"If some of these matches were played last year I wouldn’t have won them": Murray survives another 'brutal match' with different mindset

Andy Murray won yet another close 3-setter and the Brit admitted that he wouldn't have won this or many matches this year had they been played last year.

Murray's improvement from last year to this year is very visible. He's had some pretty impressive wins this year and a lot of it has to do with the work he did in the offseason. Last night's win over Etcheverry from Argentina saw him lose the first set 4-6 but then came back to win it 6-1 6-4. It was a good effort overall and he recognized that after the match:

“In some of the matches I managed to win this year, I felt like I was fortunate in some of them, whereas today I really had lots of chances in that third set. I wasn’t getting them and was getting really frustrated. He was coming up with some big serves at times but I also felt like I made some poor decisions as well. The more chances that went by the more you think about it."

He added:

“I did really well to keep going in the end… Another brutal match and glad I managed to get through it.”

He was asked to compare this to last year and he agree that most of these matches would be losses last year:

“I don’t think it is a coincidence, but last year I lost a lot of them. I was talking to my team about it, just saying like the law of averages… this can’t keep going. Once I won one I did feel like I would start to feel more comfortable in those situations. Thankfully that’s been the case. Obviously winning all seven, I’m aware that at some stage I’m going to lose one of them."