"I am happy I came" says Andy Murray after a positive experience at the Rome Masters

Andy Murray travelled to Rome in order to practice with the best in the world and his trip was reward with a chance to play in the doubles event with Broady.

When Andy Murray travelled to Rome he was doing it to practice with some of the best in the world. The British player has been working on a return to tennis taking every opportunity to play competitive tennis.

His stay in Rome included practices with Schwartzman and Novak Djokovic which many followed with great interest. He also got a chance to play in the doubles event with Broady as the pair won a match before losing the 2nd one. On the whole experience he said:

"It was good to get a couple of matches for both of us after Liam didn’t get into qualifying here and then obviously I was here practising but I knew as the week went on it was going to be a little bit harder to get match practice because most of the guys who lost would have been leaving."

Speaking on what he was doing in Rome he said:

“I got four practises with top-20 players, which is good. If we hadn’t got into the doubles I maybe would have got one more before heading off but I got a couple of matches instead. It was positive, I’m happy I came over here, learned a bit about my game and where I’m at."

For Murray, it was important to do it in order to test himself physically and he was content with the performance:

“I did pretty well physically for the first points and practise sets at this level for a long time. I was happy with that and hopefully will keep building the next few weeks.”