Former world number one Andy Murray is looking to make his return to the ATP circuit at the Cincinnati Masters tournament in August. The 32-year-old Briton suffered a second hip surgery in January and has been playing doubles matches since June in order to regain some fitness. Murray also had hip surgery in 2018, returned to action in June for the grass-court season but lost in the first round at Queens and the second round at Wimbledon. The last singles tournament that he played in 2018 was at Shenzen in September. Then he tried to come back in January at Brisbane and at the Australian Open.
Murray revealed that the Australian Open would be his final tournament due to his health conditions, and then lost his first-round match against Roberto Bautista Agut, an epic five-hour contest. Now Murray has regained some fitness and confidence after having been playing doubles with his brother Jamie and also mixed doubles with Serena Williams at Wimbledon earlier this summer.
"Best-case scenario probably would be Cincinnati," Murray said about his return to singles action. "Then if I wasn't able to play in Cincinnati, there's a good chance I would probably wait until after New York because I wouldn't want my first tournament to be playing best of five sets." The three-time Grand Slam winner is now ranked 222nd in the world, but he would probably receive a wild card at any tournament in the world. The last title that Murray won was at the Dubai Championships in March 2017.
The next Grand Slam tournament of the season is the US Open and world number one Novak Djokovic is the favourite to win it, he is 6/5 at William Hill to win it.
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sharpe
07/30/19, 01:07:57 PM
With all the injuries he's got over the years I really think his approach of returning to Tennis should be quite steady and careful, and beside at 32 Murray don't...
With all the injuries he's got over the years I really think his approach of returning to Tennis should be quite steady and careful, and beside at 32 Murray don't get any younger so I think he really should limit the number of tournaments he'd be involved in the next one or two years which could revive and extend his career I believe. But let's see first when exactly he'd be back and how he'd perform.
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