Murray looked hampered by a back issue but is still entered in the doubles draw
The Brit was broken in the very first game of this match, where the combined age of the two men at 76 was the second-highest at Roland Garros for 50 years. He was then broken three more times across just over two hours as Wawrinka secured his 46th win at Roland Garros, the third most in the Open era.
Murray is a stark contrast. Nothing about him makes any sense. He is fast but looks slow, he is powerful but looks skinny, his formative years were spent on clay in Barcelona yet this is by far his weakest surface. And of late, Murray tries to shorten points rather than elongate them as he would in his pomp, and that held true in the opening set. When the rallies were four shots or fewer, he would win them.
“A rather sad way to see this match come to the end,” former world No 1 Jim Courier called it on commentary. The limping, grimacing Murray was a sorry sight indeed.Earlier, Jack Draper had admitted he was short on confidence after making radical changes to his game before a shock first-round defeat to qualifier Jesper de Jong.
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