Tuesday, July 23, 2024 – Three-time Grand Slam champion Andy Murray has announced he will retire from tennis after the Paris Olympics, bringing an end to his 19-year career.
Murray, 37, withdrew from the Wimbledon singles championship
earlier this month after failing to recover in time from a spinal cyst
procedure.
However, he did manage to bid farewell to the All England
Club with a double match alongside his brother, Jamie, before receiving an
on-court tribute.
Murray has said in the past that he would not play this
season's hard-court swing, meaning his final chance to play would come at
Roland Garros at the Olympics. On Tuesday, he confirmed this will be his final
appearance.
"Arrived in Paris for my
last ever tennis tournament," Murray wrote on X Tuesday morning, July 22.
"Competing for Team GB has been by far the most memorable weeks of my career and I'm extremely proud to get to do it one final time!"
The draw for the tennis tournament will take place on
Thursday when Murray will learn who his first opponent will be. He is scheduled
to play in the men's singles tournament, as well as the doubles competition
alongside Dan Evans.
Murray is a two-time Olympic gold medallist having won
back-to-back titles at London 2012 and Rio 2016.
Murray's triumph at London 2012, where he won in the final
with a straight-sets victory over Roger Federer, was his first major title. He
followed it up by lifting his first Grand Slam title a month later, this time
beating Novak Djokovic.
He went on to win at his next appearance at the All England
club the following year before lifting the title for a second time in 2016.
Since then, Murray has faced injury issues. He briefly
retired in 2019 following two hip surgeries. His last ATP tournament victory
came at Antwerp in October 2019.
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