Andy Murray says it will be tough to win another Grand Slam after his operation but he will not stop trying. Murray’s US Open comeback came to an end in the second round at the hands of Canadian prodigy Felix Auger-Aliassime. Playing in his first Grand Slam singles tournament since career-saving hip surgery 20 months ago, Murray bowed out after a 6-2 6-3 6-4 defeat.
“I think the more tournaments that you play, the more matches that you play, you build up that sort of robustness in your body, which right now I don’t really have,” Murray said. “Today wasn’t the level I would have hoped for. So that’s something that I’ll need to build up over the next few months and hopefully beginning of next year. If I can stay healthy, I will be better able to back up difficult physical efforts.”.
“Obviously I don’t want to lose in straight sets anywhere, and obviously certainly not in Grand Slams. So what I need to do is look at what happened the last couple of weeks, look at the things in my game that weren’t as I would have liked, and then physically look at what I can do to improve so that if I’m in that situation again in a few weeks’ time in the French Open, I deal with it better,” he added. “All you can do is try and keep improving from where you are. And I’m not in the same position that I was three years ago when I was, in the latter stages of most of the events I was playing and kind of back at square one. I’m ranked 115, 120 in the world and my game reflects that just now. So I’ll need to get better if I want to move up the rankings and be more competitive.”
“The number one priority for me was that my hip was good, and it coped really well with a five-set match. Which lots of people, myself included, weren’t sure how I was going to do with that and actually coped relatively well the other day against a very tough opponent. So that was positive.” he continued. “But like I said, to build up – I feel like I’m back at square one, like, having not played in Slams for a few years, like, I need to build up my body and my physical conditioning so that, you know, I have the ability to back up five-set matches.”
