Andy Murray has given his verdict on England\u2019s World Cup hopes ahead of their first knock-out game against DR Congo \u2013 as he stepped into dangerous territory while speaking at an IBM event at Wimbledon.<\/p>\n
Tennis365 were among a select band of invited guests for an event taking place on No.1 Court at the All England Club, with two-time Wimbledon champion Murray reflecting on his career in an extended interview.<\/p>\n
We will be running extracts of Murray\u2019s<\/a> thoughts in the coming days and when he was asked about England\u2019s World Cup hopes, he was quick to back Thomas Tuchel\u2019s men to make progress.<\/p>\n Murray got into hot water when he was quoted as saying he would support \u2018anyone but England\u2019 in a previous World Cup, with that throwaway comment used as a weapon against the Scot for years to come.<\/p>\n So he didn\u2019t hesitate to back England to come through their World Cup game against DR Congo, and he also expects them to secure a big win.<\/p>\n Andy Murray and Roger Federer set to play Stan Wawrinka\u2019s final-ever tennis match<\/a><\/p>\n Andy Murray urges Wimbledon not to make a controversial change after Ben Shelton\u2019s complaints<\/a><\/p>\n \u201cEngland will win and I\u2019m going for 3-0,\u201d declared Murray in an emphatic prediction.<\/p>\n He also predicted some spectators might break away from the tennis at Wimbledon, as he suggested Wimbledon village will be packed with football fans who will break away from the action at the All England Club.<\/p>\n \u201cWimbledon village is going to be pretty lively when the World Cup matches are on,\u201d declared Murray.<\/p>\n \u201cWhen you are playing at this event, you don\u2019t get a chance to see a lot of what is going on around the grounds. So people on the hill who are cheering on the players and everything that goes on around Wimbledon.<\/p>\n \u201cIt\u2019s been fun for me to come back and to Wimbledon and \u00a0see a slightly different side to it over the last couple of years.<\/p>\n \u201cMy advice to anyone who comes to watch this event is head up to Wimbledon village when you are finished. There are some good bars up there and it\u2019s a great place to be when the tournament is on.\u201d<\/p>\n Murray was also asked whether he would consider making a tennis comeback after 44-year-old Serena Williams made a Wimbledon return, but he admitted that dream has long since passed.<\/p>\n \u201cI would have loved to have carried on playing, but my body was in bits by the end of my career, so that wasn\u2019t really an option,\u201d he added. \u201cI play golf now and that is a lot less challenging for the body.\u201d<\/p>\n In the next extract of our audience with Murray at Wimbledon, the two-time champion will take a deep dive into the issue of injuries in tennis, as he suggests why so many of the game\u2019s top stars are suffering from arm and shoulder problems.<\/p>\n READ NEXT: Andy Murray announces new tennis project inspired by Bryson DeChambeau and Kevin Pietersen<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n The post Andy Murray predicts England\u2019s World Cup result and he has crucial advice for any Wimbledon visitor<\/a> appeared first on Tennis365<\/a>.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Andy Murray has given his verdict on England\u2019s World Cup hopes ahead of their first knock-out game against DR Congo \u2013 as he stepped into dangerous territory while speaking at an IBM event at Wimbledon. Tennis365 were among a select band of invited guests for an event taking place on No.1 Court at the All […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2417","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2417","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2417"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2417\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2417"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2417"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2417"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}More Tennis News<\/h2>\n