US Open 2021: Andy Murray - "Lost all respect for Tsitsipas"
Medical time off? Extensive toilet breaks? Not Andy Murray , Andrea Petkovic and Angelique Kerber's thing.
by tennisnet.com
last edit: Aug 31, 2021, 07:37 am
It's been almost two and a half years since Angelique Kerber added the term "Drama Queen" to the great tennis dictionary. The player to whom this designation was coined was supposed to win the titles in Canada and at the US Open in the course of the 2019 season. With a lot, a lot of drama. Irina Camelia Begu did not have that big against Andrea Petkovic in the first round of the US Open 2021. But Petko has also registered that the Romanian took a break from treatment. Not benevolent. Especially since she brooded during the break. Which was not conducive to their game in the meantime.
That, in turn, is probably the point of the increasingly frequent breaks in play, which the generation around Boris Becker up to the Big Four Federer, Nadal, Djokovic and Murray neither knew nor used. He had lost all respect for Stefanos Tsitsipas, said the Briton after his five-set loss to number three in the tournament. In addition to his now standard toilet break (which Murray also indulged in), Tsitsipas also received treatment late in the match. That was not well received by the Scots or the audience. Murray discussed with referee Gerry Amstrong until deep into the fifth set. In vain, of course.
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Kerber, Zverev, Petkovic are "old school"
Murray is, as Andrea Petkovic would put it, still old school. Which she and Angelique Kerber have also outgrown. Basically, you will always continue to play, even if you have broken a finger, said Petkovic after reaching the second round. Kerber is also foreign to such games, after all, she knows the candidates who tried again and again. Of course, you can never say whether an opponent is really injured, says Kerber. And there are also good reasons for going to the toilet.
Alexander Zverev put it in a nutshell before the start of the tournament: When asked about the miserable breaks from Tsitsipas in Cincinnati, the German number one urgently suggested a revision of the rules. Because that wouldn't set any limits for the players at the moment. Andy Murray, it seems, would like to be available for a spontaneous revision of the rulebook.
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