Before the tour was suspended for the pandemic last year, the 34-year-old pulled out of Indian Wells after his pelvis had been bothering him.

This season, he was forced to skip the Australian Open after testing positive for Covid, and later withdrew from the ATP 500 in Dubai after revealing his wife Kim had given birth to their fourth child.

A groin injury then forced him out of the Miami Open, and Murray opted to spend extra time preparing for the grass court season instead of returning on the clay.

He’s now feeling positive about the state of his body after an encouraging couple of rounds in Cincinnati

“If my body doesn’t feel good, that is something that will influence my future, and if, after competing for a number of months, if my tennis is sort of going backwards, that would be another sign for me that things are not how I would like them to be. But I don’t see this week as going backwards,” he said.