Andy Murray relives injury hell as Brit returns to scene of agony at French Open
Andy Murray has relived his agony of suffering his hip injury losing to Stan Wawrinka at the 2017 French Open and admitted: “I never recovered.” The two triple Grand Slam champions will reunite in the first round at Roland Garros on Sunday.
Murray has played the Swiss superstar on his last two matches in the French capital, including a brutal first round defeat here in 2020. But Wawrinka’s five-set win here in the 2017 semi-finals saw him reach his fourth and last Grand Slam final while Murray suffered two years of injury hell and two hips operations.
The Scot, who could be appearing in his final French Open, recalled: “It was the last straw. I remember before the quarter-final match that I played against Kei Nishikori that something wasn’t right. I had had issues with my hip for a really long time and if you look at some of my results in the year leading up to that, I had lost multiple matches from two sets to one up.
“It happened at the US Open, it happened at the Davis Cup. Obviously it happened here against Stan as well and my record when I was in that position throughout my career was excellent. And as the longer matches were going on, I was starting to have issues like one moving, and also driving up to serve, because of my hip.
