Murray may miss the French Open
Manchester Evening News|May 12, 2023
ANDY Murray will make a decision over the next few days about whether to play in the French Open.
ELEANOR CROOKS
Murray may miss the French Open

The Scot was knocked out of the Italian Open in the first round by Fabio Fognini on Wednesday evening after a three-set battle lasting nearly three hours.

Murray has failed to win a match at any of the three clay-court Masters 1000 events over the last month but won his first title since 2019 at the second-tier tournament in Aixen-Provence on Sunday.

Murray, who turns 36 this week, has only played at Roland Garros once since 2017 and must now decide whether to compete on the Parisian clay potentially for the last time or begin his preparations early for the grass-court season.

He said: "I'd still like to play but we did agree that we'd talk and make a decision as a team after Rome.

"That is what I wanted, to see how my game felt, how I was playing and physically how I was doing in some of the longer matches before making a definitive call on it. We'll have those discussions in the next few days."

This story is from the May 12, 2023 edition of Manchester Evening News.

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