Becker blasts Murray over drug comments

Former world No.1 Boris Becker has blasted Andy Murray for suggesting there is drugs in the sport.

It follows the world No.2 expressing doubt to British media over the weekend.

“I have played against players and thought: ‘they won’t go away or they don’t seem to be getting tired’. Have I ever been suspicious of someone? Yeah. You hear things,” Murray is quoted as saying.

“It’s harder to tell in our sport as people can make big improvements to a stroke or start serving better because they have made technical changes. If it’s purely physical and you’re watching someone playing six-hour matches over and over and showing no signs of being tired, you’d look at that,” Murray elaborated.

Becker, now the coach of world No.1 Novak Djokovic, hit back at the claims from the Laureus World Sports Awards in Berlin last night.

“We have random drug-testing and unless it’s proven, they are 100 per cent innocent,” Becker retorted. “So to assume something because somebody has won a Grand Slam or is fitter, is totally out of order.

“Andy is one of the fittest players on the tour – he often outlasts players and nobody is questioning his ethics. I believe 100 per cent Andy is clean. Roger is clean. Rafa is clean. All these guys are clean. Novak gets tested a lot. That can mean twice in a Grand Slam.”

It is a topic Murray has been quite outspoken on. In March he condemned Russian Maria Sharapova following her announcement she had tested positive to meldonium, and in 2015 expressed his disappointment in American Wayne Odesnik for damaging the sports reputation after he received a 15-year ban for doping.

Bye bye Wayne… Good riddance

— Andy Murray (@andy_murray) March 18, 2015