• The 36-year-old Scot has been struggling with injury
• Former US Open champion may need a wild-card entry

Andy Murray has been included in the entry list for next month’s French Open but Emma Raducanu, fresh from her success in Great Britain’s qualification for the Billie Jean King Cup finals, may yet need a wild card for Roland Garrros.

The 36-year-old Murray has been struggling with injury since he was forced to withdraw from last year’s French Open and he ruptured ankle ligaments at the Miami Open last month. But the former Wimbledon champion is listed at 56 in the 99 players named with five weeks to go before the qualifying rounds begin.

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• Murray ruptured his ankle ligaments at the Miami Open
• 36-year-old pulls out of Monte Carlo and Munich events

Andy Murray has withdrawn from the early stages of the European clay court season and he continues to weigh up his options as he faces a race against time to be fit for Wimbledon after tearing his ankle ligaments at the Miami Open last weekend.

In his final year on tour, Murray had seemingly planned to embark on his longest clay season since his hip problems began, competing at all the big venues one last time. He has now withdrawn from the Monte Carlo Masters, which begins in just over a week on 7 April and the Munich ATP 250 event, which starts on 15 April.

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• Murray loses 7-5, 5-7, 6-7 (5) to Czech in third round
• Scot felt ankle injury before tie-break but carried on

For three hours and 28 minutes, Andy Murray battled with everything he had, even when he almost had ­nothing. First he played brilliantly in the early stages against the talented Tomas Machac, but he just could not find a way to close it out. Then just as the match seemed to be passing him by, Murray mounted an ­incredible comeback. In the final, decisive moments, Murray hurt his left ankle, yet somehow he still ­battled on.

In these last months of one of the great careers of this century, the Scot gave yet another demonstration of his resilience and heart, but it still was not enough. He limped out of the Miami Open on Sunday with an agonising 5-7, 7-5, 7-6 (5) defeat to Machac in the third round.

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• Murray defeats Argentinian world No 30 7-6 (0), 6-3
• Jack Draper loses in three sets against Chile’s Nicolás Jarry

Andy Murray picked up his most impressive win of the year so far with a straight-sets victory over Tomás Martín Etcheverry at the Miami Open.

Murray swept past the Argentinian, ranked 30 in the world, 7-6 (0), 6-3 in a rain-interrupted match to reach the third round. The 36-year-old Scot gained a measure of revenge for his defeat by the same player in the first round of the Australian Open in January.

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• Murray overcomes Italian opponent 4-6, 6-3, 6-4 in first round
• Jack Draper steams past Japan’s Taro Daniel 6-3, 6-2

In a season where wins have been extremely hard to come by, Andy Murray was rewarded for his perseverance in a brutal first-round match at the Miami Open as he recovered from a set down to outlast Matteo Berrettini 4-6, 6-3, 6-4.

The victory was only Murray’s fourth of the year and it sets up a second-round encounter with Tomás Martín Etcheverry, the 29th seed, who consigned the Briton to a straight-sets defeat in the first round of the Australian Open.

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• Briton beaten 7-6 (3), 6-1 by number five seed
• Murray failed to take four points for first set

Andy Murray played at a high level for an extended period against one of the best players in the world, but he was outperformed in the decisive moments by Andrey Rublev, the fifth seed, who saved four set points before defeating Murray 7-6 (3), 6-1 in the second round of the BNP Paribas Open.

Indian Wells has often been Murray’s bogey tournament, with the slow, high-bouncing courts and gusty wind often leaving him vulnerable to early exits even at the peak of his career, but he showed that he was striking the ball well by reaching the second round with a clinical performance over David Goffin. A much more difficult task awaited in Rublev.

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• Murray loses 6-2, 6-4 to Frenchman in second round in Dubai
• 36-year-old suggests he would like to compete at the Olympics

Andy Murray’s search for back-to-back wins goes on after he was comfortably beaten by Ugo Humbert in the second round of the Dubai Duty Free Tennis Championships.

Murray produced his best win for several months in the first round by seeing off Denis Shapovalov but fell to a 6-2, 6-4 loss against 18th-ranked Humbert.

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• Murray through to second round with second win of 2024
• Briton brings up 500th hard-court victory of his career

Andy Murray dug deep to secure a second win of 2024 with a 4-6, 7-6 (5), 6-3 victory over Denis Shapovalov in the first round of the Dubai Open . The three-time grand-slam champion has been forced to fend off retirement talk after a string of first-round defeats and looked set for another when Shapovalov, a former top-10 player, claimed the opening set.

Murray had struggled with the serve of his 24-year-old opponent, but produced a gutsy display to edge a second-set tie-break and kept his composure to break twice in the decider to secure a much-needed win after two hours and 33 minutes.

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• Jakub Mensik, 18, wins 7-6 (6), 6-7 (3), 7-6 (4) in over three hours
• Murray said to himself mid-match: ‘You don’t believe in yourself’

Andy Murray’s considerable efforts to rebuild his faltering form took a crushing blow on Wednesday as, despite fighting hard for more than three hours, his nerves betrayed him in the decisive moments against the impressive 18-year-old Jakub Mensik and he eventually succumbed in the second round of the Qatar Open. At three hours 24 minutes, it was the longest match in the tournament’s history.

Throughout his dire past six months on the tour, Murray has insisted that he has been performing well in practice and he has simply struggled badly to produce the same level under pressure in matches. His performance on Wednesday further underlined that rather than his body betraying him, as would be expected from a 36-year-old with a metal hip, at the moment he simply cannot get out of his own head.

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