Andy Murray after defeating Berrettini: “Things are going in the right direction”

Former world number one lost to Alex De Minaur a week ago at the Zhuhai Championships and so the win against Berrettini is a huge step forward for Murray.

“I feel like I'm hitting the ball pretty clean,” Murray said. “Things are going in the right direction.”

“Last week was a really big step for me in terms of how I felt and how I played in the matches,” Murray said. “Although I lost in the second round, I felt like I was playing tour-level tennis. I was competitive. I was in the match, even the one that I lost. Whereas I didn't feel that in the States. I didn't feel I was in the matches or playing great tennis.”

In the next round Murray meets fellow countryman Cameron Norrie and will hope to continue in a good form. He also spoke about the way he used to play matches before the injury and now. He admires he maybe does not have enough stamina to play a lot of matches in a short amount of time.

“In terms of the way that I'm moving now, in comparison to a couple of months ago, just my level of confidence in that is much, much higher than what it was a few months ago,” he said.

“Now I just need to try and get the matches, get them consistently, so that I'm used to playing three, four matches in a week,” Murray said.

“Right now, at this level, I don't know if I'm ready to do that or not. So the more I can get through these sort of matches like I did today, I'll get there a little bit quicker.”