Andy Murray shocked the US Open on Saturday night by withdrawing from the tournament due to his continuing hip problem.
The 2012 champion and now world No 2 made the announcement following a practice session with Frenchman Lucas Pouille overseen by head coach Ivan Lendl.
Murray explained that his attempts at rehab had failed to get him ready for two weeks combat at Flushing Meadows, and that he was withdrawing immediately.
Andy Murray has pulled out of the US Open after failing to recover from a hip injury
Murray made the announcement following a practice session with Lucas Pouille
It will be the first Grand Slam that he has missed since the 2013 French Open.
In a brief media conference he added that he would make a decision ‘over the next few days’ about whether to shut down his season altogether, but insisted that this was not inevitable.
Murray said: ‘I did pretty much everything that I could to get myself ready here and took, you know, a number of weeks off after Wimbledon. I obviously spoke to a lot of hip specialists.
He said he thought he had given himself enough time off after pulling out of Wimbledon
‘I tried obviously resting, rehabbing, to try and get myself ready here. I was actually practicing okay the last few days, but it’s too sore for me to win the tournament and ultimately that’s what I was here to try and do.
‘I certainly wouldn’t have been hurting myself more by trying to play. It was more a question of whether it would settle down in time.
‘I have never had to take any time off because of my hip before, we were hoping that by taking a few weeks off and resting and rehabbing and really reducing the load that I was putting it through, that I would be okay by the time US Open came around, but unfortunately that’s not been the case.’
He said he had tried resting his hip but the rehabilitation did not go to plan
Asked whether he would close his season down now he responded: ‘I’ll definitely make a decision on that in the next few days. That’s something that I’ll sit down and decide with my team.
‘But I’ll decide on that in the next couple of days, for sure. I mean, if I get myself fit and healthy, there is no reason why I can’t get back. I have been practicing here and, you know, competitive in practice when I’m not moving close to how I can when I’m healthy.
‘I want to be back on court as soon as I can. If it means that, you know, I can play before the end of the year, then, you know, that’s what I would love to do. I miss competing, and I’ll try to get myself back on court as soon as I can.’
It will be the first Grand Slam that he has missed since the 2013 French Open