Andy Murray opens up about life in the spotlight: ‘I find it quite challenging’

Sir Andy Murray has done it all – and no, he doesn’t plan to retire just yet. The tennis player, who probably has a reinforced mantelpiece to carry those Olympic gold medals, Sports Personality awards and grand slam titles, says he still has plenty of goals still to achieve, if his body will let him.

Andy is wearing The Drive Collection from his signature AMC range during this year’s US Open, created to deliver a new standard in tennis performance clothing.

Mentally I feel pretty good, I’ve been playing quite well last week, which is positive. Healthwise, I actually feel OK but am having issues with cramping in the last three or four tournaments. I’m trying to get to the bottom of it. Most athletes have had it at some time and it can be down to getting the eating or hydration strategy wrong, or being more stressed than usual.

When it happened the first time, I made sure I was eating and drinking properly but it kept happening. Now we’re doing more testing and I’m doing sweat testing today.

My sports drink I have on court is made specifically based on my sweat testing so it is to see if anything has changed. Is there an underlying virus or anything, not too serious, in the background that could potentially have an impact?

Yeah, it does. There were certainly times in my early twenties when I didn’t enjoy it as much as I should have done – there are a lot of things that go into high-level sport.

When you are young you are thrust into the spotlight and some are better at handling it than others. I find it quite challenging.

Nowadays I’m a bit more specific about what I’m doing on the practice court or in the gym. When I was younger I could train a lot more. The specificity wasn’t as important, you could get more in.

I spend a