CHASKA, Minn. -- Hannah Green never felt more nervous than standing over a 5-foot par putt Sunday at Hazeltine National with a chance to win her first major at the KPMG Women's PGA Championship.

Neither did Karrie Webb, who has won seven majors in her Hall of Fame career.

Webb watched from outside the ropes, her heart racing. It was 11 years ago in Minnesota that Webb started a scholarship program to bring young Australian amateurs to majors to spend a week with her and experience golf's biggest events. Four years ago, Green was one of those scholarship winners.

And now she's a major champion.

Green held her nerve to the end, hitting 8-iron to 15 feet for a pivotal birdie on the 16th hole, and getting up and down from a bunker on the 18th hole for an even-par 72 and a one-shot victory over defending champion Sung Hyun Park.

"I can't believe I'm in this position right now," said Green, a 22-year-old Australian in her second year on the LPGA Tour. "I've always wanted to win an event, and to win a major championship as my first is crazy."

She became the first wire-to-wire winner of this major since Yani Tseng in 2011, and even more amazing is who she held off to claim the silver trophy. She started the final round with a one-shot lead over Ariya Jutanugarn, the most powerful player on tour and a two-time major champion. Jutanugarn didn't make a birdie in her round of 77.

Then it was Park, another former No. 1 and two-time major winner, making an 18-foot birdie putt on the final hole for a 68 that left Green no margin for error.

Watching it all unfold was Webb, as clutch as there was in her prime, the only woman to capture the "Super Slam" of five different LPGA majors. She stayed with Green in a house during the past week, along with the two most recent scholarship winners -- Becky Kay and Grace Kim -- who were draped in Australian flags at Hazeltine.

"I feel like I won a golf tournament today I'm so excited for her," Webb said. "You didn't do it yourself, but you supported someone who realized that dream."

They all charged the 18th green to celebrate with Green, spraying her with cans of beer in true Aussie fashion. It's become a tradition on the LPGA Tour for friends to spray winners with water bottles, and Webb would not allow that to happen.

"It was Budweiser," she said.

Green, who won three times on the Symetra Tour in 2017 to earn an LPGA Tour card, became the first Australian to win an LPGA Tour major since Webb won her most recent one, in 2006 at the Kraft Nabisco Championship.

"I'm speechless," Green said as she fought to get the words out through such strong emotions. "I was really nervous playing the last five holes."

She finished at 9-under 279 and won $577,500.

It was hard work, even though Green never surrendered the lead on a cloudy day at Hazeltine with some light drops of rain at the end.

Green rolled in a 5-foot birdie putt on the par-5 seventh for a three-shot lead. With the group ahead still waiting to tee off, a 7-year-old girl handed her a blue sheet of paper. It was a poem she wrote to Green, along with the words, "You can win this." Green, who had given Lily Kostner a golf ball at the ANA Inspiration this year, read the poem and hugged the girl, and then drilled another tee shot to birdie range.

"I had it in the back of my yardage book because I didn't want it to get rained on," Green said. "A couple times on the back nine when I was feeling nervous and had some time, I actually read it to myself."

The nerves didn't really leave, especially after Green made three bogeys in a four-hole stretch that dropped her to 8 under, a four-shot lead suddenly down to one.

Mel Reid closed with a 66 and posted at 6-under 282.

Nelly Korda was one behind until a soft bogey on the par-5 15th. Park birdied that hole to get to 7 under, and Green couldn't afford any mistakes. It looked as though she had it wrapped up when she made a 15-foot birdie putt on the 16th, the signature hole at Hazeltine, followed by a par on the 17th.

Park wasn't finished, however, and she hit her tee shot so hard on the 18th that it went through the corner of the rough into the fairway, setting up a tidy approach to the back pin position and one final birdie.

Green answered that challenge with the bunker save, and the celebration was on with Webb and the two scholarship winners, plus Stacey Peters from Golf Australia and Green's boyfriend, Jarryd Felton, who plays on the PGA Tour of Australasia.

"I always wanted to win in front of an Aussie crowd," Green said. "That's what it was like today. I'm over the moon."

Korda (71) and Reid tied for third, while Lizette Salas (72) and Danielle Kang (70) were four shots behind. The surprise was Jutanugarn, who started the final round one shot behind on a course that measured nearly 6,800 yards, perfect for her power. She tied for 10th.

