Andy Murray urges tennis bosses not to push away fans

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Andy Murray urges tennis bosses not to push away fans
 
ANDY MURRAY has warned tennis bosses not to over-react to recent security worries by pushing away the fans.
 
 Since the stabbing of Monica Seles on court in Hamburg in 1993, tennis has been very careful to keep spectators at arms' length.
 
 However, on the opening day of the French Open a young fan was allowed to walk onto the playing surface and ask Roger Federer for a photograph before being finally arrested.
 
 Federer reacted angrily to the incident and Murray admits that he has dark moments when he wonders what would happen if somebody did wish him ill.
 
 He said: "I have genuinely never actually been concerned. I have never been in a situation where I have actually freaked out.
 
 "But sometimes I do, when I am on my own, think, 'Wow, there are so many people there, what if someone really doesn't like you?'
 
 "It is possible. You obviously saw what happened with Monica Seles. It is very rare but these things are not impossible so it is important that security looks after the players.
 
 "But it is one of the nice things about tennis as well, at the practice courts and most of the events, and getting to and from practice, the fans do get access to the players at a lot of the events.
 
 "That said, if someone is leaping down onto the court then you never know why they are doing it, or who they are or whatever, so we just have to be looked after."
 
 Murray was able to take a break yesterday as he will not be in action till "Brit Thursday" - when Heather Watson and Kyle Edmund also play next.
 
 Novak Djokovic stumbled slightly when he found himself a break down in the second set but recovered to complete a comfortable 6-2, 7-5, 6-2 rout of Jarkko Nieminen.
 
 And Rafa Nadal was never going to be troubled by local 18-year-old wild card Quentin Halys, winning 6-3, 6-3, 6-4 in just 109 minutes.