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Andy Murray in US Open primary draw after Stan Wawrinka withdrawal

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Andy Murray in US Open main draw after Stan Wawrinka withdrawal

Andy Murray received males’s singles gold on the 2012 and 2016 Olympics however withdrew from the occasion in Tokyo

Andy Murray has been added to the US Open primary draw after Swiss former champion Stan Wawrinka withdrew.

Murray, who received his first Grand Slam title on the event in 2012, pulled out of the boys’s singles occasion on the Tokyo Olympics with a thigh pressure.

The 34-year-old Briton continued to play within the doubles and misplaced within the quarter-finals alongside Joe Salisbury.

Murray made it to the Wimbledon third spherical in July, dropping to Canada’s Denis Shapovalov in straight units.

It was the primary Grand Slam Murray had performed in 2021, after lacking the Australian Open due to a optimistic coronavirus check and deciding to not compete in June’s French Open.

The 2-time Wimbledon champion, who had hip surgical procedures in 2018 and 2019, misplaced within the second spherical to Canadian Felix Auger-Aliassime on the 2020 US Open.

Wawrinka, who received the occasion in 2016, withdrew because the 36-year-old continues to recuperate from foot surgical procedure.

The US Open runs from 30 August-12 September.

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