Andy Murray injury: Brit explains back problem after Queen’s exit

Murray made his long-awaited return at Queen’s yesterday after spending almost 12 months sidelined with a hip problem.

The Scot shot out of the blocks to take the first set 6-2 in front of a packed out home crowd.

However, midway through the battle his performance began to dip as Kyrgios took the second set.

And to make matters worse, Murray consistently grabbed at his back in the final set, raising suspicion of a possible set-back to his recovery.

But Murray confirmed the problem was only fatigue caused by a lack of game time.

“My back got a bit stiff yeah, in the beginning of the third set, but it feels okay just now,” Murray said.

“I think that was just a bit of fatigue.

“I mean, it is amazing how, like it was literally on the sort of the time, I guess it was like an hour 45 minutes, hour 50 minutes in, which is like literally 10, 15 minutes more than what I have been doing in practice.

“Your body is thinking, what's going on?

“You should be in the locker room now.

“Hopefully I'm getting through a match like that, like I said, hopefully the body remembers that it needs to be able to do that for a little bit longer.”