Murray downs Kyrgios, to play Tsonga in quarterfinals

In a scathing appraisal of the gifted Canberran’s game, former world No 1 McEnroe questioned Kyrgios’ maturity and commitment.

Tsonga fought back from two sets down to prevail 6-7 (3/7) 3-6 7-6 (7/5) 6-2 19-17 in a contest held over from Saturday night, saving a match point in the 32nd game of the fifth set. The rest of the match was pretty pathetic.

“He’s a really, really good grass court player, very, very unsafe”, Murray told reporters. “I try my best to win my matches and go as deep as possible”.

“I know that I have the talent to do good things”. “I just lost in the fourth round”.

She said: “I felt like I was really dialed in, focused today, yesterday, and a little bit of the match before just towards the end”. I’ve got experience, but it comes down to laying it all out there and competing for a long time.

He said, as he has before, that he doesn’t love tennis.

“One week I’m pretty motivated to train and play”, he said.

“I got exhausted in every match. If he plays well, I’m not on my game, I can lose that match for sure”. “But I don’t know what else to do without it”.

“I think if I play at the level I am playing at the moment, I give myself a chance”, he said.

Two of those matches came at Wimbledon, with Murray defeating the Frenchman in the quarter-finals in 2010 and the semi-finals two years later.

When told that McEnroe suggested he needs to get a coach to help further his career, he responded: “I don’t know”.

“I obviously like playing the game, it’s a massive part of my life”.

“He doesn’t know what it takes to be a top-10 professional to win grand slams”.

He wrote in his BBC column: ” When I was younger it was much more hard to stop myself getting carried away with how I was playing or who I was playing.

“A lot of people in the locker room now believe they can win it”.

Murray said: “I thought I played well”.

It was merely well-played dinner theater with Kyrgios on his best behavior, even laughing and chatting during the changeover after a blazing Murray forehand hit him in the heart.

A four-set victory for Murray at Flushing Meadows looks likely to be repeated at the All England Club because there are signs of Kyrgios living up to his potential.

“This is not doing our sport any good”.

“But if you want to continue to get better, then you speak and listen to as many people as you can and take on board the things you think will help you.”

‘It was all working and was a great performance, but that was because he wasn’t feeling a lot of pressure from Kyrgios.

“I don’t think anyone’s going to have the crowd on their side when they go out there against Andy”, he said. He’s been fined for an obscenity, directed the R-word toward his box for a perceived lack of support and got into a spirited semantics argument with a reporter.