Aidan McHugh: 'It would be great to see Andy Murray start training again'
An 18-year-old Glasgow native Aidan McHugh is one of the most promising youngsters from Great Britain, winning two Futures titles in Kuwait at the end of the last season to crack the top-500 and set the perfect ground for more significant progress in 2019. After the changes that ATP and ITF implements, Aidan has lost all of his points and he is currently unranked on the ATP list, standing outside the ITF Rankings as well and opening the season with three mediocre results in M15 Tunisia events. Andy Murray's 77 Sports Management Agency is taking care of McHugh's career and the youngster had the opportunity to work with the three-time Grand Slam champion in Miami in December while Andy was trying to make a comeback from a hip injury.
As we all know, Murray lost that epic Australian Open encounter to Roberto Bautista Agut in four hours and nine minutes, battling with both the rival and huge pain that encouraged him to undergo the second hip surgery in order to prolong his career or end it permanently. Aidan said he had worked with Andy for four or five days at Crandon Park where a former world no. 1 trained on a very high level, determined to make a comeback but being let down by his body again. The youngster is hoping the best British player of the Open era will be able to recover completely and play again, with the entire tennis world expecting to see him injury-free and competitive again after everything he has achieved in the last 12 or 13 years.
“I’m quite lucky because I have a high transition tour ranking so I can get into a lot of the tournaments just on that,” said McHugh. “The rankings change is not going to help me, but it is not terrible either. Some of the guys at the Challenger Level have had to drop down so ‘futures’ events like this are a bit stronger. But you are going to have to play them anyway, so it is not like it is a disaster. I went out early with Andy and started in Miami at Crandon Park, I was there with him for four or five days then I went to IMG for the British camp. Andy was working away as normal back then, he was looking good, moving well, a high level in the practices and I enjoyed it. But I think he was just in too much pain. I don’t know how long it takes to recover, before he can start training again. But hopefully he does – it would be great.”
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