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CINCINNATI, United States (AFP) – Andy Murray said match fitness will be the key to the remainder of his season after reaching the second round of the ATP/WTA Cincinnati Masters on Monday. The two-time champion at the US Open run-up event reached the second round with a gruelling 7-6 (7/3), 5-7, 7-5 win over fellow veteran Stan Wawrinka. After half a decade of injury problems including a pair of hip surgeries, the Scot knows the […]
MELBOURNE, Australia (AFP) — Andy Murray will make his Grand Slam return at the Australian Open in January, a year after career-saving hip surgery, the organizers announced Tuesday. The British three-time major winner has been slowly working his way back to fitness and is now ranked 289th, up from 503rd just a week ago. Murray, 32, won his opening match at the Shanghai Masters on Monday, beating Argentine qualifier Juan Ignacio Londero in three sets, […]
MELBOURNE, Australia (AFP) — A tearful Andy Murray on Friday announced he would likely retire this year due to severe pain from a hip injury, saying next week’s Australian Open could be the last tournament of a glittering career. The former world number one and three-time Grand Slam winner broke down at a press conference in Melbourne as he said the pain had become almost unbearable. “I can play with limitations. But having the limitations […]
MELBOURNE, Australia (AFP) — World number one Novak Djokovic exposed Andy Murray’s frailties in a practice match ahead of the Australian Open on Thursday, with the Scot calling it a day while losing 6-1, 4-1. Three-time major winner Murray is on the comeback trail after missing 11 months with a hip injury which has seen him slump to 230 in the world. He was bundled out of the Brisbane International warm-up last week in round […]
by Andrew DENT Agence France-Presse BRISBANE, Australia (AFP) — Russia’s Daniil Medvedev showed Andy Murray just how much work he still has to do, when he beat the former world number one in straight sets in the Brisbane International on Wednesday. Murray is making a comeback to the sport after a disastrous 2018, during which he played just six tournaments and was out of the game for 11 months with a hip injury. He had […]
MELBOURNE, Australia (AFP) — Serena Williams will make her return to the Australian Open for the first time since winning in 2017 when eight-weeks pregnant, it was confirmed Wednesday, with virtually all the world’s top 100 players due at Melbourne Park. That includes injury-prone Rafael Nadal and Andy Murray. Williams returned from giving birth to her first child to reach the 2018 Wimbledon and US Open finals, but suffered upset losses in both to leave […]
LONDON, United Kingdom (AFP) — Defending champion Andy Murray reached the Wimbledon second round on Monday with a 6-1, 6-4, 6-2 win over Kazakh Alexander Bublik. Murray next faces Dustin Brown, the man who knocked out Rafael Nadal two years ago. German world number 97 Brown came back from a set and a break down to beat Portugal’s Joao Sousa 3-6, 7-6 (7/5), 6-4, 6-4.
by Dave JAMES PARIS, France (AFP) — Novak Djokovic captured a first French Open at the 12th time of asking on Sunday, becoming just the third man in history to hold all four Grand Slam titles at the same time. The world number one downed Andy Murray 3-6, 6-1, 6-2, 6-4 to claim a 12th career major and join Don Budge in 1938 and Rod Laver, in 1962 and 1969, as the only players to […]
Aug 17 (Reuters) Andy Murray ended a long drought against Novak Djokovic when he beat the Serbian 6-4 4-6 6-3 in the final of the Rogers Cup in Montreal on Sunday. The British world number three ended an eight-match, 25-month slump against the world number one. He had not beaten Djokovic since the 2013 Wimbledon final. They embraced at the net after their three-hour match that left them exhausted because of lengthy games and courtside […]
JULY 16 (Reuters) — Andy Murray said on Wednesday (July 15) that he was ready to represent Great Britain in their Davis Cup quarter-final against France this weekend, while Richard Gasquet says he is looking forward to getting back on the grass court after his Wimbledon semi-final defeat. Great Britain and France are set to face each other at London’s Queens Club from July 17-19, the first time the two nations have met in the […]
MAY 14 — In tennis, third seed Andy Murray beat French Jeremy Chardy in the Rome Master tournament after two sets with the scores of 6-4 and 6-3. (Rome, Italy) (Eagle News Service Jay Paul Carlos, Jericho Morales, MRFaith Bonalos)
(Reuters) – Defending champion Andy Murray and 17-times grand slam winner sizzled under a Miami sun, speeding into the fourth round of the Sony Open on Sunday with convincing straight sets wins. Federer, twice a winner on the Miami hardcourts, needed just 62 minutes on a sweltering center court to dispose of Dutch qualifier Thiemo De Bakker 6-3 6-3 while Murray appeared to be adjusting just fine to life without coach Ivan Lendl, easing past […]
