Tennis - French Open - Roland Garros - Paris - 26/05/2017 - Andy Murray of Britain attends a training session. REUTERS/Benoit Tessier
PARIS (Reuters) - Shorn of confidence and recovering from illness and injury, Andy Murray will hope he can avoid becoming part of an historic French Open double act when he faces in-form Russian Andrey Kuznetsov on Tuesday.
After making the Roland Garros final for the first time in 2016, the world number one's love affair with clay has turned sour this year, with recent losses to Borna Coric in Madrid and Fabio Fognini in Rome as he struggled to put a bout of shingles, and an elbow injury, behind him.
