Murray has really improved his pushing game. I mean it was good before but wow he managed to beat Djokovic finally.
He is getting better about generating pace for purposes of active attack, but he has spent a long time absorbing pace for purposes of eliciting errors with his great feel for the ball. So, it's nice to see him crank up his ground strokes and do some actual killing as opposed to indirectly encouraging his opponent's death because attack tennis is decisive and fast whereas entrapment tennis is necessarily slower and protracted and if we're going to slow the points down I would rather watch serve and volley played with less powerful rackets instead of power pong with liberal amounts of defense being tactically dominant.The posts by Darrin and Funbun sum it up well. I'm getting tired of seeing so
many threads/posts about Murray being labeled as a "pusher". It's really absurd.
There are NO pushers at that level.
Is Andy Murray the greatest pusher of all time? No, because pushers don't even make an ATP qualifying draw, much less win the US Open.
At least Lleyton managed to finish the point by himself instead of waiting and provoking and UE from his opponentsYou've obviously never heard of Lleyton Hewitt.
The posts by Darrin and Funbun sum it up well. I'm getting tired of seeing so
many threads/posts about Murray being labeled as a "pusher". It's really absurd.
There are NO pushers at that level.
At least Lleyton managed to finish the point by himself instead of waiting and provoking and UE from his opponents
Did you watch the match yesterday? Murray kept pushing the ball from his baseline to the middle of Djoko's!!!!
23-25 hits rallies almost all concluded by an UE
How about you play Andy Murray and let's see who becomes the pusher.
Did you even watch the match? Murray's a counterpuncher, not a pusher.
There are NO pushers at that level.
Murray has arguably the most all-around power of anyone on tour. Serves up to the high 130's. Apparently has the world record forehand. And he has hit many backhands over 100 MPH.
Do you know how big Murray is?
He looks pretty big in the photo below.
You kind of have to play defensive when the wind is making you unable to control your shots, but is that pushing? No way...he just hit with higher percantage shots. Slices, topspin, etc...
He knows how to play inside tornadoes, that's for damn sure.
It's all relative. He's the equivalent of a pusher at pro level. He's capable of being more aggressive, but he chooses to push a large percentage of the time.The posts by Darrin and Funbun sum it up well. I'm getting tired of seeing so
many threads/posts about Murray being labeled as a "pusher". It's really absurd.
There are NO pushers at that level.