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11/9/10 7:17 PM | Johan Lindahl
Andy Murray is quite ready to carry on coach-less into 2011 if his ongoing search for a new mentor continues to drag on.
From the sounds of his public pronouncements, the Scot makes it appear that he's had little progress in replacing Miles MacLagan after a summer split and is in no hurry to get on with the job.
"It's a possibility," Murray said of playing into the new year starting in Perth January 1 with the Hopman Cup without an official coach in his corner. He says his current ad-hoc arrangement with Spain's Alex Corretja is fine for the moment.
Murray added that finding a coach at any cost is not a part of the plan. "If I like the way things are going and I feel like I'm improving, then I'm not scared of playing some tournaments on my own, trying out being on my own for a little bit.
"But I need to make sure I'm improving. If I'm not improving, then I'm not going to keep just trying to make it work without a coach. I guess we'll have to wait and see. There are a lot of things I need to improve. Some weeks I felt great moving on the court; some weeks not so good."
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Murray fears tennis calendar will shorten his career
ESPN staff
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Andy Murray has had a busy schedule this year
Profile: Andy Murray
Andy Murray has accused tennis organisers of shortening players' careers by overloading the ATP Tour schedule.
The world No. 4 has been involved in 18 tournaments this year - winning two of them - and has played 58 matches in the process.
Murray fears that being forced to compete so regularly, with mandatory tournaments and world ranking points to defend, will reduce the time he spends at the top of the game. He is proposing a longer off-season following the year's final grand slam, the US Open, which comes to a close in September.
"There's no time for you to take a break to get rid of an injury," Murray said. "Instead players end up playing through it and that actually shortens careers. There should be fewer mandatory tournaments because you get punished so much for being injured and I don't really think that's fair.
"If after the US Open you had two or three months when you could actually take time off to recover, players would have longer careers."
Murray's 59th clash of 2010 comes on Wednesday at the Paris Masters, where he takes on the dangerous David Nalbandian in round two. The Scot, who has never been beyond the quarter finals in Paris, has lost two of the three meetings between the players.
nadline , 11/10/10 3:18 PM