Andy Murray ‘diagnoses’ Mito Pereira: ‘What makes him nervous is the possibility of winning a prestigious event in the sport he loves’

The search for explanations of what happened to Mito Pereira on the last hole of the Championship, the second major of the season, in which he was able to immortalize himself in the history of golf, has not stopped. It starts with the native of Pirque, extends to his psychologist and, now, it also includes recognized specialists from other disciplines. One of them is tennis player Andy Murray who alludes to the Chilean during a discussion with his colleague Mardy Fish, regarding the decision that Wimbledon does not award points for the world ranking, due to the blocking by the organizers of Russian and Belarusian tennis players within the framework of the invasion of Ukraine.

Murray defends the thesis according to which the prestige conferred by a triumph on the London lawn is much more relevant than the points it grants for the world ranking. It is in this context that he refers to golf, one of the sports he claims to follow, and, above all, to the record of the Chilean’s participation in last week’s contest, in which he finished third. position.

“I prefer to play for points, absolutely, but that’s neither the beginning nor the end. Do you think the best golfers would still be playing the Masters if there were no points? Would Mito Pereira have preferred to win the championship and not finish third? I could be wrong, but I believe that no tennis player serving for a Grand Slam title, no footballer who has taken a penalty in a World Cup penalty shoot-out, or no golfer playing 18th hole of a major tournament was not about scoring points,” he said.

It is in this line that Murray confines to the diagnosis of the experience lived by Pereira. Even, he is encouraged to slip in a thesis. “What makes them nervous, in my opinion, is the prospect of winning a historic and prestigious event in the sport they love and have trained for most of their lives, without thinking about ranking points. “, laid.

In this context, extrapolating the analysis to his specialty, he launches his postulate on what should happen in the third Grand Slam of the season, even without the contestation of units usually precious for the classification. “I think the players will reflect that on the courts at Wimbledon. “, adventure.