Novak Djokovic vs Andy Murray Madrid 2022 Preview

“He’s the world No 1 and I’ve bought a steel hip,” Andy Murray joked forward of his fourth spherical conflict on the Madrid Open. He’ll play Novak Djokovic for the primary time in 5 years with their final conflict on clay coming six years in the past. The face to face has been dominated by Djokovic all through with a 25-11 result in the Serbian to date.

There was plenty of criticism over Murray getting his wildcard to Madrid at a time when he’s removed from his finest and appears unlikely to hit these heights once more. He has silenced a couple of of the doubters with two robust wins, including a 3 set win towards Denis Shapovalov to the one towards an admittedly rusty Dominic Thiem in spherical one. “My motion has been so significantly better than the place it was firstly of the yr and it makes an enormous distinction to my entire sport, it permits me to make totally different choices on the courtroom. My motion gained me that match tonight.” he mentioned on what has modified for him.

2022 hasn’t been an amazing yr for Djokovic to date with the No. 1 hanging on to his prime spot within the rankings regardless of failing to win a match to date. He’ll hope to play himself into higher kind right here and in Rome forward of a decisive French Open in terms of the grand slam depend. “[It was] simply usually [a] very, excellent efficiency. I’m very happy, contemplating that as much as right this moment I used to be not taking part in my finest tennis within the few tournaments that I performed this yr and nonetheless type of discovering my rhythm, discovering my groove.” he mentioned after beating Gael Monfils in straight units in his opener.

Djokovic has regarded sloppier towards gamers extra able to hitting him off the courtroom, one thing that doesn’t apply right here.. Even Murray at his finest has struggled on this matchup and so that you’d anticipate that it will likely be even harder in a slog on clay, even when the Brit is transferring the perfect on courtroom for a very long time.

Prediction – Novak Djokovic in straight units