Green becomes the 10th player to win the past 10 majors on the LPGA Tour, a sign of growing parity. She also is the third winner in the past five LPGA majors who had never won on the LPGA Tour.

Los Angeles is wasting little time pitching Kawhi Leonard on a potential move to the Clippers.

Two digital billboards went up over Interstate 5 in Downey, about 10 miles southeast of Staples Center, encouraging the Southern California native to come home.

Free agency around the corner? Must be billboard season in LA. pic.twitter.com/2MAVZ8Yvwx

— Andrew Greif (@AndrewGreif) June 24, 2019

One bears an image of a California license plate personalized to read "KAWHI," with the hashtag #ClipperNation; the other reads "King of SoCal," with the hashtag #KAWHI2LAC.

A team source told ESPN's Ohm Youngmisuk that "the Clippers knew nothing" about the billboards.

Leonard, 27, is expected to be a prime commodity on the free-agent market this summer after leading Toronto to its first NBA title.

Teams can start negotiating with free agents next Sunday, though no deals can be signed until July 6.

Let's admit it: When your name is Will Smith and you're playing for the Los Angeles Dodgers in the shadow of the "Hollywood" sign that sits up in the Santa Monica Mountains, it's going to be difficult to divert attention away from that other guy named Will Smith, who also works in Los Angeles.

Well, this is a good way to do it. The Dodgers' Smith pinch-hit with two outs and two on in the bottom of the ninth of a tie game with the Colorado Rockies on Sunday and delivered a three-run walk-off home run to send Dodger Stadium into a fever of joy:

WEST SIDE WALK IT OUT. pic.twitter.com/DqNiS8QoZS

— Los Angeles Dodgers (@Dodgers) June 23, 2019

Smith, a rookie catcher drafted 32nd overall in 2016 out of Louisville, had played in six games with the Dodgers earlier this season, hitting a walk-off home run for his first major league homer to beat the Phillies on June 1. He had just been recalled before the game to replace injured David Freese. With Matt Beaty on second base, Rockies manager Bud Black elected to intentionally walk veteran Russell Martin to have Scott Oberg instead face Smith.

Oops.

These walk-off home runs have become standard fare in L.A. It was the third game in a row the Dodgers hit one to sweep the Rockies -- and all three were hit by rookies, Beaty taking hero honors on Friday and Alex Verdugo in the 11th inning on Saturday.

Two rookie walk-offs wasn't enough?

HOW ABOUT THREE? pic.twitter.com/c7NmPCilrL

— Los Angeles Dodgers (@Dodgers) June 24, 2019

Remember when the #Dodgers were the first team in MLB history to have rookies hit walk-off homers in two straight games? That's so yesterday. pic.twitter.com/g5K4mwlS4Y

— Los Angeles Dodgers (@Dodgers) June 24, 2019

WOW!!!!!! UN.REAL!!!!!! IS THIS REAL LIFE?!! #WalkoffsAreFun

— Enrique Hernández (@kikehndez) June 23, 2019

The Dodgers became just the sixth team to hit walk-off home runs in three consecutive games, joining the 2013 Rangers, 2004 Tigers, 2000 Royals, 1999 Diamondbacks and 1998 Tigers, and the first to do it with three rookies. (In fact, they were already the first team to have rookies do it in two consecutive games.)

What a weekend at Dodger Stadium as the team improved to 54-25. The New York Yankees have been hot, but the Dodgers are clearly the best team in baseball right now, with the best record in the majors, in the much tougher league, as they head to 55 wins in the first half.

This weekend not only showcased the Dodgers' depth of the 40-man roster, but also showcased why they're headed to a seventh straight division title -- with maybe the best team of the run, even better than the 104-win team of 2017. Consider the astute drafting:

-- The Dodgers took Smith as a supplemental first-round pick (acquired for losing Zack Greinke as a free agent). They liked his defense at Louisville, but his bat has been good enough to allow him to advance quickly -- he's hit .291/.397/.609 at Oklahoma City. In the same draft, the Dodgers selected infielder Gavin Lux with the 20th overall pick and he has become a top-30 prospect, hitting .310 at Double-A Tulsa. Given that several of the top-10 picks from that draft have struggled, getting Lux and Smith late in the first round looks like a steal.

-- Verdugo was a second-round pick in 2014 out of a high school in Tucson, Arizona. Many teams saw him as a pitcher with his low-90s fastball, but he wanted to hit and the Dodgers liked him in that role as well. Verdugo would have played regularly for a lot of teams last season, but had to wait his turn. The trade of Yasiel Puig and injury to A.J. Pollock opened up playing time this year, and Verdugo is hitting .302/.352/.489.

