“Each day it becomes more and more likely” – Murray on Wimbledon participation
Andy Murray is improving every day, and will make a decision on Monday evening most likely regarding his participation in this year’s Wimbledon
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Andy Murray is leaving his decision on whether or not he’ll participate at Wimbledon this year right up until the last minute.
The Brit spoke to media on Sunday, revealing that he was progressing well, but would make a final call on his fitness by Monday evening, most likely.
“Just been trying to do everything that I can to try and get ready to start the tournament here,” Murray shared.
“I don’t know if that’s going to be enough. I’ve been practicing for the last few days.
“It’s getting better every single day. Like I said a few days ago, I want to give it every single chance that I can to get there.
“I’m going to play another set again tomorrow. I’m doing some physical testing in the morning to see sort of how far off I am from a physical perspective.
“Then I will probably make a decision tomorrow evening after that.”
Feeling in leg the main issue for Murray
Murray, who underwent surgery following his withdrawal from Queen’s just under two weeks ago, shared that the main issue is a lack of feeling in his leg.
“I played a set today. It went pretty well, but I still don’t have 100 percent sort of feeling and sensation in my leg yet,” the Brit explained.
“I have no back pain, which is obviously really good,” he continued. “But the nature of the problem that I had was quite a large cyst, which was compressing my nerves, which then obviously lost not all but a lot of control in my right leg.
“That is getting better. But it’s kind of like if you sleep on your arm funny, you wake up and you’ve got a dead arm. It’s kind of like that feeling. But it goes on for a lot longer because the nerve has been kind of squashed and a little bit damaged for a number of days.
“How long that takes to regain its full sort of function again is impossible to say. For some people it takes months; for some people it’s weeks. I don’t know exactly how long it’s going to take.
“But all of the work that we’re doing, the testing we’re doing, is improving every single day with the training and the practicing. It’s not like I’m playing tennis and it’s taking a step backwards. It’s been getting better every day.
“I’m hopeful that that continues and it’s going to be enough to be on the court on Tuesday.”
Murray is scheduled to play against world No 38 Tomas Machac in the first round of Wimbledon on Tuesday.
