Andy Murray says profitable one different Grand Slam is likely to be “terribly troublesome” nevertheless he’ll nonetheless “shoot for the celebs”.
The earlier world main was knocked out of the US Open late on Thursday, shedding in straight items to Felix Auger-Aliassime inside the second spherical.
Murray was having fun with his first Grand Slam singles match since a career-saving hip resurfacing operation in January 2019.
“It was onerous enough as soon as I had two common hips,” the 33-year-old acknowledged.
“So it’ll seemingly be troublesome, nevertheless I’m going to protect trying – why not? Why mustn’t I try my hardest to do that? And if I don’t, that’s all correct. Nonetheless I might as successfully shoot for the celebs.”
Murray gained his first Grand Slam title in New York in 2012, following that up with Wimbledon victories in 2013 and 2016.
Nonetheless, affected by hip accidents, he first had surgical process in January 2018 sooner than a second operation 12 months later.
He has not featured inside the latter ranges of a critical since reaching the Wimbledon quarter-finals in 2017.
“I actually really feel like I’m once more at sq. one, having not carried out in slams for just some years,” he acknowledged. “I need to assemble up my physique and my bodily conditioning so that I’ve the flexibleness to once more up five-set matches.
“That takes a bit of little bit of time, sadly.”
He added: “You comply with as loads as you want alongside together with your coach or juniors, nevertheless having fun with in opposition to guys which may be serving 135, 140 miles an hour and hitting the ball giant from the once more of the courtroom, your timing have to be spot on.
“So the additional I get uncovered to having fun with with increased players and practising with them, the upper for me merely now.”
Murray says he can take positives from the earlier two weeks at Flushing Meadows though, having gained two matches on the Western and Southern Open sooner than coming from two items and a break proper right down to overcome Yoshihito Nishioka in nearly four hours and 40 minutes inside the US open first spherical on Tuesday.
He’ll now flip his consideration to the clay and preparing for the delayed French Open, which is scheduled to start on 27 September at Roland Garros.
“I would say even after tonight I’m further optimistic about what I would do in Grand Slams than I was sooner than I came to visit proper right here. You clearly don’t perceive how I was feeling even merely a number of months up to now,” he acknowledged.
“I carried out a number of sturdy matches in [the Western and Southern Open] and I carried out positively one very sturdy match proper right here, and my correct hip felt good. That’s truly, truly optimistic.
“There’s totally different points that should get increased, nevertheless I would say that I’m further optimistic now than what I was a number of months up to now, that’s for sure.”
