British number one Andy Murray is refusing to blame the rain for his exit from the French Open.
The world number four crashed out in the quarter-finals on Tuesday 6-4 (3)6-7 6-3 6-2 in three hours and 45 minutes against David Ferrer.
The two players were forced to leave the court for just over 20 minutes due to a short rain delay with the match level at one set each. The Spaniard went on to claim the next two sets on their return to action but Murray says that the bad weather is no excuse for this.
"He started better than me after the rain delay but then I did break to get back in at 3-2 and was feeling okay," said Murray.
"Ideally I would have liked to have started a bit better. It was the same for both of us. It was actually probably better conditions to play in after we came back. After the rain delay there wasn't as much wind and the sun was out a little bit."
David Ferrer meets Rafael Nadal in the semi-finals.
Matt Cotton
