WIMBLEDON, London -- If Andy Murray wishes to save his energy for the latter stages of the Wimbledon fortnight -- as well as saving the British public's nerves -- he must avoid living as dangerously in the first week as he did at Roland Garros.
Murray, who opens his Wimbledon on Tuesday when he plays British wild card Liam Broady, tends to be at his most edgy in the early rounds of a Grand Slam.
That much was plain on the Parisian clay when he came within two points of an opening-round defeat to Radek Stepanek, having dropped the first two sets against the Czech, and then in his next match he found himself two sets to one down against Mathias Bourgue, a French wild card.
Taking to social media, Murray posted an image of a 'get out of jail free' card from the Monopoly board game.
That's a game that Murray knows well; as a child, he would fling the board into the air if he landed on Park Lane. Those rages were among the early signs of his competitive spirit, and that side of his personality will be on full display against Broady.
For all Murray's generosity and support for the other British players in the draw -- he hopes Broady will be "really pumped and excited" for their match -- he will crush the world No.235 if he can.
While Murray's scenic route through the draw in Paris didn't stop him from making a first French Open final, those early adventures would have taken much out of him, and he wasn't as fresh in the title-match against Novak Djokovic as he perhaps could have been.
Before the draw was made last Friday, Broady had been saying to his coach that he would be happy to play "anyone but Andy". So it is his misfortune to be paired with the former Wimbledon champion.
It could be said that Broady has been doubly unlucky as he is playing Murray so soon after his early-round escapades in Paris. Now more than ever, Murray is alive to the dangers posed by a lowly-ranked opponent at this stage of the competition.
Broady's game -- and his beard -- attracted a fair amount of attention last year when he made the second round, but he was essentially still in the margins. By some distance, this Centre Court appearance will be the biggest occasion of his tennis life.
This match will be played before 14,979 spectators -- which is 14,977 more than he will be used to playing in front of in the lower leagues of men's professional tennis.
To save money, Broady occasionally sleeps on friends' sofas and this Centre Court appearance is his opportunity in front of that live crowd, and also the millions following it on television, to elevate himself.
"I hope Liam is really pumped and excited for our first-round match at Wimbledon, because these are the moments you play for," Murray wrote in his BBC column.
"I obviously hope that I win the match but I know him pretty well and this is a big opportunity for him to go out there, give it a go and show everybody what he's got."
It will also be a big moment for Murray, who is playing his first Wimbledon match as a father after the birth of his daughter Sophia in February. It will also be his first match at the All England Club with Ivan Lendl in his corner since the 2013 Wimbledon final.