It’s a wrap: Murray back in training after injury but will not play again in 2020
Andy Murray will turn his focus to the 2021 campaign after deciding to call a halt to his season. Murray is back in training following a pelvic problem and the possibility was raised of him taking a wild card into this week's Rolex Paris Masters but the S cot was absent from the list announced last week.
The former World No 1’s representative has also said he will not be seeking entry into next week's Sofia Open, the final regular ATP tournament in 2020, and will instead prioritise preparation for 2021.
The 33-year- old is training at the National Tennis Cen - tre in London and will hope that a strong block will enable him to finally play something approaching a full schedule in 2021.
Murray missed the star t of 2020 following further hip issues and has only played seven matches this year, winning three. He will travel to Australia by mid-december at the latest in order to fulfil quarantine requirements prior to the start of the new season.
Andy Murray has brought his season to a close but is back in training following a pelvic problem.
The former world No 1 had been affected by tendinitis in his left psoas muscle, which connects the spine to the femur, since the US Open and pulled out of an ATP tournament in Cologne two weeks ago.
The possibility was raised at that point of Murray taking a wild card into this week's Rolex Paris Masters but the Scot was absent from the list announced last week.
There is one more regular ATP tournament in 2020, next week's Sofia Open, but Murray's representative said he will not be seeking entry into that and will instead prioritise preparation for 2021.
The 33-year- old is training at the National Tennis Centre in London and will hope that a strong block will enable him to finally play something approaching a full schedule in 2021.
Murray missed the star t of 2020 following further hip issues and has only played seven matches this year, winning three.
He will travel to Australia by mid-december at the latest in order to fulfil quarantine requirements prior to the start of the new season.
Murray's schedule is yet to be determined, with the ATP calendar still up in the air as coronavirus restrictions continue to present huge challenges for tournaments.
The ATP Cup, which pits national teams against each other, could go ahead in some form but Murray's lowly ranking of 118 means he would not be part of the Great Britain team.
He is almost certain to need a wild card for the Australian Open, which is due to begin on January 20 and is expected to be held in front of domestic fans.
Meanwhile, Dan Evans was beaten again by Stan Wawrin-ka at the Rolex Paris Masters in a "flat" end to his season.
The British No 1 had lost all four previous clashes with his Swiss rival, although he had held match points in t wo of them, including in St Petersburg last month.
This was another close contest, with a single break of the Evans ser ve early in the first set proving the difference as 12th seed Wawrinka powered to a 6-3, 7-6 (3) victory to move through to the second round.
Evans has had a strong indoor season, reaching the semi-finals in Antwerp and Vienna in the last two weeks, and he admitted he found it tough to go back behind closed doors in locked-down Paris.
"Today I found it especially difficult," he said. "We've had some fans back in the stadium sand today it was pretty dead. Such a big court.
"He played good. I only just got here, I had one hit, it was very different from last week, different conditions, different balls. Not a perfect end to the year but it probably summed up the year of 2020 for tennis, it was flat."
Evans finishes his season ranked 31, just three short of the career-high mark he hit in March.
The 30 -year-old has posted some of the best results of his career in 2020, beating eight top-20 players, a tally bettered only by Novak Djokovic and Dominic Thiem.