Brotherly love is one reason the Murray brothers aren't reprising their doubles partnership during grass-court season.
Former world No. 1 Andy Murray will partner 2017 champion Feliciano Lopez in next week's Queen's Club doubles draw.
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Older brother Jamie Murray will launch his new doubles partnership with compatriot Neal Skupski after dissolving his long-time pairing with Bruno Soares.
Andy Murray said he spoke to his brother about playing doubles together, but ultimately did not want to leave his brother hanging if he had a physical setback in his first tournament since undergoing hip resurfacing surgery in January.
"I discussed potentially playing with my brother a month, six weeks ago," Andy Murray told the media in London. “I had barely started hitting balls really at that stage. We spoke about it and I told him that it was not certain that I will be ready to play and I also don't particularly want to let him down two minutes before the tournament: 'Oh sorry, I can't play', and left him without a partner."
“I wanted to wait a bit closer to the time before making a decision over whether I was going to play."
Though the Murrays are not playing together at Queen's Club, Andy Murray has a feeling they could collide in the draw.
“If I play Jamie, I think mentally for me if I was playing singles and I played against him it’s a bit more difficult because my priority at the time would be singles and mentally that’s my brother’s career, so mentally that’s quite a difficult match to play," Andy Murray said. "But if I played him here (at Queen's Club) then I’d definitely be trying to win of course. It’s bound to end up happening I’d imagine. I wouldn’t be surprised if that was how the draw came out.”
Still, the Murray brothers could join forces before the season is out.
Andy said he's open to possibly playing with Jamie again representing Great Britain in the new Davis Cup finals format in Madrid in November.
“If I am fit and able I would enjoy that for sure,” Andy Murray said.
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