Andy Murray thought before Antwerp tournament victory at a career end
Andy Murray has made a terrific comeback in the 2019 season. After struggling with tears at the Australian Open due to ongoing hip pain, the Scot celebrated a tournament victory in October with a new artificial joint. Shortly before, however, the 32-year-old thought of a resignation, as he announced recently.
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last edit: Dec 06, 2019, 08:28 am
"Asia was the sticking point I realized I could do," said Murray. In training, he set an ultimatum. If he did not make any significant wins by the end of the year, he would not want to go on. "Two or three days before my first match in Zhuhai, I had talks with my team. The effort was immense, but my agility was not on the right level. I thought I was a lot further away than my supervisors wanted me to believe. "
While Murray failed in Zhuhai in the second round to Alex de Minaur, he reached the quarter-finals at the ATP-500 tournament in Beijing. There he was defeated in two sets Dominic Thiem. At the Masters of Shanghai Murray beat Juan Ignacio Londero before he failed to Fabio Fognini.
"I won a couple of matches, which increased my confidence in the hip. I suddenly stopped thinking about it, "Murray said. "At the beginning, I still paid attention to every step, today it is not so."
In Antwerp, Murray surprised the tennis scene with a fairytale success. After two-set victories over Kimmer Coppejans and Pablo Cuevas he wrestled Marius Copil, Ugo Humbert and Stan Wawrinka each in three sets and crowned the champion.
In a few weeks, Murray wants to return to the place where he told the public about his physical problems. In Melbourne, he attacks at the Australian Open, after he was adopted emotionally by the organizers twelve months earlier.
"I do not expect to win the tournament. But if I could play a five-set match without having problems afterwards, that would be a great success, "said Murray. "I'd like to play as long as I can."