LONDON: Andy Murray is confident the frustration of missing the French Open will soon be forgotten as he looks to make a winning return to action at Queen’s Club next week.
World number two Murray was forced to withdraw from the clay-court Grand Slam in Paris due to a back injury.
But the reigning US Open and Olympic champion has recovered well enough to feature in the pre-Wimbledon warm-up event which starts at Queen’s Club in west London today. Murray has been training on grass with coach Ivan Lendl and his friend and Tim Henman as he looks to find form with Wimbledon just two weeks away.
And asked if sitting out the French Open could turn out to be beneficial, the 26-year-old said: “I hope so. That’s the sort of attitude you need to take.
“I know after the French Open last year I took five or six days off and when I started practising again I felt really comfortable on the grass straight away and that isn’t normally the case.
“Grass takes time to get used to. I’ve been on the grass for 10 days or so and that’s probably a week longer than I would have had if I’d been at the French Open. It’s more than I’ve had the past few years and I’ve been playing better and better each day in practice so hopefully it will turn out to be a blessing.” AFP
