Australian Open 2022: ‘He's still making big strides’ - Tim Henman tipping Andy Murray for deep run at Wimbledon

Tim Henman believes there are plenty of memorable moments to come for Andy Murray and believes he can reach the second week of Grand Slams this year — with his best chance likely to be at Wimbledon. The three-time Grand Slam champion was hard on himself after losing in straight sets to Taro Daniel in the second round of the Australian Open, having recorded an impressive five-set win over Nikoloz Basilashvili in the previous round.

Ad/> Afterwards, Murray raised doubts about whether he would be Melbourne again in 2023, but after years of injury problems — which finally seem to be a thing of the past — Henman has put that down to him being “his own harshest critic” shortly after defeat, and believes he is making “big strides” in moving back towards his best. Australian Open men‘I think we’ll still see him next year’: Konta on Murray’s future22/01/2022 AT 15:47 “I really feel that Murray's moving in the right direction and he'll continue to put in the hard work,” Henman told Eurosport.

“Fingers crossed he doesn't get any setbacks with injuries, and I'm sure you know, there's going to be a lot more big moments on court for Andy Murray. /> “Now he's starting to build consistently, he might not always be having the results that he wishes and then the expectations that he's got.

But for me, the important element is that he's not having interruptions to his training, to his tournament schedule. “This is a long year and to have already been in a final [the Sydney Classic]l, he's played plenty of tennis, he's got matches under his belt, I'm sure he can bounce back from this pretty rapidly”.