Andy Murray is coping well with the break from tennis: “I can play golf and go to the gym whenever I want. I feel really free”

Nostalgic for the competition, for the anxiety of the race, for the training routine? Far from it. Andy Murray has revealed that the way he is experiencing retirement from tennis is “the exact opposite” of what he expected. “Since I stopped, I feel really free and I have a lot of time to do what I want,” the thirty-seven-year-old British, three-time Grand Slam champion, who ended his prestigious career, told BBC Radio 4’s Today programme. after the Paris Olympics. “I can dedicate time to my children and have free time to play golf or go to the gym whenever I want – he added -. It’s really beautiful and I didn’t expect it. I expected that retirement would be hard and that I would miss tennis to the point of making me want to return to the tour. So far it has happened exactly the opposite of what I thought”, explains Murray who reveals how “in recent years” there was “always a sense of guilt associated with what I did”, in reference to the distance from his family. The other focus is on the always very high expectations that surrounded him. “It was really hard for me to reach the final at Wimbledon and at the same time be criticized for the work I had done. Maybe it wasn’t like that, but based on my perception I felt attacked even when I was doing very well, and that was quite difficult.”