Andy Murray Still Swears On Court

Written by: on 8th January 2013
AUSTRALIAN OPEN PRACTICE
Andy Murray Still Swears On Court

epa03527540 Andy Murray of Great Britain practices at Melbourne Park in Melbourne, Australia, 08 January 2013. Some players have arrived in Melbourne for the Australian Open Tennis Tournament, the first Grand Slam of the year, which commences on 14 January 2013. EPA/JULIAN SMITH AUSTRALIA AND NEW ZEALAND OUT  |

A week and one title into the 2013 season and Andy Murray is already rolling back on his reported “promise” to cut out swearing in hot moments on court. The Brisbane trophy holder has said that try as he might, he never promised to eliminate the R-rated backchat.

 

“I don’t really know how that will go, to be honest,” he said in reference to a recent interview in which he appeared to suggest that he would keep it clean on court, a sharp contrast to his habitual effing-and-blinding after missed shots and other errors of the game.

 

“A lot of times I get asked after matches about it (swearing). It can get picked up on the microphone or whatever. No-one has mentioned anything to me (in Brisbane) yet but the microphones at the Aussie Open are all around the court, so we’ll see.”

 

Murray suggests that when he lets his vocabulary erupt, it is of course in English, the international language of tennis and understood by every chair umpire in the world. Others using more esoteric tongues can easily get away with foul outbursts.

 

“Where it (the pledge to stop swearing) came from was when I got asked a question, I was doing an interview over the phone. I got asked about swearing on the court. I said ‘obviously I don’t mean to do it. I don’t want to do it. Sometimes you get frustrated and you do and obviously I will try to stop’.

 

“I didn’t make any promises or guarantees that I was going to. Then it came out that I’ve said this year I will stop swearing. What I also said was that a lot of players swear on the court and a lot of people say a lot worse things than me – in other languages. It doesn’t get picked up the same.

 

“So where I would obviously love to stop doing it, I try not to. But I can’t guarantee it.”

 

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