The three-time major winner and double Olympic champion pulled out of last year’s Australian Open to have hip surgery and only returned in June on grass at Queen’s Club in London and then played on the same surface at Eastbourne. Despite his truncated season Murray showed glimpses of his best — most notably in his third comeback event at Washington in August. He enters the Australian Open at 230. He was upbeat after winning his first match of the season at Brisbane last week but was easily beaten in the next round in straight sets by Russia’s world number 15 Daniil Medvedev. “I owed it to myself to give myself the best possible shot to get back to a level I was happy with.”

Source: The Guardian January 09, 2019 10:18 UTC