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Andy Murray vann i no grand slam-comeback.
0-2 deficit in sets and match point against him in his first Grand Slam singles match in more than a year and a half.
Then Andy Murray turned the marathon match with Yoshihito Nishioka around and moved on to the second round of US Open tennis after more than four and a half hours of play.
Andy Murray, a former world number one and 2012 US Open champion, had not played a single match in a Grand Slam tournament since he was forced to cancel his match in the first round of the Australian Open in January 2019.
Then he had serious hip problems and feared, with tears in his eyes, that his career was over. But a year and less than eight months later, she was back in the biggest contexts, in the first round of the US Open in New York.
Now Murray, ranked 115th, faced Japan’s Yoshihito Nishioka, ranked 49th, and immediately finished 0-2 behind in the set after 4-6, 4-6. Without having reached any higher level in his game.
But despite foot problems and a match ball against him, the 33-year-old Murray managed to return to the game against Nishioka, eight years younger. Murray won the third and fourth sets in the tiebreaker and led the match to a fifth set at an empty Arthur Ashe Stadium in the crown pandemic.
Murray and Nishioka remained in the deciding set before the shots broke Japanese serve to 6-4 and won the match after four hours and 39 minutes of play.
– I’m tired. My tears hurt the most, Andy Murray said in the victory interview after the game.
– It’s an emergency right now. My body hurts. I’m going to recover as best I can.
In the second round, Murray will face either Félix Auger-Aliassime from Canada or Thiago Monteiro from Brazil.
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