New coach Ivan Lendl has told Andy Murray to "keep doing your thing" and success will come.
Lendl tells protege to persist ahead of Nishikori clash
Ivan Lendl has told Andy Murray to "keep doing your thing" and success will come.
Murray's new coach is convinced Murray is still maturing and will use the experience of his three Grand Slam final defeats to his advantage in the future.
The British star will play Kei Nishikori in the Australian Open quarter-finals on Wednesday as he homes in on another major final.
Lendl, who lost his first four Grand Slam finals before going on to win eight, said: "Part of it is maturing, he is still a fairly young player, he is 25 this year.
"He needs experience and some players learn quicker than others, I was one of the slower ones.
"You just do your thing and keep on doing it and when the door opens you have to step through it."
Panic
The 51-year-old also points to the quality of the opposition the Scot has faced as another reason not to panic.
He added: "Everyone makes a big thing of Andy being 0-3 in finals but he lost twice to Roger (Federer), arguably the best player of all time and certainly in the Open era.
"Losing to Novak (Djokovic) here last year at the time looked like a bad loss but if that had happened at the US Open everyone would have said Novak had had a fantastic year and no-one would have been riding Andy's tail."
As for the clash with Nishikori, Lendl added on
ESPN: "It's one match at a time, no player gets to the quarters without being a very good player.
"Nishikori is a young player, he played a very good match (against Jo-Wilfried Tsonga) and this is the next goal."
