Andy Murray is hopeful of being fully fit for the US Open; Johanna Konta and Laura Robson say Scot will be highly motivated to go deep in New York; watch the US Open live on Sky Sports from August 28, with qualifying on Wednesday & Thursday from 4pm
"He's now getting the time off that he needs and, although he will be disappointed to miss out on a seeding, when you get to New York, when you get to the pressure of a Slam, when you play under the lights at the US Open, anything can happen. So I feel like Andy's still very much in the mix."Konta on what players think when they face Murray
"It could be nice to see Murray make it deep in the tournament," said Konta, the former world No 4."It will be nice to see him playing because it's a while since people have seen him play. "What he's still got going for him is that players still think of Andy and what Andy was like years ago, so players still step on court thinking 'I'm really in it now, I'm going to have to die for each point just to get anything' so that locker room persona still helps him even though he's not the player that he was.
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