Andy Murray is feeling pretty well right now from a physical point of view, but he decided that he will not compete during the clay-court season to skip also the French Open.
Andy made the announcement in Rotterdam, where he is about to play in the local ATP500 event. The British champion explained that his body does not react very well after playing on clay. He has excellent chances of having a deep run during the grass-court season with the aim of having a good run in Wimbledon. He doesn’t want to take any risk of getting injured right before that playing on clay.
“The year I lost to Felix [Auger-Aliassime] at the US Open – I never really recovered from that match, and the clay made the issue worse.
Then last year I had some issues at the beginning of the year around Miami and again, the clay didn’t help either. I’ve spoken to my team about that and this year, while I’m feeling good and healthy, I don’t really want to take that risk.”
Talking about playing on clay in the future, Murray added:
“It’s not that I wouldn’t potentially play on clay in the future. It’s just that last year I was really close to not playing the grass season and thankfully I started to feel better right before Wimbledon. I will still try to compete for a little during that period, I won’t do nothing, but that’s my plan just now.
It gives me an opportunity to rest, recover, work on my fitness and not take any risks.”
Andy Murray in 2022
Now ranked no.102, the Brit played his last match on the 20th of January when he lost to world no.114 Taro Daniel 6-4 6-4 6-4 in the 2nd round in Australian Open (draw).
This season the Brit has a compiled 5-3 record. Andy Murray’s best accomplishment of the present year was getting to the final in Sydney.
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