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[Mark]

Andy Murray has hit back at Greg Rusedski and other Sky pundits for suggesting that he should play more aggressively against the top players.

Yeah, who are these 'experts'? Barry Cowan? Greg Rusedski? I think I know more about tennis than Barry and Greg. I work very hard with my coaching team to come out with the right game-plan. I've been told a lot of times that I'm very astute.

You don't get to be No 2 in the world at anything if you're one-dimensional. If I go out at the O2 Arena playing ultra-aggressive and lose all three of my matches, people would say, 'What are you doing?

Regardless of what people think, if I don't win a major tournament in my career I will still have enjoyed the way I played. I think it's different to what most other players are doing.

Murray will take on Roger Federer at the O2 Arena on Tuesday, following Monday's group B matches.

In other news: Andy Murray rapping (1 audio)

Andy Murray agreed to add his vocal talents to a song named 'Autograph' by Bob and Mike Bryan.

Andy Murray rapping

[Mark]

"if I don't win a major tournament in my career I will still have enjoyed the way I played. "

I always suspected that he didn't play more aggressively because he wouldn't enjoy his tennis as much. It's his whole life, so if changing his game style would remove the fun out of tennis then fair enough.

[Shooting Star]

Yeah! And Barry! Well obvs not!

[Mark]

I'm a counter-puncher and I like to let the other player attack and make the errors... I can imagine I would find tennis less enjoyable if I changed to an aggressive game style.

[Elly]

Can't fault the guy for playing in the style that's enjoyable for him.  If, at the end of his career, he's happy with all he's achieved, then that's the important thing, even though it may be frustrating for others.

[Annie Binannie]

I say good on him! You do things in life for you, no one else is going to, and like Elly said if he looks back at the end of his career and his happy with what he got, then fantastic, not many people can say that. He's a very smart and talented guy - he knows what he is doing and clearly something is working for him otherwise he wouldn't have achieved what he has this past year. A big well done to him!

[Lurking]

His way of saying "If I weren't British you wouldn't rate me at all", which is probably true quite frankly.

Let's have a closer look at the pundits team on British stations...

The Sky team includes :

British players, which pre Murray were almost universally Serve and Volleyers who didn't know a thing about defensive play.
Peter Fleming, former doubles player, so bound to be pro offensive Tennis.
Pat Cash, former Serve Volleyer and so bound to pro offensive Tennis.
Shiras, who got his best results on Grass and so bound to be pro offensive Tennis.

BBC also adds :

McEnroe, former Serve Volleyer and so bound to be pro offensive Tennis.
Becker, prefers the Serve Volleying playing style.

Wilander is about the only naturally defensive player I've seen on British stations, correct me if I'm wrong, and he only turned up for RG.

You've also got a feast of commentators who've spent so much time around these guys that they are influenced by there opinions and so puppet them as facts, it's the same in Australia and in the USA from the generation which produced commentators so the English speaking world is naturally biased against defensive Tennis so it's hardly a surprise there's universal viewpoint that he needs to dramatically change his gamestyle to win a Slam.

[nestingus]

Remember Game Set and Mats?! LOL

That was sooo lame! They used to talk about it all day of Eurosport at RG, ask him about three really easy questions which he answered really badly, and then that was it!