Recent doubts over Andy Murray’s participation at Wimbledon surfaced on Sunday amid experiences the three-time Grand Slam champion had undergone spinal surgical procedure.
The Every day Telegraph reported the 37-year-old had gone below the knife on Saturday after withdrawing from his second-round match towards Jordan Thompson at Queen’s on Wednesday.
These claims seemed to be substantiated by a submit on X by the ATP Tour, the governing physique for males’s skilled tennis, however with the submit subsequently deleted and no affirmation from Murray’s camp, the extent of his harm stays unclear.
Earlier than his harm, Murray was gearing as much as play at Wimbledon – which begins on July 1 – for what is anticipated to be his remaining look on the Grand Slam, however these plans – and his participation at this summer time’s Olympics in Paris – seem doubtful.
An replace on Murray’s situation and probabilities of that includes on the Olympics in Paris, the place he has been chosen as a part of Group GB’s squad, is anticipated from his camp on Monday.
Talking after his Queen’s retirement, Murray stated: “Throughout my pre-match warm-up I used to be fairly uncomfortable after which I walked up the steps, simply earlier than occurring the court docket, I did not have the conventional energy in my proper leg. It was not a standard feeling.
“Then the primary two balls I hit within the warm-up, my proper leg, it was, like, so uncoordinated. I had no coordination. Then, yeah, my proper leg simply was not working correctly.
“In hindsight, I want I hadn’t gone on there as a result of it was fairly awkward for everybody.
“There’s nothing I might do, after which there’s a part of you that wishes to go on the market and see if it will get higher, you understand, and perhaps really feel higher with a little bit of remedy or one thing, however that wasn’t the case.”
Murray tried to play by the ache earlier than ultimately he needed to withdraw from the match at Queen’s, receiving a standing ovation from the gang as he waved to the spectators.
Murray, who solely returned to motion final month after eight weeks out because of damaging ankle ligaments in late March, had focused enjoying within the singles event and the lads’s doubles alongside his brother Jamie at Wimbledon.
The Olympic Video games in Paris follows Wimbledon with Murray named in Nice Britain’s squad after the Worldwide Tennis Federation awarded him a spot having received singles gold in London 2012 and Rio 2016.
Tennis on the Olympics begins on July 27, with Murray nominated to play singles and males’s doubles with Dan Evans.
He has indicated he’ll retire after this summer time.
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