ANDY MURRAY saw his Wimbledon dreams crash down around him as injury wrecked his quarter-final against Sam Querrey but he vowed: There was no way I was quitting.
Murray could hardly hit a ball by the end of his five-set defeat to American Querrey as the hip injury that had hampered him all tournament finally began to take its toll.
The world number one was blown away in the last two sets, winning just two games, as he hobbled his way through the match in front of a packed Centre Court.
But Murray insisted retiring never entered his mind – and he still feels he came close to making to through to the semi-finals.
Murray said: “I was pretty close today. It wasn’t like I was, like, a million miles away from winning the match.
“Obviously the end was a bit of a struggle. But, you know, I almost found a way to get into the semis. I wasn’t that far away from doing that.
“The whole tournament I’ve been a little bit sore. But I tried my best right to the end.
“I knew I wasn’t going to do any major damage by playing. So obviously I wanted to try, if possible, to find a way at the end. Obviously it wasn’t the case.”
Murray will now go away with his team to decide on what needs to be done to resolve a condition that he admits is getting worse as he gets older.
But he has vowed to do whatever is needed to ensure he is back on the court and challenging by the time of the US Open in September.
He added: “I managed to get through a bunch of matches and did okay. Now I’ll sit down with my team and look at the next step, look a little bit longer term.
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“The US Open is six or seven weeks away, something like that.
“So I will sit down with my team tomorrow and come up with a plan for what I have to do next.
“I’ll get the best advice I can, then stick with that.
“If it means taking a few weeks’ rest, then so be it. If it means training and doing the right rehab and stuff, then I’ll do that.”
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