Andy Murray has announced his retirement from tennis.
However, that would take effect after the Paris 2024 Olympics.
The British tennis player previously exited Wimbledon for the final time alongside his brother Jamie in the men’s doubles having not been able to play in the singles competition. And in the week before the Games, he announced it would be his last tournament.
“Arrived in Paris for my last ever tennis tournament,” Murray said on X, formerly known as Twitter.
“Competing for (Britain) have been by far the most memorable weeks of my career and I’m extremely proud to get do it one final time!”
Murray might have missed a final doubles match at Wimbledon with Emma Raducanu due to her wrist injury, denying the two-time singles champion a second farewell.
At the Olympics, Murray is expected to compete in the singles and men’s doubles. He is already an Olympic champion, having beaten Roger Federer in straight sets to win gold in London 2012. Murray defended his title four years later in Rio, where he was Team GB’s flag-bearer. The Paris Olympics will be 37-year-old Murray’s fifth and final Games.
Paris 2024 might not evoke the same emotions as his Wimbledon farewell. An interview conducted by Sue Barker, who had been there on court for his Wimbledon final defeat to Federer in 2012 and win over Novak Djokovic the following year, provided quite the send-off.
This isn’t the first time Murray has announced his retirement; he did so at the Australian Open in 2019, but this one feels final.
He will be mostly remembered for ending Britain’s 77-year wait for a men’s singles Wimbledon champion since Fred Perry.
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