Andy Murray shines before light fades as match backlog hits Queen’s

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The revolving door of tennis swivelled with dizzying speed again here , but stalled briefly as Andy Murray confirmed his comeback win was no chimera. He remains tantalisingly poised short of the semi-finals in a tournament he has won a record five times, five months after career-saving hip surgery, and just hours after his Argentinian friend, Juan Martín del Potro, cast doubt on his own future before an operation on his cracked knee-cap.

Murray and Feliciano López, who beat the No 1 seeds Juan Sebastián Cabal and Robert Farah in straight sets on Thursday, went to work in fading light on Friday against the British pair, Dan Evans and Ken Skupski, in another tight thriller. They were 6-4 up and 4-5 down when a high-grade contest was called off under gloomy skies at 8.50pm, half an hour before sunset on the longest day of the year.

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Written by Kevin Mitchell at Queen’s Club
This news first appeared on https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2019/jun/21/andy-murray-queens-feliciano-lopez-tennis under the title “Andy Murray shines before light fades as match backlog hits Queen’s”. Bolchha Nepal is not responsible or affiliated towards the opinion expressed in this news article.