Andy Murray is making his debut at the Farmers Classic this week, which is an ATP World Tour 250 hard-court tournament, being played here in Los Angeles. The Briton is spending more time with his fitness trainer Jez Green these days.  Murray has won 14 tour-level titles. Murray is a top-seeded wild card entrant in the tournament. Murray will play Tim Smyczek in the opening match. The Briton has a 22-10 winning record in this season.

When asked about his preparations, Murray said, “I just need to become a better player all around. I think it's easy to start over-thinking things and over-analysing things to try and find.” He further added, “I don't think there's a problem with my game. I just need to get better. That's something that maybe hasn't happened the last four or five months, something that hopefully by getting a new coach and a new sort of coaching team in place, that will help me do that, and hopefully achieve my goals.”

Murray has been considered as one of the top contenders to win U.S. Open this year. Murray reached the final at the Australian Open this year, but lost in straight sets to Roger Federer. 

Murray quoted, “it has been a difficult year. Obviously Wimbledon and the Australian Open have been great. Apart from that, it's not been so good. You know, the sort of 18 months previous, before sort of Miami this year, I hadn't really played a bad tournament for a long, long time. I got into a little bit of a rut. I had a few bad tournaments. It's not necessarily a patience thing. Now I feel good again. I feel confident after the way Wimbledon went. I kind of saw what the problems were, what I needed to do to get back to playing top-three, top-four tennis again. I addressed it. I'm hoping I have another good hard-court stretch in the States.”

When asked about the conditions in Los Angeles, he said, “the conditions over there have been really, really brutal. It's incredibly hot, very humid.”