By Chris Oddo | Monday March 27, 2017
Andy Murray's elbow injury will cause him to miss Davis Cup and could keep him out until early May.
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World No.1 Andy Murray could miss six weeks due to what his brother Jamie called a “tear” in his right elbow. Reports came out of Miami, where Jamie Murray is playing doubles at the Miami Open.
Here are the quotes, from an article written by Simon Briggs of the Telegraph:
“It’s some sort of tear in his ¬elbow,” said Jamie Murray after he and his partner Bruno Soares had moved into the quarter-finals of the doubles here at the Miami Open.
“He said he can do everything ¬except serve and he told me rest was all he had to do.
“I am not planning that he is ¬going to be there [in Rouen to face France next week at Davis Cup]. If he is, then, obviously great for the team and we’ll see what happens, but the most important thing for him is just to get healthy because he has had a few issues now.
“He has had shingles and he has had his elbow. He was sick here as well [with flu] for two or three days after he pulled out of the tournament. I think he just needs to get a bit settled and get a good crack at it over the next three months -because there’s a lot of big tournaments to play.”
According to Briggs, the talk in the locker room is that Murray might not return to the tour until Madrid, which takes place from May 7-14. Murray and his management company have yet to make a statement about the severity of the injury.