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11/20/11 7:56 PM | Johan Lindahl
Too much, too soon may be the problem for spoiled-rotten British tennis hopefuls - at least that's the opinion of the country's main ATP success story Andy Murray.
The world No. 3, who will be defending his position at the World Tour Finals against resurgent Roger Federer, has told the Daily Mail that after experiencing the no-nonsense Spanish development system when he trained in Barcelona as a teenager, the Brits are living on easy street with little to show by way of results.
"Do you know that in Spain, at 18, your funding stops," Murray told the London tabloid. "From there, you get nothing that you cannot earn for yourself.
"We're funding guys to ages 27, 28 - while in the most successful tennis nation in the world you're basically on your own. Maybe there's something in that."
The 24-year-old Scot was sent to Spain to develop his game and has become the lone British player of his generation as a result. "When I went to Spain, from the best players to the worst players we were all taught the same way, all given the same drills. They had a structure and they stuck to it.
"Go to our national center and you've got 10 different nationalities all coaching a different way. If we don't get the results straight away, we panic and change direction.
"There is no confidence in our technique, no sense of sticking to an idea, no identity, no consistency in the way we teach tennis, so naturally there is no British style."
Murray begins his World Tour Finals campaign on Monday.
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