Murray Not Sure How Healthy He Is

Written by: Staff on 10th November 2011

Murray Not Sure How Healthy He Is |

Andy Murray is still not certain of his fitness as he blazes a trail towards this season’s fourth successive title, the BNP Paribas Masters in Paris, and the third ranked Scot will undergo intensive treatment on a troublesome hamstring muscle before tomorrow’s quarter final at the Palais Omnisports de Bercy.

Murray, who pulled out of last week’s Swiss Indoors as a precaution following tournament wins in Bangkok, Tokyo and Shanghai, made short work of former world no.1 Andy Roddick to move through but the 6-2,6-2 win was no without a cost.

“I felt my hamstring, similar to last week, and I just wanted to get it checked out,” said the 24-year-old who has never won the progressed beyond the last eight of the Parisian indoor event and admitted to high hopes of another Masters 1000 title after winning in Shanghai.

“I’ll have to monitor it. Everyone has niggles at this stage of the season and you have to deal with them. I felt it early on, it might have been to do with the early start. Maybe I didn’t warm up as well as I normally would.”

Nevertheless Murray was elated by the way outplayed Roddick on a slower Bercy surface that was far more conducive to his game than the American’s

The Scot enthused: “He’s been number one in world, a Grand Slam champion, one of the best players in the last 10 years and always difficult to play against,” continued the world number three.

“I started the match really well and got up an early break. He’s a player who can build pressure by serving well and goes after you in return games, but because I made a good start I was able to dominate.”

Murray maintained the courts are “so slow, so much slower than last year.” Roddick added things has been slowed down considerably from last year. “It certainly makes for an entertaining first five minutes when you hit,” he said.

But Frenchman Jo-Wilfried Tsonga once again resorted to the familiar balls debate. “What I would have liked is other balls that would have been better for my game,” he said.

“The surface is not that slow. It’s because of the balls. The players are saying it’s the surface but it’s not. It’s not a measure of the surface. I try to play with the newest balls—as soon as I have a new ball I play a lot better.”

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Topics: Andy Murray, Bnp Paribas Masters