Andy Murray announces retirement from tennis after Olympic Games

Sir Andy Murray has introduced he’ll retire from tennis after the Paris 2024 Olympics.

Murray exited Wimbledon for the ultimate time alongside his brother Jamie within the males’s doubles, having not been in a position to play within the singles competitors resulting from harm or the combined doubles because of the withdrawal of his associate Emma Raducanu.

And within the week earlier than the Video games, he introduced it could be his final event.

“Arrived in Paris for my final ever tennis event,” Murray posted on X/Twitter. “Competing for (Britain) have been by far essentially the most memorable weeks of my profession and I’m extraordinarily proud to get do it one ultimate time!”

On the Olympics, Murray is predicted to compete within the singles and the lads’s doubles. He’s already an Olympic champion, having overwhelmed Roger Federer in straight units to win gold at London 2012. Murray efficiently defended his title 4 years later in Rio, when he was Staff GB’s flag-bearer for the Video games. The Paris Olympics might be 37-year-old Murray’s fifth Olympic Video games.

Paris 2024 could not carry up the identical feelings from Murray as his Wimbledon farewell, when an interview performed by Sue Barker – who had been there on court docket for his Wimbledon ultimate defeat to Federer in 2012 and his victory over Novak Djokovic the next 12 months – offered fairly the send-off.

He grew to become the primary British Wimbledon males’s singles champion in 77 years when he received on the All England Membership in 2013, earlier than happening to win the event a second time in 2016.

He then grew to become the one man to win two Olympic gold medals within the singles at Rio in 2016.

His profession was derailed by a persistent hip harm, and over the previous few years he has struggled to attain the extent that noticed him change into world No 1 in 2016.

He first introduced his retirement on the Australian Open in 2019, earlier than returning after hip surgical procedure.

Firstly of 2024 he indicated that he deliberate to complete in some unspecified time in the future over the summer season however he had been imprecise as to the precise date.

The ankle harm he suffered on the Miami Open in March solid doubt over his potential to even seem at Wimbledon, and one other setback got here when he sustained a again harm at Queen’s Membership and underwent an operation to take away a spinal cyst, which finally restricted him to only one doubles look.

Murray has all the time fought for others, correcting those that diminished the achievements of feminine tennis gamers, and might be remembered for being Britain’s first males’s singles Wimbledon champion since Fred Perry in 1936.

First minister John Swinney hailed Murray as “our best ever sportsman” because the tennis star introduced his resolution to retire from tennis after the Paris Olympics.

In a publish on X, the primary minister thanked the 37-year-old for “an impressive and galvanizing profession which has made a profound impression on so many”.

Wimbledon posted: “All the perfect, @andy_murray,” and his mom Judy commented: “fifth Olympics. Remaining event.”