DUBAI, 27 Feb: Andy Murray hinted he is heading into the \u201clast few months\u201d of his career after rallying past Denis Shapovalov 4-6, 7-6 (5), 6-3 at the Dubai Championships for his 500th hard-court win.
\n\u201cI obviously still love competing and still love the game, but it obviously gets harder and harder the older you get to compete with the young guys and keep your body fit and fresh,\u201d the 36-year-old Murray said in an on-court interview after his first-round win on Monday. \u201cI probably don\u2019t have too long left, but I\u2019ll do as best as I can these last few months.\u201d
\nMurray, a three-time Grand Slam champion playing with an artificial hip, has considered retirement before. This was only his second win of the year.
\nAfter losing in straight sets to Tomas Martin Etcheverry in the first round of the Australian Open last month, Murray said it might be the last time he enters the season\u2019s first major.
\nMurray improved to 18-5 for his career in Dubai, where he lifted the trophy in 2017. He\u2019ll next face Ugo Humbert or Gael Monfils.
\nThe only other players with 500 hard-court wins in the Open Era are Roger Federer (783), Novak Djokovic (700), Andre Agassi (592) and Rafael Nadal (518).
\n\u201cObviously hard court has been a great surface for me over the years and 500 is a lot of matches so I\u2019m very proud of that,\u201d Murray said. \u201cThere are not many players that have done that, so great to get to 500 before I\u2019m done.\u201d (AP)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
DUBAI, 27 Feb: Andy Murray hinted he is heading into the \u201clast few months\u201d of his career after rallying past Denis Shapovalov 4-6, 7-6 (5), 6-3 at the Dubai Championships for his 500th hard-court win. \u201cI obviously still love competing and still love the game, but it obviously gets harder and harder the older you […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-235742","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/235742","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=235742"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/235742\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=235742"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=235742"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=235742"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}