Murray allays Wimbledon fears
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Murray allays Wimbledon fears
Andy Murray has played down fears a thumb injury could keep him out of Wimbledon.The British number one withdrew from his Artois Championships quarter-final against Andy Roddick at Queens on Friday after spraining his right thumb.He suffered the injury during his third-round victory over Latvia's Ernests Gulbis on Thursday and, with Wimbledon around the corner, chose not to risk making matters worse.Murray said: "I could hit the ball decent but I couldn't hit a backhand volley and slicing was very sore."I had a scan and I haven't pulled anything, just sprained it a bit. It's obviously not terrible but it's just too sore to try and play a match."Hopefully in three or four days' time, I'll be able to hit some balls again."He added: "I wasn't going to damage it any further by playing, I was just going to prolong the time that it was going to be painful for. If I played today I still think I would have been okay to play Wimbledon."There's no point going on the court feeling 50 per cent, not being able to hit a few of the shots."Murray, who missed Wimbledon last year with a wrist injury, left the field clear for the top four seeds - Roddick, Rafael Nadal, David Nalbandian and Novak Djokovic - to contest the semi-finals for the first time since 1990.
ITN | June 14, 2008
