Andy Murray’s skilled tennis profession ended with a Paris Olympics doubles loss within the quarter-finals.
The 37-year-old Murray had mentioned the 2024 Summer time Video games would the ultimate occasion of his profession, and he and accomplice Dan Evans had been crushed by the American duo of Taylor Fritz and Tommy Paul 6-2, 6-4 at Courtroom Suzanne Lenglen.
The British pair had managed to stave off a complete of seven match factors — nicely, on this case, let’s name them “retirement factors” — earlier within the event, 5 within the first spherical, after which two extra within the second spherical, to increase Murray’s profession.
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Murray says goodbye for the ultimate time. 9
However Murray and Evans couldn’t create that kind of magic once more towards the third-seeded Fritz and Paul.
Murray is a three-time grand slam singles champion and the one tennis participant with two Olympic singles golds — from London in 2012 and Rio de Janeiro in 2016.
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His first Wimbledon championship, in 2013, made Murray the primary man from Britain to win that trophy in 77 years.
Doubles accomplice Dan Evans caught up within the emotion. 9
Murray and Evans embrace after dropping to the American pair. 9
He additionally received the title on the All England Membership in 2016; his first main championship got here on the US Open in 2012.
Murray has handled a collection of accidents within the latter levels of his profession, together with needing two hip operations, one for a metallic implant in 2019.
Most just lately, he had surgical procedure to take away a cyst from his backbone final month.
That pressured him to skip the singles occasions at Wimbledon and the Olympics.
