It was the last tournament of a king. Beaten in the quarter-finals of the doubles with his compatriot Dan Evans by the American pair Taylor Fritz-Tommy Paul, Sir Andy Murray said his grand farewell to tennis this Thursday at Roland-Garros.
Picture of the day: Andy Murray’s tears as he played the last match of his career 🥹 𝐌𝐄𝐑𝐂𝐈 𝐀𝐍𝐃𝐘.
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In tears on the court after the defeat (6-2, 6-4), the Scot received a long standing ovation from the Parisian public. A few days before the start of the Olympic Games, the player knighted by Prince Charles in 2019 had announced that he would end his career at the end of the Olympic tournament at the Paris Games.
Troubled by injuries in recent years and playing with a metal hip since 2019, the former world number 1 had fallen into the depths of the rankings, beyond the 100th place in the world. But Andy Murray will remain for everyone a tennis legend with three Grand Slam titles, fourteen Master Series, a Davis Cup and two Olympic gold medals.
