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By Alberto Amalfi | Tuesday, November 26, 2019

 
Andy Murray

Former world No. 1 Andy Murray is convinced he can compete in Grand Slams without worrying if his surgically-repaired hip will hold up for best-of-five set matches.

Photo credit: Mark Peterson/Corleve

Andy Murray will arrive at the 2020 Australian Open with major confidence in his surgically-repaired hip.

The former world No. 1 is convinced he can compete in Grand Slams without worrying if his hip will hold up to the rigors of best-of-five match play. 

Murray: Make Doubles Mandatory

Murray met with the media in Great Britain to promote Amazon's feature-length documentary, Andy Murray: Resurfacing, which will be available on Amazon Prime Video starting on November 29th.




The three-time Grand Slam champion conceded he thought his competitive career could be done prior to his comeback from hip resurfacing surgery he underwent on January 28th following a tearful Australian Open exit.

It was Murray's second hip surgery in a year.

Nearly 10 months after his surgery, the 32-year-old Briton claimed his 46th career title and first since Dubai in February of 2017 when he fought off 34-year-old Stan Wawrinka, 3-6 6-4 6-4 in front of a packed house at the European Open in Antwerp.

Murray says he won't stress about his hip in 2020.

"I know I'll be able to compete in major tournaments without having to worry about it," Murray said. "I've played three-set matches and some long ones recently, but the best of five is an extra hour, hour-and-a-half on top of that so I'll find out in Australia.

"At the beginning, you're thinking about it after every movement you make and that's not a good way to go into competing but now I'm not thinking about it when I'm playing."

His recovery has been successful with Murray growing stronger as the season progressed.

The five-time Australian Open finalist says his Melbourne mission is simple.

"I was asked what would be success in Australia and I don't know how I'll perform," Murray said. "I'm not expecting to win the [Australian Open] but if I can play a five-set match and get through and have no ill effects on the hip... that's success."




The two-time Olympic gold-medal champion, whose wife Kim gave birth to the couple's third child earlier this month, provided filmmakers with behind-the-scenes access tracing the challenges he faced in his comeback.

The film captures the moment Murray thought his playing days were done.

In the aftermath of Murray's punishing 6-7(5), 6-3, 7-6(4) triumph over Marius Copil that sent him into his first quarterfinal in over a year at the 2018 Citi Open in Washington, D.C. the Scot broke down sobbing.



Murray confesses in the film he was weeping because he believed his career was over.

"I was really, really emotional at the end of the match because I feel this is the end for me," Murray says in the film. "My body just doesn't want to do it any more and my mind doesn't want to push through the pain barrier any more. I was just hoping I was gonna feel better than this after 16, 17 months.

"It's just an emotional night because I felt I'm coming to an end. I'm really sad about that because I want to keep going but my body is telling me 'no'. It hurts and I'm sorry, I can't keep going."

 

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