 Andy Murray's wrist injury is still giving him pain |
Andy Murray is targeting the ATP tour event in Los Angeles on 16 July for his comeback after being forced to withdraw from Wimbledon with a wrist injury. The 20-year-old Scot's coach, Brad Gilbert, told BBC Sport: "He can't play a topspin forehand at the moment.
"And the doctor thinks he is about 10-14 days away from being able to let it go properly.
"Hopefully, in a week and a half or so, we'll go to the States to train and he'll be ready for Los Angeles."
Murray had left it until the day prior to Wimbledon before conceding defeat in his efforts to recover fitness.
"The reason he left it to the last minute was because every day you think you are going to wake up and it's going to be that much better," Gilbert explained.
The American said that Murray would find it tough to sit on the sidelines, especially after also having to miss the French Open.
 | There was no point going out there if he was not 100% and risk further damage |
"He is one of the three or four best grass court players in the world, so he is going to be frustrated," he said.
"But you have to take the doctor's advice and I think, in the back of his mind, Nicolas Kiefer is just coming back after missing a year; Paradorn Srichaphan has been out half a year.
"Two years ago, Mardy Fish missed a whole year. It's the new fashionable injury, the wrist."
Earlier in the day, Murray's decision had also been supported by former British Davis Cup team-mate Greg Rusedski, Tim Henman's coach, Paul Annacone, and former Wimbledon champion John McEnroe.
Murray's mother, Judy, also thought that her son had made the right choice.
"It's coming up to a very important time of the year for him, the American hard-court season," she said.
"It's his best surface and he has a lot of points to defend because he did very well there last year.
"He could not hit through or over his forehand and was still feeling pain in his wrist.
"There was no point going out there if he was not 100% and risk further damage.
"The tennis circuit is 11 months - it's not just the Wimbledon fortnight - and it's important for him to be fit for the long term.
"Much as he was desperate to play, it was not worth the long-term risk."
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