CAMELOT FANTASIES

I've read a lot of speculations today but I don't agree with any one of them. Unfortunately, Lendl and Andy are no longer on the same page. Andy goals and Lendl's goals are just not matching. And I am actually with Lendl with this one. He's a guy who won 8 Slams when tennis was seeing the golden age and he remained No. 1 for four years (270 weeks). So he basically lived on thriving on the individual success. Andy, on the other hand, is all about his country. His recent decision to dump MC and play DC speaks volume. In fact, since last year, I realized that his goals have changed and it's now more towards doing things for his country than it is anything else. It sounds noble but when it comes to tennis which is mainly an individual sport, it loses its meaning. Now I don't read everything Lendl says but I will be damned if he was okay with any of Andy's decision be it the surgery or giving priority to DC when he should be really focusing on improving his clay record.

This reminds me of Sampras so much since I'd supported him just as much. It was so easy to support him since his goals always remained the same and he never got off course no matter what. While he did play DC and won it too, it was never his priority and that's how it should be for a player who guns for higher things. Clearly Andy is not that person and Lendl just slowly became aware of it.

I am not particularly happy with Andy right now either. I support him because he's an individual tennis player to me first and I don't care which country he represents. I will watch him carefully this year and will observe how things go. Based on that, I'll be able to form a much better decision whether to continue to support him or not. I can't help but feel that Andy only wants to focus on certain tournaments that involves his country the most and even if it comes at the price of him sliding down the ranking. Since I don't care about DC or the country stuff, I am just finding it very hard to adjust his new goals, that is, if my speculations are true. That's not why I watch tennis.

I don't see Andy regretting his decision but on the other hand, Lendl must be at least a bit disappointed even if the decision, say, came from him finally.

Time will tell, of course.