Boulter, Evans, Draper & Norrie continue British challenge.'Maybe I need to accept the deep runs and everything that I felt I'm capable of, they might not be there.' 'It's obviously disappointing to not play how you would like. 'It's unbelievably challenging to play at the highest level,' he said. So I’m happy with my progress.Murray, ranked 37th, has not reached the last 16 of a major since resuming his career after hip surgery in 2019. “The confidence I get from beating, hopefully, top players and stuff like that. “I think the exciting thing with me is that there’s so much development to come: physically, mentally, the more I play at this level, the more I get used to it,” Draper said. He will have a tough opener against Emil Ruusuvuori, who played a brilliant match to defeat him at Queen’s Club, on his US Open debut. “Just same goal, to try make the second week again and then go from there, but it’s kind of seeing the draw and seeing the other guys out there it’s absolutely packed, it is so strong, so I’m gonna have to keep progressing and keep playing at an even higher level to hang with these guys.”ĭraper also continues his steady rise up the rankings after reaching his first Masters 1000 quarter-final in Montreal, which he followed up with another quarter‑final in Winston‑Salem, defeating Stefanos Tsitsipas and Dominic Thiem, one of his role models. “Nothing really changes too much,” said Norrie, who faces Benoît Paire in the first round and he has a fair chance of another deep run. Despite how much has changed in his ranking and performances, Norrie remains committed to ensuring he carries himself exactly the same as when his rise began.

Since then he has reached the final in Los Cabos and a Masters 1000 semi-final in Cincinnati. Norrie has only continued to flourish since the major milestone of reaching the Wimbledon semi‑finals in July. The complexion of British men’s tennis today could not be more different, with five men directly entered in the main draw: the No 7 seed Cameron Norrie, the No 20 seed Dan Evans, Murray, Jack Draper and Kyle Edmund, who is in the main draw with a protected ranking.Ĭameron Norrie is the No 7 seed for the US Open after reaching the semi-finals at Wimbledon but is staying grounded. I didn’t really feel like that, from my memory, after the match.”īy the end of 2012, Murray was the only British men’s player in the top 230. After Wimbledon in 2013, I felt kind of exhausted and flat. I didn’t feel like going wild and celebrating and that sort of stuff. “I was very proud of myself, I felt very relaxed in that moment. Am I good enough? Am I fit enough? And am I mentally strong enough?”Īfter his victory and his media rounds, Murray returned to the silent, empty court as he processed his success. “A lot of what I’d achieved in my career up to that point it felt, to me anyway, kind of irrelevant because of the questions I’d continued to get asked about winning slams. “I’d been put under a lot of pressure to try and achieve that. “At the time, that was a huge moment for me,” he said. He had arrived in the final against Novak Djokovic having lost all four of his previous grand slam finals, doubts swirling in his head. Ten years on from his first grand slam triumph at Flushing Meadows in 2012, Murray looked back on the breakthrough as a “huge moment” in his career.

Murray will start his 2022 US Open campaign on Monday against Argentina’s Francisco Cerundolo, the 24th seed.

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