Murray discusses differences between football and tennis with Rashford: "if you put in the work yourself you solely can influence the outcome of the match"

Tuesday, 19 May 2020 at 15:53

Former World No.1 Andy Murray and Manchester United forward Marcus Rashford spoke recently about the differences between their respective sports (tennis and football) as well as the pressures between both.

They both went through the pros and cons of their respective sports with Murray in particular concluding that he prefers his sport as he is all in it for himself.

“One of the nice things about an individual sport is that the outcome of the match is solely reliant on you, so if you go out and have a great performance, the chances are that you win,” Murray told Rashford.

“In a team sport, you might play badly and the rest of your team plays great, and you still win. That’s where I feel like in the individual sport it puts quite a lot of pressure on. You put quite a lot of pressure on yourself to perform. But I guess in a team sport as well, you don’t want to let your fans down, you don’t want to let your teammates down as well.”

“I did love that and I still just love the team competitions in tennis a lot, but it is quite different because the losses as well that you have are maybe tougher because you don’t have really a group of people around you that are dealing with the same thing,” Murray continued.

“There are pros and cons I think to both, but I love the fact that in tennis if you put in the work yourself you solely can influence the outcome of the match. You don’t need to rely on other players as well.”

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