Murray underwent the Birmingham Hip Resurfacing procedure in a bid to alleviate the pain he was feeling

Andy Murray’s chances of returning to competitive tennis should be “in the high 90 per cent” and he could even play at Wimbledon this year, according to the surgeon who invented the hip operation that the former world No 1 underwent last week.

Rather than the more common total hip replacement, Murray now has a metal Birmingham Hip Resurfacing (BHR) device on his right side, designed to allow greater activity after surgery.

Hip resurfacing was pioneered in the 1990s by Professor Derek McMinn, a Birmingham-based expert who has trained more than 500 surgeons around the world in his technique and seen several professional sportspeople return to action after the procedure.

Murray, 31, a three times grand-slam winner, had surgery on the same joint in