British doubles specialist Jamie Murray says he may consider turning vegan once he retires from the sport. In his latest column for the BBC, Murray says he finds the diet good but finds it tough to maintain when he is on the road and at tournaments.
Murray says, "When we were playing in Basel last month, I posted a picture of a few of the British guys - me, Neal Skupski, Dan Evans, his coach Mark Hilton and our Davis Cup captain Leon Smith - with a caption 'Back the (vegan) Brits'. Evo is vegan and Hilts is doing it, so we were all eating vegan that week, going to a Thai restaurant every night for vegan food. I've tried veganism before. I'm not fully vegan but I think as a base diet, the staple of your diet, it is really good. But I find it too hard to maintain when I'm travelling and also it is about making sure you get enough content to eat. If I'm at home, I can control it but sometimes when I'm travelling it is out of your control, in terms of what food they provide at tournaments. I did it for a couple of weeks after the French Open and I lost about two and a half to three kilos. That tells you I probably needed to lose it, or I could afford to lose it, but I wasn't eating as much as I needed to - that's why I was losing the weight because I wasn't getting the calories in.
It's tough to say if that weight loss affected my training levels or performance, positively or negatively. I couldn't honestly say if it was beneficial or not, I don't know. I think if I was eating enough food, then going vegan full-time would be fine, but at the time I was training a lot and not getting enough calories. That was because I was getting food delivered each day, which had a certain amount of calories that I wasn't used to and I wasn't topping up loads. I like the ethics of veganism and for me, the biggest thing was for my own health. Post-career, I would maybe think about becoming fully vegan. You have less appetite because you are not working out as much and need to be more aware and careful - as you need to keep the weight off otherwise you would balloon!
Speaking about the revamped Davis Cup where the British team reached the semi-finals, Murray commented about what he thought were problems with the format. "One is the scheduling because some matches weren't finishing until the early morning, including one at 4:04 am between the United States and Italy. A solution could be to have a second venue in Madrid, somewhere that's got two or three courts like the Caja Magica. That would mean matches could be split across both venues and played in one day-to-evening session, instead of a day session followed by a night session like this year. If they had six courts, the three at the Caja Magica and three somewhere else, then they can have one tie on each court and start at midday or early afternoon. That would see the play go through to the evening or until about 10 pm and stop the late finishes we have seen this week.
On the issue of poor audiences for the matches, Murray says, "The second issue is getting the stadiums fuller for all of the matches because only the Spain matches were sold out. We were fortunate we had a lot of British fans who travelled to the event and made it a good atmosphere for all the matches we played. It wasn't like that for all the other matches. I do think the organisers missed an opportunity there by not giving the unsold tickets to schoolchildren and getting them in to watch the matches. That would have been a good idea and would have exposed young kids - the future of the sport as potential players and fans - to tennis."
Jamie also said he hoped that Gerard Pique and the ITF would speak to the players to get their views on the format which would help make the tournament better for next year.
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