-- Beaty was a 12th-round pick in 2015 from Belmont University in Nashville, Tennessee, not exactly a baseball powerhouse, but he hit .382 his junior season with more walks than strikeouts. He has hit .308 in his minor league career (he missed most of last season with a torn thumb ligament) and has made himself more valuable with his ability to play first base, third base and left field. He's hitting .333/.352/.478 in 69 at-bats.

When you're not picking high like the Dodgers, it becomes more difficult to build through the draft, but they've added depth and built one of the top farm systems by crushing those late first-round selections (Walker Buehler is another example) and finding other gems later in the draft (such as Cody Bellinger in the fourth round).

You won't believe this, but more crazy stuff happened with the Mets: The Cubs beat the Mets 5-3 on Javier Baez's three-run homer off Seth Lugo in the bottom of the eighth:

Javy, PLEASE.

Javy, THANK YOU. pic.twitter.com/aHA1oAZprI

— Chicago Cubs (@Cubs) June 23, 2019

Baez's home run came off an 0-2 sinker from Lugo -- well, it didn't sink enough as he probably wanted to bury it in the dirt -- and while 0-2 is usually an out for most hitters, Baez isn't a normal hitter:

All MLB hitters in 2019
On 0-2: .152 AVG/.397 OPS
After 0-2: .165/.464

Javy Baez in 2019
On 0-2: .314 AVG/1.057 OPS, 4 HR (35 AB)
After 0-2: .296 AVG/1.076 OPS, 9 HR (73 PA)

— Jordan Bastian (@MLBastian) June 23, 2019

Anyway, the Mets. Too often, they just can't get out of their own way. Lugo has actually been the team's best reliever this year, so that wasn't the crazy thing that happened. After the game, tension escalated in the clubhouse when manager Mickey Callaway cursed out Newsday beat writer Tim Healey, and then pitcher Jason Vargas, in the words of Daily News writer Deesha Thosar, "took steps toward Healey looking for a fight before the two were separated by a handful of people." The confrontation with Callaway resulted when Callaway walked past Healey following his postgame news conference and Healey said, "See you tomorrow, Mickey," which the manager interpreted as the reporter being sarcastic. Callaway turned back to Healey and spewed out a string of words not suitable for print here.

The Mets issued a statement after the game: "The Mets sincerely regret the incident that took place with one of our beat writers following today's game in the clubhouse. We do not condone this type of behavior from any employee. The organization has reached out and apologized to this reporter and will have further discussions internally with all involved parties."

Is this a big deal? Probably not. Hey, maybe Vargas stepping up for his manager can even be viewed as a little team bonding. Or maybe it's the just the beginning of the final disintegration. Callaway may already be on edge after the team fired pitching coach Dave Eiland and bullpen coach Chuck Hernandez a few days ago, and this certainly isn't going to please management. While Sunday's loss was painful, the series against the Cubs wasn't a complete disaster as they split four games. Still, the Mets fell to 37-41 and they haven't won a road series since early April. It's time for the Mets to beat up on some opponents, not reporters.

Phading Phillies: Heck, the Mets aren't even the biggest disaster in the NL East right now. The Marlins beat the Phillies 6-4, completing a series sweep and extending the Phillies' losing streak to seven. Jordan Yamamoto picked up his third win for the Marlins in three career starts and Miami pounded out 16 hits. The Phillies have lost 16 of 22 and dropped nine games to the Braves in the standings in that spell.

Phillies fans let out a chorus of boos when Roman Quinn popped out to end the game.

As Scott Lauber wrote for the Philadelphia Inquirer, this is not what owner John Middleton paid for in believing the Phillies had constructed a World Series contender. They've been outscored 43-15 in the seven-game skid. "It's not good," Bryce Harper said.

There are few Phillies who might be expected to perform better -- Harper, for starters, although his high strikeout rate suggests he's not going to suddenly go on a big binge. J.T. Realmuto and Jean Segura have been minor disappointments. The back of the rotation has been awful, but most teams have struggled with the backs of their rotations. The Phillies really just look like a .500 team and I don't see much reason to expect them to go 20 games over .500 the rest of the way. Indeed, FanGraphs currently projects a final record of 81-81. Next up: four games at home against the Mets. It feels like an important series for both teams.

