Andy Murray withdraws from French Open to give attention to grass-court season

Andy Murray has withdrawn from this 12 months’s French Open to prioritise the grass-court season.

The former Wimbledon champion, 36, has struggled to seek out his greatest kind in latest weeks, making early exits in all major clay-court occasions of the season.

Murray has solely performed at Roland Garros as soon as since 2017 and has by no means gained the match – though he reached the ultimate in 2016.

The French Open begins subsequent week, with 14-time champion Rafael Nadal also announcing days ago that he was pulling out.

Murray remains to be contemplating which grass-court tournaments to focus on, the PA news company mentioned.

They might embody Surbiton, which runs 4-11 June, after which Queen’s from 19-25 June.

Wimbledon is scheduled to begin on July 3.

Murray has been attempting to to revive his profession after main hip surgical procedure in 2018.

He gained his first title in almost 4 years, beating Tommy Paul within the remaining of the ATP Challenger occasion in Aix-en-Provence earlier this month.

But he was overwhelmed within the first spherical at clay-court occasions in Monte Carlo, Madrid and Rome.

This week made one other early exit on clay after dropping to Stan Wawrinka at an ATP Challenger occasion in Bordeaux.