Tennis Great Andy Murray Ending Career After Paris Summer Olympics

Tennis great Andy Murray is hanging up his racket. 

The 37-year-old tennis player who has been playing the sport since he was 3-years-old, announced on Twitter Tuesday morning that the upcoming Paris Summer Olympics would be the end of his competitive tennis career.

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"Arrived in Paris for my last ever tennis tournament. Competing for Team GB has been by far the most memorable weeks of my career and I’m extremely proud to get to do it one final time!" 

Murray has had quite a notable Olympic run, after winning gold medals at both the 2012 and 2016 Summer Games. He is also a 3-time Grand Slam singles Champion - winning the U.S. Open as well as becoming the first British player to win Wimbledon in 77 years in 2013. In 2016, he would win the famed British tennis tournament again before later being knighted by Queen Elizabeth II.

He plans to compete in both singles and doubles competitions. 

Unfortunately, Murray’s latter years were plagued by various injuries, including major hip surgery that initially had Murray retiring after the 2019 Australian Open only to then pull a Tom Brady and return to action. 

The comeback was short lived, however, as this year Murray suffered an ankle injury at the Miami Open and then a back injury during Wimbledon before having surgery.

In a sport that has been dominated by GOATs like Novak Djokovic, Roger Federer, and Rafael Nadal there’s no doubt that Andy Murray can  officially retire after the Paris Olympics knowing that his name is confidently ranked among them.

The Paris Summer Olympics begin this Friday with the tennis competitions taking place at Stade Roland Garros, the home of the French Open. It will be the first Olympic tennis matches on clay courts since Barcelona in 1992.