"I still have ambitions" - Murray after coming up short in Doha
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Andy Murray came up short in the final of the 2023 Qatar Open in Doha, losing to Daniil Medvedev, but the British player was happy about the result.
It was an incredible week at the 2023 Qatar Open for Murray as he took on some tricky players and defeated them en route to the final at the ATP 250 tournament in Doha.
He's not done yet, and he has goals that he wants to achieve and that he'll try to achieve in the coming months, which his run into the final of the Qatar Open just proved.
"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, ten years ago."
"But I, yeah, 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, which, I don’t know, I think I’m like 75 away from that."
Murray is doing a really good job of keeping himself motivated, but most of it comes from his pure passion for tennis. He simply loves the game, and he's still willing to really do all the things necessary to keep it going.
He knows that he likely won't win the trophies he once used to be winning anymore, and that he won't climb to the World No. 1 position in the rankings, but he just loves competing.
"There [are] little things that you can do to keep yourself motivated. Part of it is seeing how far I can go with, well, the physical limitation that I have. You know, like I didn’t know how much I was going to be able to play or if I’d be able to compete at this level again."
