ANDY MURRAY smashed his racket in rage as he crashed out of his newest event.
The battling Brit bought into his newest marathon match on the Swiss Indoors ATP 500 occasion in Basel.
Andy Murray set free his anger throughout his defeat to Tomas Martin EtcheverryCredit score: Prime Video
The Brit took the primary set however fell away because the match went onCredit score: Prime Video
He took the gruelling first set in opposition to Argentine Tomas Martin Etcheverry on a tie-break after 77 minutes.
And the world No40 regarded on target to say his finest win by rating since Might and file back-to-back victories, one thing he has not managed since August.
However the 24-year-old world No32 battled again to win 6-7 6-3 6-2 after three hours on courtroom.
And Murray couldn’t comprise his apparent frustration because the match slipped away from him.
The British tennis legend, 36, lashed out as he repeatedly slammed his body into the courtroom in his newest offended outburst.
Murray mangled a racket in his first-round defeat on the China Open to Alex De Minaur earlier than seeing three match factors come and go.
He was additionally visibly combating the physicality of the match, bending over from the center of the second set because the clock hit two hours.
Murray’s defeat is his fourth in 5 matches after early exits in Zhuhai, Beijing and Shanghai.
His solely win on this torrid run got here on Monday, when he wanted 84 minutes to win the primary set in opposition to Yannick Hanfmann.
And the Etcheverry loss – a reversal of their lead to Indian Wells this season – denied Murray the prospect to achieve his first ATP quarter-final since Doha in February.
To make issues worse, Murray stays behind British No2 Dan Evans within the rankings regardless of the Brummie pulling out of his first-round conflict with Frances Tiafoe in Vienna attributable to a calf harm that might finish his season.
With Cameron Norrie additionally struggling for type, it means the Nice Britain Davis Cup workforce are in dire straits forward of going through Novak Djokovic’s Serbia in November.
Murray has now misplaced 4 of his final 5 matchesCredit score: EPA