After retiring from the second round of the Queen`s Club Championships due to struggles with his back the three-time Grand Slam champion Andy Murray revealed how concerning the injury is and will undergo a scan to determine which will decide whether he would play at the upcoming Wimbledon 2024.
Three-time Grand Slam champion retired from the second-round match against Jordan Thompson after five games due to struggles with his back.
“Obviously it wasn`t great. I have been struggling with my back for a while. I had loss of power in my right leg. So loss of motor control, had no coordination. Yeah, couldn`t move,” Murray said as quoted by ATP.
Dealing with the back was not new to Murray, the 37-year-old revealed that leading up to the match the ATP 500 it was sore. Murray withdrew from his second-round match against Jordan Thompson while behind 4-1 in the opening set. After three games, he had treatment for sore hips and lower back. Later on, it was established that Murray had a back problem.
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“It was pretty sore in my match yesterday. Yeah, it was sore through today. But I was able to manage it. I wasn`t comfortable playing, but I was able to manage it. During my pre-match warmup, I was pretty uncomfortable, and then I walked up the stairs just before going on the court, I didn`t have the usual, just normal strength in my right leg. It was not a usual feeling,” Murray said.
“I don`t know how many of you were watching, but the first two balls I hit in the warmup, my right leg, it was so uncoordinated. I had no coordination. Right leg just was not working properly,” said the 37-year-old.
Murray said he dealt with back problems for about the past 10 years.
“I don`t know exactly what the problem is. I just know that this is not something — I hadn`t experienced that before. [I have been] dealing with the back pain today, yesterday, and for the last 10, 11 years of my career, but I have never experienced that before. So I don`t know what the procedure will be or what to expect, really,” Murray added.
The 37-year-old hopes to participate in what is likely to be his final Grand Slam match at Wimbledon, which gets underway on July 1. However, a scan will be performed to ascertain the severity of the issue that caused the two-time SW19 champion`s right leg to become numb immediately before he entered Centre Court.
“During my pre-match warm-up I was pretty uncomfortable and then I walked up the stairs, just before going on the court, I didn`t have the normal strength in my right leg. It was not a usual feeling. Then the first two balls I hit in the warm-up, my right leg, it was, like, so uncoordinated. I had no coordination. Then, yeah, my right leg just was not working properly. In hindsight I wish I hadn`t gone on there because it was pretty awkward for everyone,” Murray said as quoted by Skysports.
“There is nothing I could do, and then there is part of you that wants to go out there and see if it gets better, you know, and maybe feel better with a bit of treatment or something, but that wasn`t the case,” he added.
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