Andy Murray confirms he will retire from tennis after Paris Olympics 2024
Andy Murray has announced he will retire from tennis after the Paris Olympics.
The tennis star confirmed Paris 2024 will be his "last ever tennis tournament".
Murray, 37, posted on social media on Tuesday: "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 to do it one final time!"
Murray recently missed out on a Wimbledon farewell in the singles after he had surgery on a spinal cyst just a week before the tournament began.
The three-time grand slam champion is the only man to have won two Olympic tennis singles gold medals.
Murray made his debut at Wimbledon back in 2005, reaching the third round as an 18-year-old. He has since played 74 singles matches, winning 61 of them.
He first represented Team GB at the Beijing Games in 2008, but his first gold medal came at London 2012.
He won his first grand slam at the US Open a month later.
In 2013, he became the first British Wimbledon champion in 77 years after an emotional victory over Novak Djokovic. He lifted the trophy again in 2016.
He became the only man to win two Olympic gold medals in the singles when he topped the podium in Rio in 2016.
But a chronic hip injury derailed his career and he needed a metal plate inserting into the joint in 2019.
At the start of 2024, amid questions about how long he would continue playing, Murray said he planned to finish sometime in the summer.
He was forced to drop out of his last Wimbledon singles this year, after a back injury in a warm-up event at Queen’s which required surgery.
But he was able to play the doubles with his brother Jamie, but lost in the first found.
He has recovered to be fit for the singles in Paris and travelled with the rest of the squad to the French capital on Monday.
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