Cincinnati Masters: Andy Murray loses to Richard Gasquet in singles return
Tennis | August 13, 2019 8:39 ISTRichard Gasquet snapped a five-match losing streak against Murray with a 6-4, 6-4 win in the first round of the Cincinnati Masters.
Richard Gasquet snapped a five-match losing streak against Murray with a 6-4, 6-4 win in the first round of the Cincinnati Masters.
Once the surgery eliminated the hip pain that had hobbled him for a long time, Andy Murray chose to make a comeback.
Andy and Jamie Murray won the last eight points to defeat Nicolas Mahut and Edouard Roger-Vasselinthe 6-4, 6-7(7), 10-5 for a berth in the second round.
Murray's agent, Matt Gentry, said Tuesday night that the two Grand Slam champions and former No. 1-ranked players will be partners at the All England Club.
British tennis star Andy Murray has been out of action since January, when he underwent a hip operation.
The Briton has had a rough 2018 season as he missed most of the tournaments due to a hip injury.
Andy Murray lost to 22nd-seeded Roberto Bautista Agut 6-4 6-4 6-7 6-7 6-2 in the first round of the Australian Open.
Djokovic has six Australian Open titles, a record he shared with two-time defending champion Roger Federer and Roy Emerson.
He said he's considering another hip operation, more to improve his quality of life than as a way of returning to the top level in tennis.
Murray, a three-time major champion, recovered a service break in the first set and was in the match at 5-5 until Medvedev won six straight games.
Andy Murray lost to no. 31 seed Fernando Verdasco 7-5, 2-6, 6-4, 6-4 in the second round of US Open 2018.
Murray hadn't played in a Grand Slam tournament since Wimbledon last year, before needing hip surgery that has limited him to just eight matches this year.
Williams, a 23-time Grand Slam winner who returned to the tour this year after the birth of her first child, needed just 65 minutes to dispatch Gavrilova.
Federer seeded second, has won in Cincinnati a record seven times but hasn't played there since winning in 2015. In 2016 he had a knee injury, and in 2017 he had back problems.
Murray works his way back from hip surgery and moved into the third round at the Citi Open by beating No. 4 seed Kyle Edmund 7-6 (4), 1-6, 6-4.
The All England Club announced Murray's withdrawal a day before the grass-court Grand Slam tournament begins.
Williams is returning to the grass-court tournament for the first time since 2016 after missing it last year while pregnant.
The three-time major winner has not played since last year's Wimbledon due to a hip injury and subsequent surgery.
Murray says his recovery has "been very slow" and is taking "a lot longer than I think me or any of my team kind of expected at the beginning."
As usual, all eyes are on Serena Williams, no matter what — whether she's attending the most talked-about wedding of the year or practicing at Roland Garros.
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