Andy Murray declared himself fighting fit and content with his No.3 seeding for Wimbledon after concluding his warm-up for the defence of his singles crown with a straight-sets victory over Tommy Robredo at the BNP Paribas Classic exhibition event at London's exclusive Hurlingham Club, writes Stewart Fisher.
The 27-year-old, who won 6-2, 7-6 (7-1) in front of his new coach Amelie Mauresmo, will learn the identity of his first-round opponent in the draw at 10am today, but is sure to open the tournament on the Centre Court slot reserved for defending champions.
As well as declaring himself free of the back problems which hindered him after that victory 12 months ago, the Scot defended the All England Club's unique seeding policy, which takes players' grass court records into consideration. The result was that he is seeded two places higher than his world ranking of No.5.
"I think the way they do it is correct," he said, "although some people will probably say 'well you would say that'. So few tournaments are played on grass, which is a specialist surface. Some guys, like Robredo for example, will only play one tournament on grass every year. What they have done with the seedings helps; I would rather be seeded third than seeded fifth."
Why are you making commenting on The Herald only available to subscribers?
It should have been a safe space for informed debate, somewhere for readers to discuss issues around the biggest stories of the day, but all too often the below the line comments on most websites have become bogged down by off-topic discussions and abuse.
heraldscotland.com is tackling this problem by allowing only subscribers to comment.
We are doing this to improve the experience for our loyal readers and we believe it will reduce the ability of trolls and troublemakers, who occasionally find their way onto our site, to abuse our journalists and readers. We also hope it will help the comments section fulfil its promise as a part of Scotland's conversation with itself.
We are lucky at The Herald. We are read by an informed, educated readership who can add their knowledge and insights to our stories.
That is invaluable.
We are making the subscriber-only change to support our valued readers, who tell us they don't want the site cluttered up with irrelevant comments, untruths and abuse.
In the past, the journalist’s job was to collect and distribute information to the audience. Technology means that readers can shape a discussion. We look forward to hearing from you on heraldscotland.com
Comments & Moderation
Readers’ comments: You are personally liable for the content of any comments you upload to this website, so please act responsibly. We do not pre-moderate or monitor readers’ comments appearing on our websites, but we do post-moderate in response to complaints we receive or otherwise when a potential problem comes to our attention. You can make a complaint by using the ‘report this post’ link . We may then apply our discretion under the user terms to amend or delete comments.
Post moderation is undertaken full-time 9am-6pm on weekdays, and on a part-time basis outwith those hours.
Read the rules hereComments are closed on this article