The veteran tennis player Andy Murray announced his retirement plans and confirmed his participation in the upcoming Wimbledon 2024 on Thursday, June 27. The former no.1 announced that he will not participate in the US Open 2024 and will retire after the Paris Olympics.
Murray, 37, went through a back procedure last week and left it late to confirm his participation in the third Grand Slam of the season starting on July 1. The three-time Grand Slam winner had already announced he would not play professionally beyond the 2024 season.
"I feel that I deserve the opportunity to give it until the very last moment to make that decision," Andy Murray said. "If I was to be playing on Monday, I may know on Sunday there's no chance that I can play. But also if it is progressing. I was on the court yesterday and I'm able to go on the court and move around more today and start to do more sort of tennis movements and stuff, I'm not necessarily going to know how that's going to change over the next 48 to 72 hours.
"All of the discussions and conversations that I've had with my team are that I'm not going to play past this summer," Murray said. "Obviously I've had the conversation with my family, and I have a family holiday booked the week after the Olympics.
"I'm not planning on going over to New York [for the US Open]. But then I also don't want the last time that I played on a tennis court to be what happened at Queen's either. Again, I know that there are more important things in the world than how I finish playing my last tennis match or where I finished playing my last tennis match."
The two-time Gold medalist in men's singles received a surprise wild card entry in Great Britain's squad for the Paris Games before his back surgery. Murray is expected to receive a rapturous farewell at both Wimbledon and Paris Olympics after dominating the tennis world for two decades with the 'big four' of Roger Federer, Rafael Nadal and Novak Djokovic.
