El campeón de Wimbledon de 2013 y 2016, que se enfrenta a el sembrado número 22 como Roberto Bautista Agut en la primera ronda en AUSTRALIAN OPEN 2019, luchó contra las lágrimas en su conferencia de prensa previa al torneo el viernes después de 20 meses de rehabilitación agotadora en una problemática cadera derecha.
El jugador de 31 años se sometió a una cirugía en la cadera en enero de 2018, y desde entonces ha luchado por recuperar la asombrosa forma en la cancha que lo hizo acumular tres coronas de Grand Slam entre sus 45 títulos de carrera y dos medallas de oro olímpicas.
"Sí, no es genial", respondió Murray llorando con respecto a su bienestar físico.
"He estado con mucho dolor desde hace unos 20 meses. He intentado todo lo posible para que mi cadera se sienta mejor. No ha ayudado mucho, estoy en un lugar mejor que hace seis meses, pero todavía tengo mucho dolor. Ha sido duro "...
Andy Murray’s career is all but over. He expects his match against Roberto Bautista Agut in the first round of the Australian Open on Monday to be his last but, even if another hip operation were to help him reach a more emotional and perhaps more fitting farewell at Wimbledon, it will never be the same for the player who stood alongside Fred Perry as the greatest Britain has ever had. Many would say Murray was the greater, but it is a fine call.
The former world No1 and three-time slam champion conceded that the pain that has been running through his right hip with increasing strength the past few months has brought his serious playing days to a reluctant conclusion.
Murray turns 32 on 15 May, when he would normally be preparing for another assault on the French Open – which is where the chronic weakness in his hip became almost unbearable in 2017 against Stan Wawrinka – but the chances of his returning there are virtually nil, as he admitted in a press conference in which he had to leave the room to compose himself, as the emotion welled in his reddening eyes.
“There’s a chance of that, for sure,” he said when asked if this tournament – in which he has lost in five finals – would be his sign-off from the game he has played since he was 10 in Dunblane.
“I am not sure I am able to play through the pain for another four or five months,” he said of his original plan to bow out at the All England Club, where he won two of his three majors.
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