MASON, Ohio — Andy Murray described the roller-coaster ride he took at the Kings Island amusement park across Interstate 71 from the Western & Southern Open last week as “pretty intense.”
The same could be said for his tennis, which has twisted through emotional highs and lows as he has been roiled by a hip injury that required surgery.
Murray, 31, played his last match of the 2017 season at Wimbledon in July. At the time, he was the No. 1 player in the world. After missing nearly a year, his ranking sunk to 839th before rebounding this month to its current spot of 375th.