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Tennis star: Murray plans his grand slam comeback at the Australian Open

2019-10-08T05:32:19.724Z


At the Australian Open this year announced an injury planned Andy Murray his resignation. A year later he wants to return to the Grand Slam stage. His appearance in Melbourne is firmly planned.



Two-time Olympic gold medalist Andy Murray makes his comeback at the Australian Open (January 20 to February 2, 2020) after more than a year of abstinence on the grand slam level. This was announced by the organizers of the hard court tournament on Tuesday. The former world number one had in the first round of the Australian Open in January 2019, in pain and tears his last single in a Grand Slam denied and first announced his career end, before he entered after a hip operation and months of failure but again in the tournament scene was.

For the re-participation in Melbourne, the fallen on world rank 289 place Murray uses its "Protected Ranking", which is entitled to any injured player for more Profitour. The Scot had returned to the ATP Tour after his injury in August.

After initial difficulties in the first tournaments, the 32-year-old played in the 500th tournament in Beijing last week to the quarter-finals, at the Masters in Shanghai, he reached on Monday by a three-goal victory against Argentinian Juan Ignacio Londero the second round.

At the Australian Open Murray was already five times in the final, but left each as a loser the place.

Source: spiegel

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