Andy Murray has doubts about Wimbledon and reflects on the problems at the Queen’s Club Championships during the match

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Updated: June 20, 2024 06:45 IST

London (UK), June 20 (ANI): After withdrawing from the second round of the Queen’s Club Championships due to problems with his back, three-time Grand Slam champion Andy Murray revealed how worrying the injury is and will undergo a scan to determine who will decide whether he would play at the upcoming Wimbledon 2024.
Three-time Grand Slam champion retired after five games in the second round against Jordan Thompson due to back problems.
“Obviously it wasn’t great. I’ve had back problems for a while. I had loss of strength in my right leg. So loss of motor control, no coordination. Yeah, I couldn’t move,” Murray said. quoted by ATP.
Dealing with the back wasn’t new to Murray; the 37-year-old revealed it was painful in the run-up to the ATP 500 match. Murray withdrew from his second round match against Jordan Thompson while trailing 4-1 in the opening set. After three games he was treated for sore hips and lower back. It was later determined that Murray had a back problem.
“It was quite painful during my match yesterday. Yes, it hurt today. But I could handle it. I didn’t feel comfortable playing, but I could handle it. During my pre-match warm-up I was quite uncomfortable, and when I walked up the stairs right before I went on the field, I didn’t have the usual, just normal strength in my right leg. It was not a normal feeling,” Murray said.

“I don’t know how many of you were watching, but the first two balls I hit in warm-up, my right leg, was so uncoordinated. I had no coordination. The right leg just wasn’t working right,” the 37-year-old said. -years old.
Murray said he had been dealing with back problems for the past decade.
“I don’t know exactly what the problem is. I just know that this isn’t something – I had never experienced that before. Today, yesterday and for the past ten years I have been dealing with back pain. Eleven years of my career, but I’ve never experienced that before. So I don’t really know what the procedure will be like or what to expect,” Murray added.
The 37-year-old hopes to compete in what is likely to be his final Grand Slam match at Wimbledon, which starts on July 1. However, a scan will be performed to determine the severity of the problem that caused the two occurrences. The SW19 champion’s right leg went numb just before he entered Center Court.
“During my pre-match warm-up I felt quite uncomfortable and when I was walking up the stairs, just before I went onto the pitch, I didn’t have the normal strength in my right leg. It was not a usual feeling. Then came the The first two balls I hit in the warm-up, my right leg, was so uncoordinated that I had no coordination because it was quite difficult for everyone,” Murray said, as quoted by Skysports.
“There’s nothing I could do, and then there’s a part of you that wants to go out and see if it gets better, you know, and maybe feel better with a little bit of treatment or something, but that wasn’t the case,” he added. (ANI)