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Ankle injury leaves Andy Murray in race to rescue his Wimbledon farewell

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Andy Murray faces a race to be fit for Wimbledon and his final grasscourt season after suffering a serious ankle injury at the Miami Open.

Murray turned his ankle in the latter stages of a third-round defeat by Tomas Machac on Sunday and continued playing, seemingly untroubled by the injury.

But, following a scan, the Briton revealed he had suffered a full rupture of his

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