Andy Murray has announced that he will retire from tennis following the Olympics in Paris.
The three-time Grand Slam winner, 37, had been widely expected to end his illustrious 20-year playing career after the upcoming Games, with that decision now publicly confirmed by Murray following his arrival in France.
“Arrived in Paris for my last ever tennis tournament @Olympics,” he wrote on social media platform X on Tuesday morning.
“Competing for GB have been by far the most memorable weeks of my career and I’m extremely proud to get to do it one final time!”
Arrived in Paris for my last ever tennis tournament @Olympics
— Andy Murray (@andy_murray) July 23, 2024
Competing for 🇬🇧 have been by far the most memorable weeks of my career and I’m extremely proud to get do it one final time! pic.twitter.com/keqnpvSEE1
Murray is set to play in the men’s singles competition in Paris as well as in the men’s doubles alongside fellow Briton Dan Evans.
The tennis competition runs from July 27 until August 4 on the red clay at Roland Garros, home of the French Open.
Murray claimed gold in the singles at both London 2012 and in Rio de Janeiro in 2016, having also won silver on home soil in the mixed doubles along with Laura Robson.
Murray’s straight-sets triumph over Roger Federer on grass in the men’s final in London came just weeks after he had lost to the Swiss in the final at Wimbledon, while he and Robson lost out to Victoria Azarenka and Max Mirnyi in the gold medal match.
Murray successfully defended his Olympic singles title on the hardcourt in Brazil four years later, seeing off the challenge of Argentina’s Juan Martin del Potro in an epic final, five weeks after his second Wimbledon crown to become the first and only tennis player in history to win consecutive golds in Olympic singles.
Murray and brother Jamie did not medal in the men’s doubles in either London or Rio, while his mixed doubles campaign with Heather Watson ended at the quarter-final stage in 2016.
A thigh strain cost Murray any chance of a bid for a third Olympic singles gold at the delayed Tokyo Games three years ago, but he reached the men’s doubles quarter-finals alongside Joe Salisbury. He did not compete in the mixed doubles in Tokyo.
Murray most recently bid an emotional farewell to Wimbledon, where he was prevented from playing in the singles one final time due to surgery to remove a spinal cyst that forced his early withdrawal from a final appearance at Queen’s Club just over a week before his SW19 swansong.
However, he was able to compete in the men’s doubles alongside Jamie, with their first-round defeat followed by a memorable tribute ceremony in which tennis legends past and present honoured the tearful Murray along with an adoring crowd on Centre Court.
He was due to close his Wimbledon career alongside Emma Raducanu in the mixed doubles, though a wrist issue forced the latter to withdraw from their high-profile partnership on the day of their first match.
