Dear Andy Murray, qué pasa?

Poor Andy Murray, it looks like his slump this year is much worse than the 2010 post-Aussie Open slump, especially in his head.  

After the 2010 Aussie Open, Murray went on to lose relatively early in the next four tournaments he played in.  At the Dubai Duty Free Tennis Championships, he was taken out in the second round by Janko Tipsarevic 7 (3) -6, 4-6, 6-4.  He made it to the quarter finals of the 2010 BNP Paribas Indian Wells, losing to Robin Soderling 1-6, 6-7 (4).  At the 2010 Sony Ericsson Open he had a bye into the second round, but was beaten by American, Mardy Fish 6-4, 6-4.  He requested a wildcard into the Monte-Carlo Rolex Masters to avoid losing his number 4 ranking to Juan Martin Del Potro, but he lost in the second round to Philipp Kohlscreiber 6-2, 6-1. 

So far, since his miserable straight set loss to 'Man on Fire', aka Novak Djokovic in the 2011 Australian Open final, Andy has not been able to win a set in three tournaments.  Not only has he not won a set, he's lost to players he should be beating easily. Playing at Rotterdam he lost to Marcos Baghdatis 6-4, 6-1 in the first round.  That wasn't terrible as Baghdatis was once ranked as high as number eight in the world, but getting taking out by two players outside of the top 100, Donald Young 6-7 (4), 3-6 in the first round at BNP Paribas Indian Wells and again in the first round of the Sony Ericsson Open by qualifier, Alex Bogomolov Jr 6-1, 7-5 is deplorable for a player of his talents.

Many have given their opinions about what's causing his 'issues'. Martina Navratilova says Britain's Andy Murray needs "a change in attitude" to win a first Grand Slam title.  Ivan Lendl thinks he can help the Scot...if anyone knows Andy's troubles, Ivan Lendl does.

I personally believe that he is not as mentally strong as he is physically, and that he needs to stop playing so passively when he gets to the big matches.  I believe he needs to get his mum out of his coaching box, and get someone who is not a "yes" man/woman, someone who is not going to coddle him.  He needs to stop changing coaches like they are underwear (he recently parted ways w/Alex Corretja).  Simply put, Mr. Murray needs to stop sulking and man up.