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Former world number one Andy Murray revealed he is struggling to practice in ‘the right way’ as he prepares to skip the clay season entirely to focus on the grass season in the summer.

Murray suffered a 6-4 6-2 defeat to world number two Daniil Medvedev in the second round at the Miami Open. His performance was particularly uninspiring, with even Tim Henman - a keen advocate of Murray - admitting on Amazon Prime that it wasn’t a good outing by the Scot.

The former British number one recently announced he will skip the clay season entirely in order to prepare for the grass season. Murray will return to action and likely compete in the Queen’s Club tournament before attempting to embark on a fairytale run at Wimbledon.

“My level of tennis is obviously not right now where it needs to be to win matches like that, today there were some good signs on the court but the two key things are serve and return – I didn’t do either of them particularly well,” Murray revealed. “I think ( coach Ivan Lendl ) some clarity over the right way to play and the right way to practice, I don’t feel I have been practising the right things for 18 months or so and it is difficult to undo that in the space of a few weeks.

“Hence that is one of the reasons I am taking a big period of training to try to change some of those things and get my game into a place where