Eighthours wrote:TigaSefi wrote:Murray needs to work on his second serve!! 80Mph isn't gonna cut it. He'll either have to kick serve it or make it bounce hard and to the left and right of the court.
When Murray's first serve percentage is high, he's very hard to beat. When it's low (as was the case last night), his second serve is pretty easy to pick off.
More serving work required to make it more reliable, methinks.
I do agree, but he does have a very good first serve in terms of reliability. The problem from yesterday was that he was too tired to get the really hard ones on target, I don't think the wind helped either. Look at Federer's serving yesterday compared to the Wimbledon final, he was really inconsistent whereas in the Wimbledon final when he was a break point down he would pull out an ace, I didn't see that yesterday, I reckon this was due to the wind.
As you could see against Nadal, Murray became tired and lost his full on (120+mph) first serve towards the end. I think Murray needs serve endurance to be honest, because his serve is more than consistent enough when he is not tired.
Actually, I can see tiredness being a factor for Murray in the future. He runs soo much, and doing that throughout a Slam will make him very tired by the end. So he needs to learn how to beat people who not as good as him in 3 sets, this is one of Federer's greatest strengths, the way he flies through the early rounds. Murray is always going to be forced to use up a lot of energy in the semi's though (because he will be against Nadal or Federer most of the time), so this is just something he will have to get used to.