Lu, who lost in the first round of Roland Garros to Novak Djokovic, had arrived at Wimbledon in good form after winning two grasscourt warm-ups events at Surbiton and Ilkley. It’s not nice having to play him.
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“So that is something I obviously try to learn from the French and try and start a little bit quicker at Wimbledon”.
“He will have his time and then it’ll be over”.
Pat Rafter won consecutive US Opens in the 1990s.
“I have had a few experiences of playing on this court”. I don’t know enough about these subjects, I’m not saying it will go back to that, but I didn’t think it was broken. Off court he’s brilliant.
He added: “The more I played, the more comfortable I got with it, the better I played”. Clay is not my best surface.
The British number one then changed the way he prepared for major tournaments, developed a strong team around him to offer expertise in all the right areas and, eventually aided and abetted by Ivan Lendl, was a much-improved player by the time London 2012 came along. “There are so many awesome players and to play one of those guys means a chance to be out there on a big court and I thrive in those conditions”, he said.
The match finished moments before the rain arrived, and Murray, who next plays Lu Yen-hsun of Chinese Taipei, was content with his performance.
Lu, the Taiwanese world number 76, had won 11 matches in a row on grass and began with a break of serve.
Second seed Murray came into his home grand slam on the back of winning a record fifth title at Queen’s and hit the ground running at the All England Club on day two, ruthlessly sweeping the left hander aside in an hour and 42 minutes.
Stan Wawrinka of Switzerland, centre, watches as Donna Vekic of Croatia plays Venus Williams of the USA during their Women’s Singles Match on day one of the Wimbledon Tennis Championships in London, Monday, June 27, 2016. He won two of them and reached the final of the other. He’s very experienced, he’s made the quarters here before and beat [Andy] Roddick.
“He plays well on the grass”. I started to hit my forehand better, started to get more free points off that.
Lu missed six months following elbow surgery, returning in May, and he has not had the luck of the draw at grand slams since.
Heather Watson is among those players still to finish their first-round matches and she will resume an early break down to Annika Beck in the deciding set. “But I have just come back from injury and that is why I made a decision to start at these small tournaments”. “Yeah, I did. In any tournament it’s important, when you have a chance to win a match quickly, to do it”, he cited.
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He said: “There seem to be a lot of people who I thought would be voting to stay in that are voting to leave”.
