Andy Murray, winner of three Grand Slams, set a date for his possible retirement after losing this Wednesday at the ATP 500 in Dubai. The Scot, former world number one, fell in an hour and a half against the Frenchman Ugo Humbert (6-2 and 6-4), making it his seventh fall of the year (he also has three victories).
“I probably won’t play again after the -European- summer,” he remarked at the post-setback press conference. The date is not random: it will be tested at Roland Garros, Wimbledon and he aspires to be present in Paris 2024. “I hope to have the opportunity to play other Games,” said the Briton, confirming that the event is special for him, given that he won the gold medal in singles in London and Rio de Janeiro, being the only male tennis player in history to win two Olympic Games in a row.
After a hip operation in 2019 to implant a prosthesis, the current No. 61 on the ATP list tried to recover his pre-injury level, but he never managed to get into the top 30 in the world. His best moment was the conquest of the Antwerp tournament at the end of that year, the last of the trophies he has lifted, in a dream resume, thanks to which he managed to battle the Big Three, made up of Novak Djokovic, Rafael Nadal and Roger Federer.
In his record, Andy has two titles at Wimbledon (2013 and 2016), a US Open (2012), the two gold medals already mentioned, 14 Masters 1,000, and 47 crowns in total, added to the fact that he has occupied the first rank of the ranking for 41 weeks in his career.
However, today he seems to suffer more than he enjoys, although his competitive spirit leads him to keep trying. A month ago, he even confronted a journalist (Kheredine Idessane, from the BBC), who invited him to retire because he was “staining his legacy.”
“Certainly, safeguarding your own mental health must come into play along with preserving your reputation. If he never hits another ball again, his status as a great player and legend of British sport is already assured,” he criticized.
“Tanning my legacy? Do me a favor. I’m in a terrible place right now, I admit it. Most people would quit and give up in my situation right now. But I’m not most people and my mind works differently. I will not give up. “I will continue fighting and working to offer the performance that I know I am capable of,” she confronted him through his account on the social network X (formerly Twitter).
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