Murray says negative comments motivate him

In a recent interview with Metro UK, former world number 1, Andy Murray spoke about how he saw an incident with Mats Wilander.

Former world number 1, 3-time Grand Slam champion, 2-time Olympic champion and one of the greatest players of all-time, Andy Murray is trying to make a comeback to the ATP Tour after he was out for some time. Although, he already managed to win the title after his return, the Scot is still not in the form he used to be before, and in the opinion of some people, he won't be able to come back again. 7-time Grand Slam champion, Mats Wilander made a statement which suggested that Andy Murray might be taking wild-cards from young players which deserve the chance to show their skills. Now, Murray reacted when he said:

"I think anything like that it gives short-term motivation, it helps," said Murray. "I don’t think longer term, like in a month’s time, that’s necessarily something that I will be thinking about but off the back of the French Open and kind of how I was feeling physically since the US Open, I properly went and had a think about things and did some testing and stuff."

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"I did an interview a couple of days ago with Daniela Hantuchova and she was asking me what was still motivating me, why do you want to get back in shape, and it was something as simple as I got on this body fat percentage scale thing, and the readout that I got from that I wasn’t happy with it," Murray admitted.

"And a little thing like that, I was like, right, I can get myself in much better shape than I’m in just now. I’ve worked hard to get to this point but I can do better. I could make sure I’m eating better, I can make sure I’m stronger in the gym, and I guess with an extended offseason, it’s going to allow me to do that."

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"Usually, when it’s only four or five weeks long, that can be tricky to make big gains in that time. But if it’s, for me, going to be potentially 10-12 weeks, that’s the length of time a boxer would have to train for a big fight and you can get yourself in great shape in that time," Murray said.

"So that’s what I’m working towards and that’s something that off the back of the French Open and then having some testing done that I wasn’t particularly happy with, that was kind of enough to just change my mentality enough and just focus on what’s really important, what I can do to get back to where I want to get to."