Run of the day: The Pirates beat the Padres 11-10 in a wild extra-innings game (Kirby Yates finally blew his first save of the season), but check out Fernando Tatis Jr. scoring on an infield pop-up. I'm pretty sure I've never seen this before:

Fearless Fernando.@tatis_jr • #FriarFaithful pic.twitter.com/nkoKJPqnVE

— San Diego Padres (@Padres) June 23, 2019

If you didn't watch the entire replay, Tatis was ruled safe upon review. This kid is absolutely electrifying and is hitting .323/.387/.571 after going 2-for-4 with two walks Sunday. He probably missed too much time with his hamstring injury to warrant All-Star consideration, but he is fifth among NL shortstops in WAR and two of those ahead of him (Trevor Story and Corey Seager) are currently on the injured list. Maybe the point isn't that Tatis deserves to be on the All-Star team, but he has certainly played like an All-Star when healthy.

Verlander avoids the sweep: It wasn't a fun trip to the Bronx for the Astros as the Yankees took the first three games of the series -- running Houston's losing streak to seven, their longest since a seven-game skid in June 2015. On Sunday, Justin Verlander finally turned things around, holding the Yankees to three runs on four hits in seven innings, and the Astros' lineup smashed four home runs. One of those came from Yordan Alvarez, his seventh in 12 games:

Yordan + Yuli = Cuban connection! #TakeItBack pic.twitter.com/cOOFRgiBLI

— Houston Astros (@astros) June 23, 2019

OK, seven bombs in his first 12 games is amazing. He's the fourth to do it, joining Trevor Story (2016), Trey Mancini (2016-17) and Dino Restelli. What, you've never heard of Dino Restelli? Me neither.

He hit seven home runs in his first 12 games for the Pirates in 1949 -- and just six more in a brief major league career that was over in 1951. Just a fluke? Probably, although one issue was he wore glasses and they would constantly fog up in the East Coast humidity. (He kept a bright red bandanna in his back pocket to clean his glasses, a habit that apparently ticked off opponents.) Early in his career, after a glasses-cleaning timeout, Ewell Blackwell hit Restelli in the back of the neck. One theory says Restelli was never the same after that.

Anyway, I'm pretty sure Yordan Alvarez will have a much longer career than Dino Restelli.

WATKINS GLEN, N.Y. – Sunday at Watkins Glen Int’l was the last Hoosier Racing Tire SCCA Super Tour race east of the Rockies this year.

As such, many competitors based in the eastern portion of the United States had one final shot at claiming a Hoosier Super Tour win in a race hosted by SCCA’s Finger Lakes Region.

The Spec Miata class saw a repeat winner Sunday in Elivan Goulart, in the No. 70 KRUGSPEED/SCDA1.com/Kessler Engineering/SCDA Driver Development Mazda Miata.

Goulart positioned himself in front of Tyler Kicera and Danny Steyn before a full-course caution came out on lap nine and ended the race early for contact back in the 23-car field.

Calvin Stewart, the overall and Formula 500 class winner with one lap to go, pulled out of the lead and let the Formula F drivers wage a fantastic battle.

“They put on an awesome show,” said Stewart, driver of the No. 7 SabbathTruth.com-backed Hoosier Tires Novakar Blade F600. “I saw them in my mirrors and I wanted to see them go across the line, so I let them go.

“I wanted to see them side by side,” he added. “It was really cool!”

Dexter Czuba, Tyler O’Connor and Josh Green all took turns at the front of the Formula F field during the race. But Green, driving the No. 82 Dufour Aerospace Mygale, was in front by .050 seconds at the stripe.

“All three of us were bumper to bumper the entire race,” Green said. “There was a lot of strategy the two laps before with each of us placing ourselves and trying not to lead onto the back straightaway. Tyler set that up the best by being third and having a two-car draft, but he just didn’t suck up enough. I was able to lead through the back section, and when I was able to defend going into turn eight, that was enough for the win.”

A 14-lap race with no caution flags allowed Tim Kezman’s No. 44 Porsche 997.2 to turn the tables on Kurt Rezzetano’s Pontiac Firebird in the Touring 2 class.

“It started the way it should have,” Kezman said. “Kurt jumped ahead, and we stayed with him a little bit. We tried to wear him down. We got lucky we didn’t get a yellow this time. We just out lasted him. He probably burned his tires off a little bit. It was a good race.”

