Current:Home > MyAlgosensey|Andy Murray Announces He’s Retiring From Tennis After 2024 Olympics -Excel Money Vision
Algosensey|Andy Murray Announces He’s Retiring From Tennis After 2024 Olympics
NovaQuant Quantitative Think Tank Center View
Date:2025-04-10 00:20:21
Andy Murray will soon be Algosenseyserving up his last matches.
The tennis legend confirmed that after he represents Great Britan at the 2024 Olympics this summer in Paris, he will retire from his professional career.
“Arrived in Paris for my last ever tennis tournament @Olympics,” he captioned a July 23 Instagram post, featuring an image from a prior Olympic appearance. “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!”
Throughout his career, the 37-year-old has competed in four Olympic Games—making Paris his fifth appearance—and has won three medals, including a gold singles medal at Rio in 2016 plus a gold singles title and a silver for mixed doubles at the 2012 Games in London.
Andy’s announcement comes just weeks after he was given an emotional sendoff at Wimbledon, where he played alongside his brother Jamie Murray in what ultimately became his last match at the Grand Slam tournament.
Following the brothers’ first-round loss, Andy was immediately honored with a standing ovation and an on-court ceremony commemorating a career that spanned two decades and earned three Grand Slam titles.
In a video message featuring peers and rivals such as Roger Federer, Novak Djokovic and Rafael Nadal, Venus Williams took a moment to applaud Andy’s support for women’s tennis, of which he has always been a staunch and outspoken advocate.
As Rafael put it, “We were proud to play against you,” followed by Roger adding, “And with you.”
In conversation with former British player Sue Barker following his last match, Andy reflected on the injuries that hurried the end of his career.
“It is hard because I would love to keep playing but I can’t,” he admitted. “Physically it is too tough now, all of the injuries, they have added up and they haven’t been insignificant.”
“I want to play forever,” Andy—dad to daughters Sophia, 8, and Edie, 6, as well as son Teddy, 4, and a third daughter with wife Kim Sears—continued. “I love the sport and it’s given me so much. It’s taught me loads of lessons over the years I can use for the rest of my life. I don’t want to stop.”
But for an athlete whose impact was felt on and off the court, Andy’s legacy will last.
As Wimbledon wrote on its Instagram page in a message to Andy, “You made us dream. You made us believe. You made us cry. And you made us proud.”
For the latest breaking news updates, click here to download the E! News AppveryGood! (178)
Related
- Off the Grid: Sally breaks down USA TODAY's daily crossword puzzle, Hi Hi!
- Biden won’t participate in nonpartisan commission’s fall debates but proposes 2 with Trump earlier
- Rory McIlroy files for divorce from his wife of 7 years on the eve of the PGA Championship
- AMC, BlackBerry shares surge along with GameStop. Here's why meme stocks are back.
- Jamie Foxx gets stitches after a glass is thrown at him during dinner in Beverly Hills
- Utilities start work on power line crossing in Mississippi River wildlife refuge
- Baltimore bridge span demolished with controlled explosives to free cargo ship
- New Builders initiative looks to fight polarization by encouraging collaboration and alliances
- Which apps offer encrypted messaging? How to switch and what to know after feds’ warning
- Caitlin Clark builds on 1999 U.S. soccer team's moment in lifting women's sports
Ranking
- Woman dies after Singapore family of 3 gets into accident in Taiwan
- Canadian town bracing for its last stand against out-of-control 13,000-acre wildfire
- Roaring Kitty is back. What to know about the investor who cashed in on GameStop in 2021
- Q&A: Is Pittsburgh Becoming ‘the Plastic City’?
- Current, future North Carolina governor’s challenge of power
- Fatal dog attacks are rising – and are hard to predict. But some common themes emerge.
- Lies, loyalty and a gag order upheld: Tuesday’s Trump hush money trial takeaways
- Tennessee governor OKs bill allowing death penalty for child rape convictions
Recommendation
Justice Department, Louisville reach deal after probe prompted by Breonna Taylor killing
The Cutest Bags Just Dropped at Kate Spade Outlet – Score Wristlets, Crossbodies & Totes Starting at $79
Walmart layoffs: Retailer cuts hundreds of corporate jobs, seeks return to office
Maine governor won’t sign 35 bills adopted on final day
Backstage at New York's Jingle Ball with Jimmy Fallon, 'Queer Eye' and Meghan Trainor
Kelly Clarkson confirms medication helped her lose weight: 'It's not' Ozempic
Trophy Eyes fan injured after stage-diving accident: 'Truly heartbroken'
Sidewalk video ‘Portal’ linking New York, Dublin by livestream temporarily paused after lewd antics