LTA’s Scott Lloyd has a bold plan to boost performance, but some think successes of the past decade has been squandered
As the best eight players in men’s singles gathered in London this weekend for the ATP’s end-of-season jamboree, the home of tennis again was the genial host in the background. It is like giving a party for your neighbours, but not being allowed to drink the champagne.
It is four years since Andy Murray beat Novak Djokovic to win the title, when he drove his body to the limit to celebrate his arrival at No 1 in the world. When the Nitto ATP finalists were posing behind face masks at the O2 Arena on Friday, Murray, now 33 and in the autumn of his career, was practising at the National Tennis Centre at Roehampton, grinding still to eke a little more out of his talent.
