No French Open! Andy Murray skips entire clay court season
Andy Murray will not play a clay court match in 2022. The Scot is also missing from the French Open, which will start at the end of May.
by Michael Rothschädl
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Feb 06, 2022, 06:46 pm
Actually, the start of the 2022 season went so well for the eternal Andy Murray. The Scot, marked by bad luck with injuries in recent years, played his first ATP final in Sydney in January since triumphing at the ATP 250 event in Antwerp in 2019. A successful preparation for the Australian Open? Not really.
At the first major tournament of the year, Murray managed the second success over Nikoloz Basilashvil within a few days in a heroic five-set fight, but in round two it should already be the end of the line for the 34-year-old. Murray never really had anything to oppose against the Japanese Taro Daniel.
Murray focuses on grass season
Now the former world number one is returning to the ATP tour at the ATP 500 event in Rotterdam next week - and will meet the newly crowned premiere winner Alexander Bublik there - but at the same time he had to come up with bad news in the Netherlands: Andy Murray will be skip the entire 2022 clay court season including the French Open.
The reason for this is the preparation for the grass season, which is so important for him: "Last year I almost missed Wimbledon, I was close to missing the grass season. I'm not planning to play on sand. I'll try to catch up during this time hold," quotes Eurosport Murray , who is currently working on an interim basis with Dani Vallverdu, Stan Wawrinka's trainer: "It's very good for me in the short term, but I'm still trying to find a longer-term solution. In the medium and long term, I want to some stability."