{"id":17045,"date":"2021-06-29T09:57:51","date_gmt":"2021-06-29T04:27:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/?p=117632"},"modified":"2021-06-29T10:02:19","modified_gmt":"2021-06-29T04:32:19","slug":"wimbledon-2021-andy-murray-overcomes-basilashvili-and-sealed-a-battle-victory-on-his-return-to-singles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/tennis\/wimbledon-2021-andy-murray-overcomes-basilashvili-and-sealed-a-battle-victory-on-his-return-to-singles\/","title":{"rendered":"Wimbledon 2021: Andy Murray overcomes Basilashvili and sealed a battle victory on his return to singles"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Andy Murray beat Georgian Nikoloz Basilashvili 6-4, 6-3, 5-7, 6-3 and sealed a battle victory on his return to singles at the Wimbledon tournament from 0-5 to 7-5 and two match points saved.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">After four years away,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/andy_murray?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@andy_murray<\/a>\u00a0makes his return to singles at <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Wimbledon?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#Wimbledon<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/tUDGmHY9BA\">pic.twitter.com\/tUDGmHY9BA<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Wimbledon (@Wimbledon) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Wimbledon\/status\/1409554384149692424?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 28, 2021<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Two times champion Andy Murray will be facing any one of the Germany\u2019s Oscar Otte or France\u2019s Arthur Rinderknech to secure a place in the last 32.<\/p>\n<p>Murray has been very unlucky with his health and fought a prolonged battle with hip and groin injuries in recent years. It\u2019s been four years to his previous appearance at Wimbledon where he lost to Sam Querrey in five sets in the quarter-finals and its his first singles win at the tournament since 2017.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">\u2764\ufe0f this sport.<\/p>\n<p>R1 \u2705<\/p>\n<p>\ud83d\udcaa\ud83d\ude05<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/AMC?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#AMC<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/7GJoKCVkJ5\">pic.twitter.com\/7GJoKCVkJ5<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Andy Murray (@andy_murray) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/andy_murray\/status\/1409631488132345859?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 28, 2021<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-transform: initial\">\u201cIt has been extremely tough, even in the last few months. It was not the most serious of injuries but it was frustrating not to be able to get on the court.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>I have had so little momentum over the last few years but I kept going on to the gym. I am trying to get back to do it again,\u201d said Murray.<\/p>\n<p>The champion of 2013 and 2016, has a long-standing hip problem that needed surgery, the reason impelled him a saddening edge of retirement.<\/p>\n<p>Back-to-back Olympic gold medalist Murray told that he plans to keep playing.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI keep being asked if it will be my last Wimbledon.\u00a0<span style=\"text-transform: initial\">I can still play at the highest level\u2026.I keep going,\u201d told Andy Murray.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Andy Murray beat Georgian Nikoloz Basilashvili 6-4, 6-3, 5-7, 6-3 and sealed a battle victory on his return to singles\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":169,"featured_media":37792,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[326,476,1526,1969,202,250],"class_list":["post-17045","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-tennis","tag-andy-murray","tag-atp","tag-olympics","tag-oscar-otte","tag-tennis","tag-wimbledon"],"reading_time":"2 min read","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17045","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/169"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17045"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17045\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/37792"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17045"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17045"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17045"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}