a match tie-break.
Within the third-set tie-break, the important thing second was Andreeva profitable 4 factors in from 3-2 as much as open a 7-2 lead. Main 9-5, Andreeva transformed her second match level to finish a significant comeback win over Parry.
After the match, Andreeva admitted she was pleasantly stunned about Murray´s submit on X. Additionally, the 16-year-old Russian stated she would have it printed.
“Actually I didn´t actually suppose that he would watch a match, then after he would tweet, he would remark one thing,” Andreeva stated after the match.
“Actually, I’ll attempt to print it out someway. I don´t know, I’ll put it in a body. I’ll deliver it all over the place with me. I’ll perhaps put it on the wall so I can see it daily (smiling). Actually I didn´t count on him to do something about this match, so…”
Within the Australian Open round-of-16, Andreeva performs in opposition to 2021 French Open champion Barbora Krejcikova.
