The Tennis Channel is showing a match between Andy Murray and Nicholas Almagro from Spain.
Murray wins the first set in a tiebreaker. Almagro is extremely talented but one wonders if he’s as mentally fit as Murray. I know, Murray continually talks negatively to himself and his coaches between points. But…when it’s point time, he’s all in and maybe has two frivolous errors every twenty-five points.
Almagro, as the match continues, oozes talent but, as the announcer says…’too often he just gets stuck in top gear too often.’ The match ended with Murray on top 7-6, 7-5.
‘He gets stuck too often in top gear.’
Kind of interesting if you think about it.
Maybe your game has four gears where #2 is your bread and butter…hardly ever miss…take it to the bank gear and #3 is when you have a ball or situation where you can amp it up a bit.
Almagro was facing match point and had a backhand that called for Gear 3…he amped it up to Gear 4 and missed wide. It was as if, in his mind, he thought going that big would earn him two points rather than one. All it earned him was a shower earlier than necessary.
Heckuva player, this Spaniard. Just a bit more shot tolerance and watch out.
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