Winged open-wheel cars and Prototypes saw a full-course caution with a green flag coming back out with three to go. That gave Ahsen Yelkin a chance to keep his No. 79 Everclear Swift 014 Formula Atlantic in front of Larry Howard to the finish for an overall win.

Yelkin powered away in the straights, but saw Howard close up under braking.

With temperatures climbing throughout the day, the Production and Big Bore groups had a hot, slippery track to contend with. It didn’t slow the racing, however.

Eric Vickerman, in the No. 10 The Vickerman Gang Austin Healey Sprite, dashed away from VW Rabbit drivers Jason LaMatta and father Vincent LaMatta in H Production. The LaMattas finished on the podium behind Vickerman, with father Vincent earning the silver medal.

“It’s a hot day out today,” Vickerman said. “Vince got the best of me on the start and dashed out a little bit. I just put my head down and tried to pull away a little bit and pace myself. It was a long race today.”

Jim McAleese drove his No. 03 McAleese & Associates/Jetco Engineering Chevrolet Camaro to a GT-1 win on Sunday after a mechanical ended his day just three corners from the checkered flag on Saturday.

“Everything was great today,” McAleese said. “The car held together like a beast. This is so much fun. The traffic with us racing together, we’re completely side by side the entire race. This is really racing. It’s completely awesome. I had more fun out there than I’ve had in years.”

In the same group, Amy Aquilante and her No. 57 TAR/Hoosier/Hawk Pontiac Firebird held off the Chevrolet Camaro of Philip Smith for an American Sedan win.

“It was a blast out there,” Aquilante said. “We finally got the car to finish. We had a little bit of issues yesterday but, man, it was hooked up out there. It was a fun race. Me and Phil were going at it for a while and, luckily, we were able to get through traffic smoothly and keep together. It was a blast.”

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An emotional Marta bid farewell to another unsuccessful World Cup campaign on Sunday with a challenge to Brazil's women: work harder and do more if you want to win.

With tears in her eyes after the 2-1 extra-time loss to hosts France, the woman considered by many to be the greatest ever to play the game said the future of Brazilian soccer was dependent on new generations pushing themselves.

"It's about wanting more, it's about training more, it's about looking after yourself more, it's about being ready to play 90 minutes and then 30 minutes more," Marta said after Brazil went down to a 107th-minute goal in Le Havre.

"So that's why I am asking the girls. There's not going to be a Formiga forever, there's not going to be a Marta forever, there's not going to be a Cristiane. Women's football depends on you to survive. Think about it, value it more."

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Looking straight at the camera with a mix of sadness and defiance, she said: "Cry now so you can smile at the end."

Marta was once again one of the stars of the World Cup with her goals against Australia and Italy taking her overall total to 17, the most of any player in the history of the game.

And though the future of the six-times FIFA world player of the year is uncertain, the 33-year-old gave no sign she would quit after France, her fifth World Cup.

"It was a great experience for all of us, and now it's time to take advantage of this exposure and make the women's game even bigger and better," she said.

"The World Cup has ended for Brazil, but we need to keep on going. Next year we have the Olympics. And we are very grateful about all the love that came from our country during this run."

The Brazilian side who came to France looking for their first World Cup win surpassed expectations, winning two out of three group games after losing all nine of their warm-up matches ahead of the tournament.

With the future of veterans such as Formiga, 41, now in doubt, coach Vadao said they would now look to blend new talent with experience.

"There is a renewal taking place but, going forward, there shouldn't be too many changes," he said. "Players like Marta and Cristiane should be playing for a few more years yet."

Matthew Wade continued his staggering form on the Australia A tour of the UK with a record-breaking 155 in a comfortable seven-wicket win over Derbyshire.

Wade smashed 155 off just 71 balls to help Australia A stroll to their target of 284 in just 35.2 overs. He set a new record for the fastest List A century by an Australian, reaching the milestone in just 45 balls after passing 50 in just 20. He eclipsed the previous record held by former Victoria teammate David Hussey.

Wade also posted the second fastest 150 in List A cricket. He took 68 balls to get there, four slower than AB de Villiers' effort against the West Indies at the SCG in the 2015 World Cup.

Wade clubbed 14 fours and 11 sixes, just three days after scoring 117 from 67 balls in Australia A's win over Northamptonshire.

It was not Derbyshire's first choice attack though, with 18-year-old James Taylor opening the bowling on List A debut while Fynn Hudson-Prentice was playing just his third List A game. But Wade has monstered attacks of all experiences at domestic level over the past 12 months.

