(London) Andy Murray, visibly suffering from his right hip and knee, had to retire after five games against the Australian Jordi Thompson in the round of 16 at Queen’s on Tuesday in London, making his participation in Wimbledon, the Grand Slam tournament which begins, uncertain. on July 1st.
After his first service game, the 37-year-old Scot began to limp. At the end of his second service game, the Scot, now 129th in the world in the latest ATP rankings on Monday, called on the trainer.
After having his right hip and knee manipulated, the former world No.1 resumed the game before stopping again, this time permanently, when the score was 4-1 in favor by Thompson.
Murray had already seemed to suffer on Tuesday, in the first round of a tournament of which he is a five-time winner, before beating the Australian Alexei Popyrin in the 1000th match of his career.
Before entering the fray at Queen’s, Murray, a three-time Grand Slam winner and double Olympic champion in 2013 and 2016, said on Sunday that he was “not 100% sure” of taking part in his fifth Olympic Games in Paris this summer on the courts of Roland-Garros in Paris.
The two-time winner of the Wimbledon tournament is having a difficult year: he had already injured his ankle at the end of March in the third round at the Masters 1000 in Miami, and only returned to competition almost two months later, on clay, in Geneva.
The one who had already almost ended his career in 2019, before continuing it after having a hip prosthesis fitted to his right leg, suggested at the start of the year that this season would be his last.
