Andy Murray set to become first British athlete to make four singles tennis appearances at Olympics

British icon, Andy Murray, will hang up his shoes after 2024 Paris Olympics.

Former World No. #1 and three-time Grand Slam champion Andy Murray announced on social media on Tuesday that he will be calling time on his career after Paris Olympics 2024. It will also be the ATP Tour veteran’s fourth singles draw at the Olympic Games – the most by any British male or female player. 

Murray will be competing in the singles and doubles events in Paris. He first won the singles gold in the 2012 London Games, and a repeat performance for a second consecutive singles gold followed in 2016 at the Rio Games. Murray turned up in Tokyo in 2020 but did not play the singles event and finished fifth in doubles. The 2024 Paris Olympics will be the fifth of his career.

The first of his two Olympic singles gold medals was against Roger Federer in 2012. The 2016 Rio Olympics saw Murray repeat the feat against Argentine Juan Martín del Potro. Murray missed out on a second gold in 2012 in mixed doubles with Laura Robson, having to settle for a second-place finish on the podium.

The veteran Scot has the honour of becoming the first male tennis player to win two Olympic singles gold medals. Murray also spent 41 weeks as ATP World No. #1.

Andy Murray is to play singles as part of the British squad along with Jack Draper, Cameron Norrie and Daniel Evans. Murray and Evans will pair up for doubles, with Neal Skupski and Joe Salisbury being the other doubles team. 

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He became the first homegrown champion to win Wimbledon since Fred Perry in 1936. The 77-year wait for a British winner at SW19 came to an end in 2013 when Murray lifted the Wimbledon trophy. He would go on to win a second Wimbledon title after a two-year gap in 2016. Murray won his first Grand Slam in 2012 at Flushing Meadows.

The Paris Olympics will be his first singles since Queen’s, having missed Wimbledon due to surgery on a spinal cyst. He bid goodbye to the grass courts of London after bowing out in the doubles draw played alongside his brother, Jamie Murray.

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