{"id":17681,"date":"2024-05-21T11:16:34","date_gmt":"2024-05-21T11:16:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/geneva-open-andy-murray-on-brink-of-defeat-before-weather-intervenes\/"},"modified":"2024-05-21T11:16:36","modified_gmt":"2024-05-21T11:16:36","slug":"geneva-open-andy-murray-on-brink-of-defeat-before-weather-intervenes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/geneva-open-andy-murray-on-brink-of-defeat-before-weather-intervenes\/","title":{"rendered":"Geneva Open: Andy Murray on brink of defeat before weather intervenes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><b class=\"ssrcss-1xjjfut-BoldText e5tfeyi3\">Andy Murray was on the brink of a first-round defeat by Yannick Hanfmann at the Geneva Open before play was suspended because of bizarre weather conditions.<\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The former world number one was trailing 7-5 4-1 in Switzerland when rain started to fall and gusts of wind blew white pollen on to the court.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;It&#8217;s like it&#8217;s snowing out here and you still want us to keep playing,&#8221; Murray argued with umpire Greg Allensworth before it was decided the players should return to the locker room.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Play was cancelled for the day shortly after, and Murray&#8217;s match was rescheduled for Tuesday &#8211; not before 12:00 BST. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Fellow Briton Jack Draper&#8217;s match against Czech Tomas Machac has also been moved to Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Wildcard Murray was playing his first ATP Tour-level match since rupturing ankle ligaments at the Miami Open in March.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Unless he can produce a remarkable comeback against Germany&#8217;s Hanfmann, the Scot will miss the chance to play world number one Novak Djokovic in the second round.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Last week, 37-year-old Murray made his return at a clay-court ATP Challenger event in Bordeaux after <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/sport\/tennis\/68690971\" class=\"ssrcss-k8mrr8-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\">rupturing ankle ligaments<\/a> in March, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/sport\/tennis\/articles\/c6py2g3gzg2o\" class=\"ssrcss-k8mrr8-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\">but was knocked out<\/a> in the second round by Frenchman Gregoire Barrere.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The three-time Grand Slam champion has previously said he does not plan to &#8220;play much past this summer&#8221;, but has not announced where his final tournament will be.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Murray, who is ranked 75th in the world, has been named on the entry list for the French Open, the second major of the season, which starts on 26 May.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/tennis\/articles\/cq55re9ej7wo\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Andy Murray was on the brink of a first-round defeat by Yannick Hanfmann at the Geneva Open before play was suspended because of bizarre weather conditions. The former world number one was trailing 7-5 4-1 in Switzerland when rain started to fall and gusts of wind blew white pollen on to the court. &#8220;It&#8217;s like [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":17682,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17681"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17681"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17681\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17683,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17681\/revisions\/17683"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17682"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17681"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17681"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17681"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}