Andy Murray becomes latest Grand Slam champ to withdraw from French Open

Andy Murray grew to become the newest huge identify to withdraw from the French Open, with many studies saying the three-time Grand Slam champion is as an alternative turning his consideration in the direction of the grass courtroom season. 

The choice was introduced by match organizers on Sunday, in line with the Related Press. 

Andy Murray of the UK celebrates after successful his match in Spherical 1 of the 2023 Australian Open on January 17 2023, at Melbourne Park in Melbourne, Australia.  (Jason Heidrich/Icon Sportswire through Getty Photos)

Murray, 36, has reached the finals at Roland Garros simply as soon as in his profession when he misplaced to Novak Djokovic in 2016. 

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In response to a number of studies, Murray is skipping the match to prioritize Wimbledon the place he received in 2013 and 2016. 

Murray’s withdrawal follows the information that Rafael Nadal, a file 14-time winner on the French Open, can even miss the match. 

Britain’s Andy Murray leaves the courtroom on the finish of the boys’s singles first spherical tennis match towards Switzerland’s Stanislas Wawrinka on Day 1 of The Roland Garros 2020 French Open tennis match in Paris on September 27, 2020.  (ANNE-CHRISTINE POUJOULAT/AFP through Getty Photos)

He introduced at a press convention final week that he could be taking time away from the game altogether, in hopes of therapeutic a lingering hip harm that has sidelined him for a lot of the 12 months. 

“I must cease, I must cease for some time,” Nadal continued. “I don’t know after I’m going to have the ability to come again to the follow courtroom. However I’m going to cease for some time, perhaps two months, perhaps one month and a half, perhaps three months, perhaps 4 months – I don’t know.” 

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The admission that he has no set timetable for a return, means Nadal may additionally miss Wimbledon in July. Nadal additionally introduced that subsequent 12 months would seemingly be his ultimate 12 months enjoying on the ATP Tour. 

Rafael Nadal acknowledges the spectators after the boys’s singles 2nd spherical match towards Mackenzie McDonald of the US at Australian Open tennis match in Melbourne, Australia, on Jan. 18, 2023. (Bai Xuefei/Xinhua through Getty Photos)

Nick Kyrgios can even be absent from the French Open after his agent revealed that an harm he sustained throughout an armed automobile theft at his residence earlier this month has not healed correctly.  

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“We do not know when it occurred, but it surely’s fairly a big laceration. The placement of the wound, it has been open for nearly every week and a half now. It isn’t therapeutic accurately and he cannot put within the work on courtroom, so he is been off courtroom for nearly two weeks now,” his agent advised The Canberra Occasions.

Kyrgios is probably going eyeing a return earlier than the beginning of the grass courtroom season. 

The Related Press contributed to this report.