Australian Open 2012: Andy Murray finally came of age against Novak Djokovic Judging by Andy's reaction after the match, he realises that there are far more positives than negatives to take away. He knows that, in Ivan Lendl, he has the right man by his side to work on the weaknesses that cropped up in this match. Everyone has a few glitches in their game; there's no such thing as the complete player. But you don't need to make every single shot to win a title - you just have to be better than the next guy. So what are the things that Andy needs to improve? His second serve was getting murdered out there, and though he did a good job of protecting it through the first couple of sets, he does need to give it a little bit more juice. Having said that, Novak is easily the best in the world when it comes to ramming second serves back, either with passing shots or right at the server's feet, so Andy is not alone there. During the rallies, Andy went toe to toe with Novak. He showed that his forehand is better, much better, than it was this time last year. But it's the off-forehand that still collapses a little on the biggest points, the one where you open your body and spear it diagonally towards your opponent's backhand. He had a couple of key misses on this shot at times when he could have taken control of the match. More important than either of these technical points, though, is Andy's apparent fragility when he is ahead. The start of the fourth set was the one time when I would question his performance. Here he was, having just held his nerve through that difficult third-set tiebreak, and he gave away a bunch of cheap games and points to let Novak right back into the match. In my own career, I used to run faster when I could see the finish line ahead of me. I remember when I won the Australian Open in 1991, playing Ivan in fact, I took a lead of two sets to one, and then broke him in his first service game of the fourth set. It was the same with Rafael Nadal on Thursday night: he won the third-set tiebreak and then finished Roger Federer off without much fuss in the fourth. Some guys are natural front-runners; others need to learn the art of landing the killer blow. And Andy couldn't have a better man to talk to about this than Ivan, who used to have a problem in that area. Ivan started out as Mr Choker, the guy who always lost in the finals, but he turned it around and became the ultimate front-runner, the man you never wanted to go behind against. So there are things that Andy can work on after we leave Melbourne. But you can't expect him to wake up and be Mr Perfect all of a sudden. He just needs to appreciate that he is in the middle of a very positive process, a road that is taking him where he wants to go. We have all been waiting for him to show that he has matured as a player, and here he did exactly that. If he keeps turning up and performing at that level in every tournament he enters, good things are going to happen.