The two-time Wimbledon champion will bow out after the Paris Games after his SW19 farewell was ruined by injury
Andy Murray has confirmed he will retire from tennis after the 2024 Paris Olympics.
The three-time grand slam tournament champion was denied a final Wimbledon singles match this year, pulling out of a first round clash with Tomas Machac due to a slow recovery from an operation removing a spinal cyst – but he did play one final doubles tie alongside brother Jamie.
Murray, who has two men’s singles Olympic golds for Team GB from 2012 and 2016, will now bow out after Paris. His first matches will take place the weekend of Saturday 27 and Sunday 28 July, with the draw taking place on Thursday.
Writing on X, formerly Twitter, Murray said: “Arrived in Paris for my last ever tennis tournament at the Olympics.
“Competing for Great Britain have been by far the most memorable weeks of my career and I’m extremely proud to get do it one final time!”
Having lost his first Olympics match in straight sets to Lu Yen-Hsun at Beijing 2008, Murray then won back-to-back singles titles.
He earned his first at London 2012, beating Roger Federer in a rematch of the Wimbledon final he had lost weeks prior at the same venue, before toppling Juan Martin del Potro at Rio 2016.
The Scot has struggled with injuries throughout the latter part of his career, having major hip surgery in January 2019.
After being knocked out of the Wimbledon doubles, Murray said: “It is hard because I want to keep playing, but I can’t.
“Physically it’s too tough now. I want to play forever. I love the sport.”
Murray has won 46 ATP Tour singles titles and three grand slams – Wimbledon in 2013 and 2016 and the 2012 US Open.
Competing as a contemporary to Federer, Novak Djokovic and Rafael Nadal, who have 66 grand slams between them, there is a sense Murray could have won more in a different era. But he was a worthy adversary to tennis’s Big Three, ranked as ATP world No 1 for 41 weeks and reaching 11 major singles finals.
Injuries meant his performances fell away later in his career, but he still regularly put on incredible feats of endurance and mental strength to continue playing regularly into 2024.
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