Andy Murray’s professional tennis career has ended with a Paris Olympics doubles loss in the quarterfinals. The 37-year-old Murray had said the 2024 Summer Games would the final event of his career, and he and partner Dan Evans were beaten by the American duo of Taylor Fritz and Tommy Paul 6-2, 6-4 on Thursday night.
Andy Murray , left, and Daniel Evans of Britain compete against Joran Vliegen and Sander Gille of Belgium during the men’s doubles tennis competition at the Roland Garros stadium, at the 2024 Summer Olympics, Tuesday, July 30, 2024, in Paris, France.
The British pair had managed to stave off a total of seven match points — well, in this case, let’s call them “retirement points” — earlier in the tournament, five in the first round, and then two more in the second round, to extend Murray’s career. Murray is a three-time Grand Slam singles champion and the only tennis player with two Olympic singles golds — from London in 2012 and Rio de Janeiro in 2016. His first Wimbledon championship, in 2013, made Murray the first man from Britain to win that trophy in 77 years.
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