Andy Murray was extremely disappointed with his Monte Carlo Masters performance and hinted he may sit out the remainder of the clay season. On Monday, Murray got demolished by Alex de Minaur as the Australian beat the Briton 6-1 6-3 in the Monte Carlo first round.
Murray admitted he didn’t have big expectations for Monte Carlo but underlined that he also didn’t expect to perform so badly against de Minaur. “I’m pretty disappointed with it, to be honest, because I practised well last week.
Obviously, I didn’t have high expectations going into the first tournament, I wasn’t expecting to play amazing tennis or feel great on the court, but certainly when you put a certain level of work in and that’s the performance that comes at the end of it, it’s pretty demoralising.
I have to have a long think about things with my team and what I do from here,” Murray said, via Tennis Majors.
Murray ‘pretty disappointed’ with his performance against de Minaur
Last year, Murray appeared in just one clay tournament.
In general, Murray hasn’t played much on clay since suffering a serious hip injury in 2017. Murray, the 2016 French Open runner-up, recently said he would like to compete at Roland Garros at least one more time before he retires.
But Murray’s French Open return is in serious doubt after what happened in Monte Carlo. “There’s not really any options tournament-wise. Last year, we had looked into the possibility of playing potentially some hard court Challengers.
But with the way the rules are now, like the ones that are over in Asia, for example, I can’t go and play them during Madrid and Rome. I’m not allowed to play elsewhere. So it’s just whether I play the clay court season or whether I miss it.
I have to have a long think about things with my team and what I do from here, in terms of where I train or do I stick on the clay. It was, it was pretty, pretty disappointing,” Murray said.
