Andy Murray suffered another setback on his way back to the ATP tour. The Scot cancelled the planned start at the grass court tournament in s’Hertogenbosch next week because he does not feel fit enough for a comeback yet.
“I still plan to come back in the next few weeks, but I want to be at 100 percent,” Murray said in a broadcast. “I’m not quite ready.”
The former world number one has not played a professional match since his quarter-final defeat in Wimbledon last year. Pain in the right hip kept on bothering Murray. In January, he underwent surgery in Australia after constructive treatment brought no improvement.
Following the cancellation of the ATP tournament in the Netherlands, Murray is now planning a comeback to the third major event of the year, which starts on July 2.
The rehabilitation was very slow, the process took “a while longer than I or any of my team had ever suspected at the beginning,” Murray said.
Whether he can play at the grass court tournament at London’s Queen’s Club on 18 June remains to be seen. Murray was the first Briton in 77 years to win the Wimbledon tournament in 2013. Three years later he won another triumph at the All England Tennis Club.