Andy Murray has completed a remarkable return to tennis after winning the doubles at Queen’s alongside Feliciano Lopez. The Scot won silverware just five months after he tearfully announced the Australian Open could be his last tournament.

Murray was close to retiring five months ago due to a hip injury which left him struggling to walk, let alone play tennis.

The Scot, who played with a new metal hip, has strolled off with silverware at his first attempt since returning to the sport.

The former world number one who played with Lopez, who just won the singles title less than an hour earlier beat Britain’s Joe Salisbury and Rajeev Ram of the United States 7-6 (6), 5-7, 10-5 after a third-set match tie-break.

“I felt really relaxed at the beginning of the week and as it’s gone on I was getting more and more nervous as my competitive instincts were kicking in with each match.

“But my hip felt great and there’s no pain and obviously I will try to keep progressing from here but I am just happy to be back out on the grass,” Murray told reporters after the grueling encounter.

Murray’s appearance at the Queen’s Club Championships was supposed to be a tentative comeback with a view to gradually building up to a return to singles.

The fledgling partnership were 5-1 down in a first-set tie-break but fought back to level and took it when Ram pushed a forehand wide.

The second set went the way of Salisbury and Ram after Murray dropped a serve and like so many matches during Murray’s career, it went to the wire.

Lopez, who seemed to be running out of steam somehow conjured up a series of stunning winners in the match tie-break to secure his own personal double and an unlikely but welcome victory for Murray.