ROME — Given that clay has been dominated by a single player for the last decade in the men’s game, it is not surprising that a top player is going into the French Open undefeated on the surface this season.
But in a casting change, third-ranked Andy Murray is the man arriving to Paris with a 10-0 record on clay this year, having won back-to-back titles in Munich and Madrid, as well as a match this week at the Italian Open.
Murray, long a top player on hard and grass courts, had never reached a final on clay before April, when he did so in Munich.