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Andy Murray staged an encouraging recovery from his miserable Chinese stint with a lengthy win over Yannick Hanfmann at the Swiss Indoors in Basel egame
The 36-year-old’s 7-5 6-4 win snapped a three-match losing streak in consecutive tournaments but he was forced to fight against the German world number 51 egame
Murray clawed through some marathon opening exchanges to wrest the advantage but was almost pushed into a decider by Hanfmann, who threatened the Scot’s serve throughout egame
The German briefly delayed Murray by converting his eighth break point of the match when he served for the match at 5-3, but Murray immediately responded in kind to seal his place in the next stage egame
Murray said in his on-court interview: “I’m happy to come through egame
He’s had a brilliant year and he’s been playing very well, so it’s a good result egame
“It was tough egame
The first four or five games were something like 45 minutes egame
I don’t remember having that really before, it was ridiculous egame
”Murray is making only his third career appearance at the event, having lost to Roberto Bautista Agut in the first round in 2022 egame
Murray lost in the second round in Zhuhai before successive exits at the first hurdle in Beijing and Shanghai to Alex de Minaur and Roman Safiullin respectively egame
At the Vienna Open, Dan Evans was forced to retire from his first-round clash with Frances Tiafoe due to a calf injury egame
Evans was 4-1 up in the opening set when he pulled up behind the baseline, with Tiafoe progressing to the second round egame
British number one Cameron Norrie was given a tough time by Austria’s world number 169 Filip Misolic before edging into round two egame
Norrie had to scrap through a tight first-set tie-break and was hauled back in the second set by the plucky home favourite before battling through 7-6 (7) 4-6 6-3 egame
Like Murray, Norrie was recovering from a fruitless swing to Asia having fallen at the first stage in Beijing and Shanghai, as well as last week’s Japan Open in Tokyo egame
Heather Watson fell in the first round of the Abierto Tampico event in Mexico, losing in three sets to Ann Li egame
Watson won the first set 6-4, but the American - ranked 50 places below Watson at 156 - raced through the second 6-1 and took the decider 6-3 egame
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First came the crack in Alexander Volkanovski‘s defence egame
Then, the crack in his voice egame
If the first crack was consequential, allowing Islam Makhachev to skim his shin off the Australian’s head, the latter was a consequence in itself – a consequence of one of the best fighters alive staying silent on his struggles with mental health egame
That is, until now egame
Volkanovski would have emerged from UFC 294 with credit anyway; he stepped in on 11 days’ notice and moved up in weight to challenge a man who had beaten him eight months prior egame
Even in this surprising, first-round defeat by Makhachev, Volkanovski lost very little egame
His featherweight title still rests firmly on his shoulder, and he will soon return to that weight class where he has been unbeatable egame
But soon may be too soon egame
In his post-fight press conference, Volkanovski began the dissection of this defeat – his second this year, but just his third as a professional mixed martial artist, with his first having occurred a long decade ago egame
The 35-year-old started to dissect the technical reasons for this knockout loss, but it soon became apparent what was of greater importance: the psychological reasons for his presence in Abu Dhabi egame
“He’s not somebody you should be taking a short-notice [fight] with, but I needed it,” Volkanovski began egame
“Obviously a lot of people will say it’s for the money and all that, but it was much more than that egame
It is hard, it is really hard for athletes egame
egame
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Sorry, um egame
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I never thought I would struggle with it,” he continued, ignoring the blood over his eye, instead wiping a tear from beneath it egame
“But for some reason when I wasn’t fighting or in camp egame
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F***, sorry,” he said, attempting a laugh, looking away and to the ceiling, then gently rapping his hand on the table to bring himself back into the room egame
RecommendedIslam Makhachev stuns Alexander Volkanovski with head-kick KO in first round at UFC 294Conor McGregor reacts to ‘illegal’ strikes in Islam Makhachev win at UFC 294Khabib explains why he wasn’t in Islam Makhachev’s corner at UFC 294“I was just doing my head in,” he continued, tears floating at the bottom of his eyes egame
“I needed a fight, and this opportunity came up egame
I’ll be honest: I wasn’t training as much as I should have, but I thought I had to do it egame
I had to take it egame
I’m telling myself, ‘It’s meant to be egame
’ I was struggling a little bit not fighting, doing my head in egame
I don’t know how; everything’s fine, I’ve got a beautiful family egame
But, I don’t know egame
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I think you just need to keep busy egame
I need to be in camp, otherwise, I’m going to do my head in egame
“It’s weird, [it’s not that I] never ‘believed in that stuff’, but I never got it egame
It was something that – I don’t know – maybe the more and more I learn about myself, the more I understand egame
I talked about us having a smile on my face, me and my wife egame
My wife could see it does get hard, I don’t know why egame
”Makhachev consoles Volkanovski after their fight, the main event of UFC 294 (AP)Volkanovski pointed to the birth of his third child, in August, and surgery on an injury this summer as reasons why he had not been training egame
Clearly, the knock-on effect of those moments – as joyous as the former seemed to be – has led Volkanovski’s mental health to suffer egame
Last week, all the talk was of how brave the Australian was to face Makhachev on short notice; braver was this admission that he is struggling, which simultaneously offers a different lens through which to view his choice to fight egame
Keeping himself engaged and busy is healthy, but that is complicated by the inherent risk in his profession egame
“Maybe it was just a silly decision under the circumstances,” he admitted egame
Perhaps it was, though it was also understandable egame
Volkanovski’s next challenge, however, will come outside of the ring egame
It must egame
He naturally sees the antidote to his current struggles as a quick turnaround to fight again, likely against the dangerous Ilia Topuria in January egame
Yet, that fight could go the same way as Saturday’s against Makhachev, if the Australian does not first tackle these thoughts and feelings, and find the right balance for him egame
We knew Alexander Volkanovski was brave egame
That is even clearer now than it was last week egame
Now, however, he must be sensible, and get to work outside the ring before he can return to work in it egame
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