{"id":353825,"date":"2017-06-30T14:30:46","date_gmt":"2017-06-30T06:30:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/people.utm.my\/asmawisham\/lendl-confident-murray-will-be-fit-to-defend-wimbledon-title\/"},"modified":"2017-06-30T14:30:46","modified_gmt":"2017-06-30T06:30:46","slug":"lendl-confident-murray-will-be-fit-to-defend-wimbledon-title","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/asmawisham\/lendl-confident-murray-will-be-fit-to-defend-wimbledon-title\/","title":{"rendered":"Lendl confident Murray will be fit to defend Wimbledon title"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Murray has twice pulled out of matches at a grasscourt exhibition tournament in London this week because of a hip problem but Lendl said the 30-year-old Scot was likely to resume practice at Wimbledon on Friday. “We’ll see what the weather is like,” Lendl said. “If the weather is good, I am sure we will practise.”<\/p>\n

Asked whether he was concerned about Murray’s Wimbledon campaign, the Czech said: “Not at all. Unlike before Paris, he is hitting the ball really well. Practice has gone well.”<\/p>\n

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Video –<\/span> Murray injury: ‘Of course there is concern,’ says Maclagan<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Murray was knocked out of the semi-finals of the French Open in Paris by Stan Wawrinka<\/a> earlier this month but lost his only tour outing since that match to lowly-ranked Australian Jordan Thompson on the grasscourts of Queen’s Club.<\/p>\n

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Video –<\/span> Highlights: Murray suffers shock first round exit at Queen’s Club<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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“I wasn’t really surprised,” Lendl added. “The first match on grass is always tricky. The guys who beat Stan Wawrinka, Milos Raonic<\/a> and Andy had played qualifying or the previous week at a tournament. We have seen that movie over and over.<\/p>\n

“Guys play matches, feel a little bit more comfortable than the guys who didn’t play.”<\/p>\n

Roger Federer<\/a>, seven times a champion at the All England Club, said he was convinced Murray would be on court for his first round match at Wimbledon on Monday.<\/p>\n

“I expect him to play unless I have missed something completely,” the Swiss said.<\/p>\n

“I would know more about it, I think, if it had been a really significant injury. The way I know Andy, he’s tough as nails and I feel like he\u2019s going to be there on the opening Monday.<\/p>\n

“He would need to be significantly injured not to play. For me, if he can get through that first round and feel better afterwards, absolutely he should play.”<\/p>\n

Top seed Murray will discover his first round opponent when the draw is made later on Friday. (Reporting by Nick Mulvenney editing by Peter Rutherford)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Murray has twice pulled out of matches at a grasscourt exhibition tournament in London this week because of a hip problem but Lendl said the 30-year-old Scot was likely to resume practice at Wimbledon on Friday. “We’ll see what the weather is like,” Lendl said. “If the weather is good, I am sure we will […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5817,"featured_media":353826,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[71,59,70],"class_list":["post-353825","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-media","tag-eurosport","tag-media","tag-sport"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/asmawisham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/353825","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/asmawisham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/asmawisham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/asmawisham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5817"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/asmawisham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=353825"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/asmawisham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/353825\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/asmawisham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/353826"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/asmawisham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=353825"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/asmawisham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=353825"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/asmawisham\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=353825"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}