• French Open

Murray battling knee injury

ESPN staff
May 25, 2010
Andy Murray struggled on serve at times against Richard Gasquet © Getty Images
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Andy Murray has admitted he is having to play through the pain of a knee injury.

The Scot produced a stunning fightback to silence a partisan Paris crowd and beat Richard Gasquet in five sets to reach the second round of the French Open.

Murray was frustrated with umpire Carlos Ramos at times, as he felt Gasquet was being allowed to get away with stalling tactics, but simply outlasted his French opponent. A four-hour match left Murray exhausted and it also did little to improve the knee injury he claims has been bothering him for most of his career.

"It's sore - my knee hurts," Murray told his personal website. "I just have to try and manage it. It hurts at different parts of the year, I can't do anything about it. It's just something I was born with, and will have to deal with for my whole career."

Murray toppled Gasquet in five sets at Wimbledon a couple of years ago and was thrilled to repeat the trick.

"I obviously did it against him a few years ago at Wimbledon and the crowd helped; whereas, today, it was pretty much only yourself who's got to get it back," the fourth seed said.

"They did get behind him, as you would expect. But I did feel like they were silent when I was hitting winners or playing good points. They do appreciate good tennis here, which is nice.

"It was a really good experience for me - especially when I was a long way behind - to come back."

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