"I'm happy with the way I'm striking the ball, that's for sure," Wade said. "Any time you can go out and get a hundred is nice. To strike it like that in the first two games is certainly satisfying. I know that I can improve in areas of my game.

"Any attack that I've come across in the short formats over the last 12 or 18 months, I've been pretty positive. I know that if I'm positive in the mind I'll certainly perform at my best rather than just looking to get in and build and innings. That probably hasn't worked for me over a period of time now."

Wade played as a batsman only in the first two games, with Peter Handscomb taking the gloves, but he is set to keep wickets in the next upcoming matches, against Worcestershire and Gloucestershire.

Earlier, Andrew Tye claimed 6 for 65 to help restrict Derbyshire. The hosts were in a strong position with Leus du Plooy making 115, his fifth List A century, while Wayne Madsen added 48 to propel them to 4 for 202 with 11.3 overs remaining. But Tye took six of the last seven wickets to give the visitors a comfortable target to chase.

"I haven't played a 50-over match since October last year," Tye said. "It took me a little bit of time to find my feet but once I got going it was pretty good for me. I've been trying to be more consistent with my stock ball.

"The feedback I've got from the selectors with my one-day cricket is I need to be able to be more of a useful weapon in the powerplay and through the middle overs. Just to be able to get that consistency working and that's something I've been working hard on throughout the IPL and leading up to this tour."

Sean Abbott picked up 2 for 40 and Michael Neser 1 for 48.

Wade made light work of the chase despite the early loss of D'Arcy Short. Skipper Travis Head played a nice supporting role making 68 in a partnership of 205 in just 21.2 overs.

Andy Murray says winning a doubles title five months after thinking his career might be over is more special than many of his singles wins.

Murray and Feliciano Lopez beat Joe Salisbury and Rajeev Ram 7-6 (8-6) 5-7 10-5 in the Queen's final on Sunday.

Former world number one Murray had a hip resurfacing operation - from which no-one has ever returned to play singles - in January.

"I've won with a metal hip. It is mental really," the 32-year-old said.

Murray had the resurfacing operation - where the femur head is smoothed and capped with metal - just 157 days before he returned to competitive action at the west London club last week.

That came shortly after he broke down in tears at the Australian Open, saying he thought he would not be able to continue playing if he had the operation.

Murray, who has won 45 singles titles - the last of which was in Dubai in February 2017- said he was in constant pain as he struggled to play with his two children, sleep and even put on his socks.

But, following the operation by Royal surgeon Sarah Muirhead-Allwood, the Scot he has been given a new lease of life.

"This is very different for me and it's more special than a lot of the singles tournaments that I have won for a lot of different reasons," the three-time Grand Slam champion said.

"It's a cool thing to be able to have done, because of where I was a few months ago.

"Even as far as just two months ago, I just wasn't thinking about this. It was not something that I was driven to get back to, playing here.

"I was just really, really happy just to be pain-free and enjoying life, literally just doing normal things. So it's really special."

'I was expecting my hip to be sore'

Murray has been in regular contact with Bob Bryan, the American 23-times Grand Slam doubles winner, who had the same operation, and says he has been surprised at not feeling any pain in the hip this week.

Bryan also started playing competitively again about five months after his operation, reuniting with his brother Mike at the Australian Open in January.

"In terms of hitting the ball and the skill level, I don't think that that's something that goes away," Murray said.

"It's the physical side of things and sometimes the mental, like the nerves.

"I expected something in my hip. I expected it to be sore, but I literally have nothing there.

"I spoke to Bob about that and he said in Australia he had a few little aches and pains.

"For me, it had been probably five or six years, where after matches I would get some pain and aching and throbbing.

"Things like that that, you would just anticipate and be waiting for that to happen.

"It doesn't any more and it's brilliant."

A possible US Open return?

Murray said if he were unable to return to singles, he would "probably consider" becoming a full-time doubles player.

But the two-time Olympic gold medallist is not ruling out a singles return at the tournament where he won his first Grand Slam title in 2012 - the US Open.

"I think I have a couple of options after Wimbledon," he added. "Either I continue with doubles but start training and practising singles through the US Open swing, and then try to maybe play singles after that.

"Or I take a longer break post-Wimbledon of maybe, let's say, a month or six weeks to get myself ready for singles and then try and play close to the US Open time."