"It will go with a strong playing field" - Murray eases worries about Wimbledon

| by Drew Tate

Andy Murray does not believe Wimbledon will be affected by the rankings points expecting a very strong field this year.

Playing his first grass event this year, Murray opened well in Surbiton and following the match he was asked about the event that will begin not long from now on the courts fairly close to Surbiton. He explained that he doesn't see Wimbledon not going ahead with a strong field:

“My belief is Wimbledon will go ahead and have an extremely strong player field. Removing the points, if it doesn’t stop players from playing then I don’t think it’s a great move from the ATP because they’ve taken the points away and everyone’s still showing up. I don’t think it’s a great move from that perspective."

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He continued:

“A lot of the players are frustrated and didn’t want that to happen. I think most and the majority of the players – certainly the ones that I’ve spoken to – felt like there should have been some response from the ATP. My feeling is that it would have been better to make a move or negotiate something that’s going to be beneficial for the future of the tour. I don’t know, something that would involve having a seat at the table in future grand-slam discussions over rules or prize-money distribution, those sorts of things, which recently that hasn’t been the case.”

Time will tell who is right but it's certainly hard to expect that the majority of players will boycott Wimbledon.

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