
Three-time Grand Slam champion and two-time Olympic gold medallist Andy Murray has announced his retirement from the sports after the 2024 Paris Olympics. Murray, who will play in the Paris Olympics for Great Britain, announced the news through his social media handle on Tuesday (July 23).
“Arrived in Paris for my last ever tennis tournament @Olympics Competing for GB have been by far the most memorable weeks of my career and I’m extremely proud to get do it one final time!,” Murray wrote on his X handle on Tuesday.
It was speculated that Murray will announce his retirement after the 2024 ATP tour, but as things stand, he will retire after the Paris Olympics. He recently bowed out of the Wimbledon having been knocked out of the men’s doubles and pulled out of the men’s singles. However, it was Emma Raducanu’s withdrawal in the mixed doubles that ended his Wimbledon career.
Murray will go down in the history books as one of the greatest British players having ended the nation’s Wimbledon title drought in 2013. He became the first Britisher since Fred Perry in 1936 to win the Wimbledon men’s singles title in 2013, having won the gold medal at the same venue in the 2012 London Olympics. Murray repeated the feat in 2016 when he won the Wimbledon singles title again beating Novak Djokovic in the final while also winning the Rio Olympic gold.
The Wimbledon title in 2016 was also his last Grand Slam singles title asinjuries halted his career thereafter.
Murray has spoken about his long-term retirement on a number of occasions in the past. Asked if he would move into the commentary box, he turned down the opportunity and instead suggested that a career in coaching could await.