Andy Murray feels like he's playing for his career every time he takes the court after recent losses to lowly ranked opponents, but the injury-ravaged former world No. 1 says he plans to meet the challenge head on.

The three-time Grand Slam winner was forced to miss this year's Australian Open after contracting the coronavirus and instead headed to Italy last month to compete in a challenger tournament in Biella.

He lost to Ukraine's Illya Marchenko, who was ranked 212th at the time, in the final and then went down against 83rd-ranked Belarussian Egor Gerasimov in his return to the ATP Tour in Montpellier.