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Paris 2024 – Tennis: Andy Murray’s farewell to tennis
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A few days before the start of the Olympic Games, the Scottish tennis player announced that he would play his “last tournament” in the French capital.
Paris will have experienced the last lap of a legend. At 37 years old, tennis player Andy Murray ended his professional career on Thursday evening, August 1, after his elimination in the quarter-finals of the Olympic doubles tournament on the Suzanne-Lenglen court at Roland-Garros. Partnered with Dan Evans, the Scot was beaten by the Americans Taylor Fritz and Tommy Paul (6-2, 6-4), seeded number 3.
Visibly very moved, the former world number one, holder of two Olympic medals in singles (in 2012 and 2016) had announced, a few days before the start of the Paris 2024 Olympic Games, that he would compete there “last tournament”At the end of the match, as Andy Murray was about to leave the court, his compatriot and partner in this competition, Dan Evans, burst into tears.