A. Murray - 19.01.2013

A. MURRAY/R. Bernakis
6-3 6-4 7-5

Q.  Roger talked about the year end Championships, maybe he'd like to see the courts speeding up in general on the tour.  Maybe the fans would like to see more volleying.  What are your thoughts as a fan and a player on the courts?
ANDY MURRAY:  Yeah, to be honest, I don't know exactly.  I think from most of the people I speak to, they enjoy watching the game the way it is now.  Maybe there's not much variety in the styles of play, but there's a lot of reasons for that.  I don't think it's just the court surface.  I think, you know, the strings, the balls have definitely slowed down.  I think rather than necessarily changing the court speed, speeding the balls up can make a big difference as well.
Sometimes variety in the courts is good.  I just think it's important for the players in advance to know what the speed of the court is going to be.  Sometimes, at some events, one year it's lightning quick, and then the next year it's been one of the slowest courts on the tour.  It's impossible to prepare for that.
Provided everyone knows what the speed of the courts are likely to be, then I think it's fine to make some adjustments to that.

Q.  You enjoy going forward personally?
ANDY MURRAY:  Yeah, it's something that isn't particularly easy to be because of the speed of the players these days and how good guys pass.  But it's something I work on daily in practice.
You know, if there comes a time or surface where you need to do it    you know, I played Nalbandian in Paris when it was extremely fast, and I played serve and volley for a majority of the second set and third set of that match because that was what the court needed.
So it's something that I practice.

Q.  You talked about being encouraging of more blood testing in tennis.  After seeing the Armstrong interview, have your views on that evolved further?
ANDY MURRAY:  Not really.  I only saw the first part of it yesterday.  Everything that everyone knew already was just kind of confirmed.  That really hasn't changed my stance on it.  I think it's something that all sports are now trying to improve their doping controls and make it better, you know, make sure that every sport's as clean as possible.
If that's more blood testing or the biological passports, you know, that's something we need to do and improve in tennis, as well.

Q.  When Novak was here yesterday he said he'd only been blood tested once in the last six or seven months.  Can you tell us how much you've been blood tested over the past 12 months.
ANDY MURRAY:  I'd say four to six times every year.  I mean, I'm not sure exactly how many.  The last time I had a blood test done was in Paris.  And then once every year I do my own sort of blood testing at the end of each year to make sure you're not low on iron, you know, or vitamins or whatever just as a checkup really.
But, yeah, I'd say four to six times a year.