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Andy Murray Will Not Play U.S. Open Singles


Andy Murray returned to the singles court on Monday at the Western and Southern Open in Cincinnati, but he will not play singles at the U.S. Open.

The 2012 U.S. Open champion confirmed that on Monday, telling reporters that he had considered taking a wild card but didn’t want to do so when unsure of his physical status.

“I'm not going to play the US Open singles,” Murray said. “You know, we were hoping to maybe hold a wildcard until a little bit close to the time to see how I feel and get some matches hopefully and a bit of practice, but they were announcing the wildcards today and didn't want to wait.”

Murray says the U.S. Open offered him a wild card today but needed to know if Murray would take it immediately. Murray said he needed more time to be sure and did not want to ask the tournament to wait.

“I didn't want to take a wildcard today because I just didn't know how I was going to feel after a match,” he said. “I felt like I wanted to be fair for me to, you know, maybe try and get a couple of matches in before making a decision like that.

Murray’s comeback will continue on the doubles court.

“I'll maybe play Winston-Salem [singles] potentially, but I'll probably look at just playing doubles and mixed doubles. That's what I will do at the US Open,” he said.

Murray later elaborated further on his decision, explaining that he did not want to take the wild card then give it back at the last moment, because he felt he’d create too much controversy by doing so.

“I could have taken the wildcard, but I know if I would have taken the wildcard and then not played, then I would have been getting loads of questions about my hip and ‘why has he turned it down, is something wrong, what's the problem?’” he said. “That didn't feel right to me,” he added. “I just wanted to wait and see, discuss things with my team. But there was definitely no certainty that I would have played regardless, even if I was allowed to take a week or ten days to make that decision, you know, there was no guarantee that I would have played anyway.

“It was more likely that I was not going to, because although I did fine in the match today, physically, like I said, my legs felt quite heavy at the end of the match, and that's probably not going to change a whole lot in a couple of weeks.”

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