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Murray a doubt for Barcelona
Scot set for scan on elbow injury ahead of Barcelona Open
credit: By Jamie Casey - Follow me on Twitter @caseyja. Last Updated: April 16, 2011 8:26pm
Andy Murray could have a scan on an elbow injury on Sunday to determine whether or not he can participate in next week's Barcelona Open.
The Scot played through the pain barrier in defeat to Rafael Nadal in the Monte Carlo Masters semi-final on Saturday, going down 6-2 2-6 6-1 in just under three hours.
Murray required an injection in order to face the Spaniard but, having taken the second set, his condition deteriorated as he bowed out of the competition.
"Certainly I'll have an MRI scan, maybe tomorrow," he said. "You sometimes get like a bit of bone basically that has fallen off.
"It sounds worse than it is, but it's basically floating around in the joint. So every time I bend it, I get of a lot of, like, clicking.
"It just feels really bruised because I obviously had a couple of injections. There's blood and stuff going in there.
"It was good because I managed to play. But I would have liked to have finished the match a bit better."
Murray coasted into the last four with a straight sets win over Portuguese qualifier Frederico Gil on Friday, when he first felt the injury.
"Yesterday at the beginning of the second set I felt something, but I managed to play through it," he said.
"This morning I was hitting, warming up fine. I went to hit some serves; I couldn't serve."
Difficult
Murray admits he found it difficult to focus on his game as he tried to shrug off the injury, but in Nadal, who is chasing a seventh successive Monte Carlo Masters title, he found an obstacle too difficult to overcome.
"When you do have an injury, it's sometimes difficult to concentrate," said the 23-year-old.
"Against someone like him, you need to play every single point, concentrate from every single point to the last.
"You can't just throw games, hope to hang onto your serve. You need to play every single point to put pressure on him."
Murray is taking positives from the loss though, having competed strongly against clay-master Nadal for the majority of the match.
"I thought it was a good match, but I think I can play better," he said.
"It's good to know you're able to play at a similar level to what he does on the clay. To win against him, you need to be able to do that for three and a half hours, four hours.
"The matches that he's lost on clay the last few years have been normally long ones. He's the best player in the world for a reason."
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^ ^ RaFaEl NaDal @Monte Carlo 2011 by angi_11 (imposter)
