Andy Murray's 800-win goal: How realistic is it ahead of Indian Wells? And how long could it take?

Andy Murray has said that one of his goals is to reach 800 singles wins – but how likely is he to achieve it and where would that place him in the all-time standings? Murray has six wins to his name in the 2023 season, all in deciding sets, including four in a row at the Qatar Open where he lost in the final to Daniil Medvedev. Ad At his peak Murray won 78 matches in 2016 and 71 in 2015, but after two hip surgeries he is not hitting those numbers any longer. Last year he won 26 matches and in 2021 he won 15.

ATP Indian WellsIndian Wells: Schedule, draw, seeds, prize money plus Djokovic and Nadal updates07/03/2023 AT 11:03 With 77 more wins needed to get to 800, will Murray make it? What has Murray said? Murray, 35, has achieved almost everything in his career: winning three Grand Slams, getting to world No. 1, two Olympic golds, winning the ATP Finals and every Masters event except two (one of which is Indian Wells, which he plays this week). But still on his to-do list is to reach 800 match wins.

“I have goals. I think it’s important to have goals and targets and some of those goals are different to maybe what they were five, 10 years ago,” he said at the Qatar Open last month where he took his total to 723. “But I still have ambitions of winning tournaments and having deep runs in major events, winning a certain number of matches in my career.

I’d like to try to get to 800 match wins. “There are little things that you can do to keep yourself motivated. Part of it is seeing how far I can go with the physical limitation that I have.