Andy Murray plays down fears over workload

Brit boost: Andy Murray and Laura Robson celebrate together
13 April 2012

Andy Murray is confident he will be ready for the Australian Open despite limited time on court in his opening two matches at the Hopman Cup.

The world No4 opted to play at the round-robin tournament in Perth this year rather than defend his Doha title because of the guarantee of three singles matches.

Murray has, however, been on court for less than two hours as he breezed past Kazakhstan's Andrey Golubev on Monday before a 6-4, 6-1 win over Germany's world No27 Philipp Kohlschreiber in under an hour today.

Unless Great Britain reach the final, Murray has just one match left in Perth, against Russia's Igor Andreev on Friday, and is not scheduled to play again before the Australian Open begins on 18 January.

The 22-year-old is not concerned, however, saying that the additional workload of playing mixed doubles at the Hopman Cup will give him the match practice he needs.

"It's just spending time on court that you want," said Murray, after he and playing partner Laura Robson won their mixed doubles to secure a 2-1 win over Germany.

"If the games go longer that's a good thing but because we go straight out to play the mixed I probably had two-and-a-half hours on court in total and also warmed up for half an hour as well. It is enough. I don't want to play loads."

Robson lost her opening rubber with Germany's Sabine Lisicki 7-6, 6-3. The 15-year-old has now lost both her singles matches but believes she improved on her display against Kazakhstan's Yaroslava Shvedova, which saw her win a set.

She said: "The match was a lot better than Monday. I had chances in the first set, but she just played better."

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