Tennis and Serviced Apartments, the Perfect Match

The top players will fly out a week or so before a big tournament, especially a grand slam, so they have time to acclimatise, re-set their body clock and recover from jet-lag. So when you're a top seed, it's likely that you're going to spend at least 3 weeks in the city where the tournament takes place if you make it to the latter stages

High on the list of a tennis player's gripes is the routine of traipsing from airport to airport and hotel to hotel, stuck in a world of restaurant food and an uninspiring one-room existence. The top players can afford luxury to ease the homesickness, but Murray has always espoused the importance of being able to stay at home during Wimbledon, away from prying eyes and pressure. It seems to make perfect sense that Andy Murray has chosen to stay in serviced apartments to replicate that sense of homeliness and privacy while away at other tournaments.

Indeed, once one considers all the benefits of serviced apartments for top sports stars and athletes, it seems highly likely that Team Murray are setting a trend that is certain to become ever more popular. Diet is all important for professional athletes, so a serviced apartment with a fully equipped kitchen and dining room is the perfect fit, providing the ability to cook exactly what you want, when you want.

Andy Murray is known to enjoy simple, home-cooked meals instead of elaborate restaurant cuisine when on tour. Dining in private also means that you're not bothered by autograph and photograph hunters in a public restaurant, whilst trying to talk through your game plan for tomorrow's match with your coach. In addition, if you are a particularly picky eater, or you have a particular brand of breakfast cereal you prefer to eat every morning, it's much easier to pack your own. A serviced apartment allows you to eat at your leisure, in your dressing gown, while you catch up with the news or the weather. You no longer have to get dressed and rush down to the hotel restaurant to eat a meal with everyone looking at you. Room service is an option, but what if they don't have what you asked for or prepare it just the way you like it?

The privacy offered by serviced apartments may be the biggest draw card for athletes and sports personalities on tour who are regularly preyed upon by roving bands of paparazzi. Apartments are often housed within smaller developments, or completely stand-alone, when compared to sprawling luxury hotels with masses of people coming and going. The fact that an apartment is completely self-contained, and equipped with everything you might need during your stay, contrasts a hotel in that you don't need to leave your apartment every time you need a bite to eat.