Murray creates perfect player

Transcript - Murray's perfect player

ROB: Go on, run us through the composite player. You had what? Whose forehand did you have?

MURRAY: I had Karlovic *pause*

ROB: Karlovic's serve.

MURRAY: I'll start from serve then move up the court. Take Karlovic's serve for obvouse reasons - best serve ever. You can't dispute that. Then I took Nadal's forehand, so my player is now a left-hander.

ROB: Yep.

MURRAY: Erm, just because I think its the best serve in tennis. Sorry, not the best serve... Karlovic does have the best serve in tennis but for me Federer has the [corrects himself] Nadal! What am I doing?! Can you start this again?

ROB: Yeah. So Andy, earlier on we were talking about your... Go on, so your composite player... let's start with the serve.

MURRAY: Karlovic's serve because he has the best serve and there's no question.

ROB: No question. Forehand?

MURRAY: I'm taking Nadal's forehand because he has the final of Wimbledon with it, won the French Open, won tournaments on the hard and he's still only 21 and I think his forehand is the major reason for that. Not that the rest of his game isn't great but his forehand is pretty special.

ROB: OK, so we've got. So we've done the serve, we've done the forehand, who's backhand are we going to take?

MURRAY: I'll take my backhand. I have to have one shot and I'd probably take my backhand.

ROB: What if you don't have necessarily a shot but a good statistic, would you have backhander over, for example, your return of serve?

MURRAY: That was one thing we didn't put in actually.

ROB: So do you want to swap return of serve for backhand?

MURRAY: Err... no.

ROB: No? So you're going to stay with yourself for backhand, so who are we going to add in for return of serve? And it could be anybody, it doesn't have to be a current player remember, you could go for Agassi for example.

MURRAY: I think Agassi has the best aggressive return but he got aced a lot when he played. So I'm trying to think of someone who didn't necessarily get aced, but returning second serves I'd take Agassi. Returning first serves... well, I mean there is quite a few guys who play now that I don't know enough about. Federer obviously returns well, Djokovic returns well, Davydenko, me, David Ferrer, there's quite a few guys who return well so I'm not quite sure on that one yet.

ROB: Yep. What else are we going to work in? Shall we have, er...

MURRAY: Who else? Forehand, backhand, volleys.. I'm taking Edberg's volleys. I would like the movement or the balance of Federer.

ROB: What about mentality?

MURRAY: Sort of Federer. I think, like, in terms of like Federer's whole game is the best by quite a long way. You know a lot of guys serve well but maybe don't return well, he serves very well, returns very well and obviously his forehand and backhand are awesome as well. But yeah, in terms of the way he moves and stuff on the court and his composure and the way he deals with stuff, he's probably the best at that.

I'd take Steffi Graf's slice backhand.

ROB: Well remembered.

MURRAY: I think she has the best slice backhand. Did I say Edberg's volley already?

ROB: You said Edberg's volleys, yeah.

MURRAY: And I'll take John McEnroe's hand.

(transcript typed up by Mark)