Three-time Grand Slam champion Andy Murray on Wednesday said he is "still going in the right direction" and is determined to make a strong finish to an "up and down" year.
The 36-year-old former world number one reflecting on his year so far, said: "Look, I would like the year to have gone better, for sure.
"There have been some good moments, but also some tough losses as well," said Murray, who had career-saving surgery in 2019 and now plays with a metal hip.
His five-set defeat in the second round at Wimbledon to fifth seed Stefanos Tsitsipas, having been ahead when the match was forced into the next day because of a tournament curfew, still rankles.
Murray suffered an abdominal injury at the Canadian Open last month and went out in the second round at the US Open, where he is a former champion, in straight sets to Grigor Dimitrov.
Murray, who felt he started 2023 especially well and reached the final in Qatar, said: "It's been up and down."
"I got up to my highest ranking a few weeks ago since I had the hip operation so that's positive and shows that although it's not as fast a trajectory as I would have liked, I'm still going in the right direction.