Andy Murray will play Australian Bernard Tomic in the Barcelona Open on Wednesday. The Briton, 29, acknowledged a late special case for Barcelona after his third-round annihilation by Spaniard Albert Ramos-Vinolas in Monte Carlo on Thursday.
It will give best seed Murray more match time on dirt before the French Open, which starts on 28 May. English number two Kyle Edmund is out of the Barcelona Open subsequent to losing 6-1 6-4 to Austria’s Dominic Thiem.
Murray played his first expert match at the competition in 2005, matured 17, where he lost to Czech Jan Hernych. The Scot was situated in Barcelona from the age of 15 and he went by the Barcelona foundation, which has named one of its courts after him.
“I was here in Barcelona for two years and I loved it. I would say that they were two of the best years of my life,” Murray said.
“It was the first time that I was
He played and lost his first expert match as a 17-year-old at the competition in 2005, losing to Jan Hernych, and he will would like to expand on the achievement he had on the earth courts a year ago.
Murray won the Rome Masters having achieved the last in Madrid and the semi-last in Monte Carlo in 2016 and he has work to do after his third-round annihilation to Albert Ramos-Vinolas, a conceivable quarter-last rival this week, in the Principality a week ago.
away from my family home and even though it was hard, it was the first time I’d tasted independence”.
Murray won his first title of clay court in Munich in 2015 and beat Rafael Nadal the next week to win the Madrid Masters.
He won the Italian Open a year ago and achieved the last of the French Open, where he lost to Novak Djokovic.
