If you need success on the doubles courtroom, robust communication and understanding as a crew are the essential foundations based on Jamie Murray and Bethanie Mattek-Sands.
Collectively, the pair has gained 16 main doubles titles. Just lately, they sat down collectively to open up on techniques, their goals for the season and the challenges of fixing companions in Episode 3 of Tennis United: Crosscourt.
“The most important factor when I’m selecting somebody to play with is how I vibe with them on an vitality and communication stage,” Mattek-Sands stated. “It doesn’t matter what then, in case you are down and out you may all the time give your self a second likelihood at any level within the match in case you are no less than speaking.”
Mentioned Murray: “I all the time wish to be in a secure partnership as a result of to have that continuity and course, the better it’s to construct that partnership. The success of the crew is how a lot you may come collectively.”
On recommendation for Murray, Mattek-Sands added: “Typically you get a bit of bummed in your mistake and it’s these moments when I’m taking part in towards you that I’m on the lookout for. If somebody misses and so they simply flip round, you might be like ‘rattling that didn’t matter to him, he’s coming at me the subsequent level.”
The ATP and WTA are teaming once more in 2021 for Tennis United: CrossCourt, a continuation of the award-winning digital content material collection initially launched in the course of the 2020 suspended season. The reimagined venture marks the primary main co-branded initiative to debut because the two excursions built-in advertising and marketing operations earlier this 12 months.
Tennis United: CrossCourt goes behind the scenes of life on tour by means of a collection of intimate one-on-one conversations between ATP and WTA stars. Spanning eight short-format episodes, gamers discover a spread of largely untouched topics from inside and past sport, providing followers a uncooked perspective on the experiences, pressures and privileges that make up life in skilled tennis.
The whole episode listing:
• Episode 1: Relationships (Gael Monfils & Elina Svitolina)
• Episode 2: Teaching (Felix Auger-Aliassime & Jennifer Brady)
• Episode 3: Doubles (Bethanie Mattek-Sands & Jamie Murray)
• Episode 4: Parenthood (Fabio Fognini & Elena Vesnina)
• Episode 5: Journey (Belinda Bencic & Grigor Dimitrov)
• Episode 6: Self-discipline (Hubert Hurkacz & Iga Swiatek)
• Episode 7: Locker Room (Andrey Rublev & Aryna Sabalenka)
