US Open Singles Still A Step Too Far For Returning Andy Murray
13th August 2019
The three-time Grand Slam winner announced his decision after losing 6-3, 6-3 at the Cincinnati Masters fist round to Richard Gasquet
- Andy Murray will throttle back his ATP comeback, announcing on Monday that has no plans to attempt singles play at the US Open
- Murray said he does plan to enter both men's and mixed doubles at the US Open, the last Grand Slam of the year that starts at Flushing Meadows in a fortnight
- The 32-year-old confirmed that he still has some ways to go before returning to his top fitness and will limit his singles activity as he continues to recover from hip resurfacing surgery in January
CINCINNATI, United States- Andy Murray will throttle back his ATP comeback, announcing on Monday
that has no plans to attempt singles play at the US Open.
The three-time Grand
Slam winner announced his decision after losing 6-3, 6-3 at the Cincinnati
Masters fist round to Richard Gasquet.
It was his first
singles match in seven months.
"I'm not going
to play the US Open singles," he confirmed. "It's a decision I made
with my team, I didn't want to take a wildcard (in singles)."
Murray said he does
plan to enter both men's and mixed doubles at the US Open, the last Grand Slam
of the year that starts at Flushing Meadows in a fortnight.
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The 32-year-old
confirmed that he still has some ways to go before returning to his top fitness
and will limit his singles activity as he continues to recover from hip
resurfacing surgery in January.
Having returned to
doubles play two months ago, Murray said he was not sure he was adequately
prepared for the demands of Grand Slam singles, where men play best-of-five set
matches.
"I just didn't
know today how I was going to feel after a match," said Murray, who
indicated US Open organizers wanted to know whether he was interested in a
singles wild card before he played Gasquet.
"I felt like I
wanted to maybe try and get a couple of matches in before making a decision
like that," he said.
"I wanted
to wait and see, discuss things with my team," he said. "But there
was definitely no certainty that I would have played regardless, even if I was
allowed to take a week or 10 days to make that decision."
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Murray did leave the
door open for a possible surprise appearance next week in the last ATP
tournament before the US Open.
"Maybe I'll
play Winston-Salem," he said.
Murray, who won the
Queen's Club doubles prior to Wimbledon with Feliciano Lopez, said he is unsure
of his partners for the final major of the season.
"I don't know
who I'm going to play doubles or mixed with there."