"It was a disaster wasn't it?": Murray berates Wimbledon poster with vital omission

Former world number one Andy Murray has called Wimbledon’s controversial poster on social media a disaster.

The third Grand Slam of the year will be played from 03-16 July in London this year.

To create some much-needed hype ahead of the tournament, Wimbledon’s social media pages posted a picture showing the transformation of players from the past to the present.

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The poster received a lot of backlash because it featured players such as Jannik Sinner and Carlos Alcaraz, who are yet to achieve anything notable in the competition.

Murray was quoted in a report by Tennis 365 where he called the promotion a disaster and insisted that he is not calling it because he was not featured in the picture.

“It was a disaster, wasn’t it?” he said. “I don’t need to elaborate any more on it, it’s pretty obvious if you see the poster. I guess the players that are on the poster are ones that have had incredible careers and have been unbelievably successful at Wimbledon.

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“But elsewhere are some of the greatest players of all time. For me, Alcaraz and Sinner are unbelievable players but it just seems strange that they were all sort of behind them. I personally don’t really care that much about it. But I can see when you look at it’s like, ‘that does look a bit strange’. Me not being on it is certainly not a problem.”

Murray has a fabulous record while playing at Wimbledon where he won the competition twice, in 2013 when he defeated Serbia’s Novak Djokovic in the final with a score of 6–4, 7–5, 6–4, and in 2016 where he got the better of Canada’s Milos Raonic in the final with a score of 6–4, 7–6(7–3), 7–6(7–2).

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