Andy Murray revealed the extent of the pain he was going through due to his hip injury, in a phone interview with The Times’ Stuart Fraser along with other British journalists.
Murray, who has been sidelined with the injury since Wimbledon last July, underwent surgery on his right hip in Melbourne on Monday, and says he is “very optimistic” about the future after going under the knife.
Murray had been sceptical about having surgery but believes it was the only choice.
“I’m very optimistic because, having spoken to the surgeon after he did the surgery, he was very happy about how it went,” Murray told The Times and other British reporters.
“He felt that my hip will be feeling better than it did a year ago.”
Murray also said he will be planning his schedule more carefully and not play as many tournaments in order to preserve his body.
“At Wimbledon basically everything was hurting,” he said in the same interview.
“I had never been in pain like that before. Whereas now the thing that was stopping me from playing and the reason why I decided to have the surgery was because I was struggling basically to do extensions…
“I was nervous this morning but it was the right decision to make,” he said of his surgery.
“I was struggling. I’ve been in pain walking since before Wimbledon. It’s got better but still it’s extremely tiring mentally when every single time you are walking that you are feeling your hip, from the minute that you wake up in the day and start walking to when you lie down at night.”
Murray is hopeful he’ll be back on tour for the summer’s grass season. He will have been out of action for nearly a year.
