Murray booked for Beijing

Murray: Beijing bound

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Andy Murray has confirmed that he will represent Great Britain at the Olympic Games in Beijing this summer.

The British number one insists he has no problems travelling to China, despite the fact the event is so close to the US Open.

Murray, 20, will be hoping to follow in the footsteps of former Davis Cup team-mate Tim Henman by winning a medal for Britain.

Henman came home with a silver in the doubles playing alongside Neil Broad at the 1996 Olympics in Atlanta.

Honour

"I'm definitely going to play the Olympics," Murray said. "It's something that not all athletes get the chance to do in their career.

"It's an honour to represent your country and I'm looking forward to it."

There have been calls for athletes to boycott the event due to China's human rights record, something Murray does not intend to do himself.

"For me, the Olympics is more about the sport," he added.

"I'm just concentrating and looking forward to playing in the tennis. I'm not a politician."

Clay building

Before Murray can think too much about the Olympics he first has to get ready for the start of a busy claycourt season on the ATP Tour.

After missing out last year due to a wrist injury that also stopped him playing at Wimbledon, the Scot is looking forward to playing on the surface this season.

Despite being sidelined in 2007 it is a surface he is familiar with after he spent most of his teenage years at the Sanchez-Casal Academy in Barcelona.

He said: "I missed the whole of the clay court season last year because of my wrist injury so I'm hoping I can get a good run this year and not have any problems with injury.

"I practised on it a lot when I was younger and had good results on. When I went over to practice in Barcelona I won some tournaments on the clay so it's a court I can play well on.

"But I've hardly played on clay for the last couple of years so I'm going to try and get some good practice in and try and get used to it again."