Andy Murray confirms his game time is up after Paris 2024 Olympics

OVER AND NEARLY OUT: Centre court pay tribute to Andy Murray following his doubles match with Jamie Murray against Rinky Hijikata and John Peers at Wimbledon earlier this month. Picture: Zac Goodwin/PA

ANDY MURRAY confirmed he will definitely retire after the Olympics, saying Paris 2024 will be his “last ever tennis tournament”.

It had been widely expected that the 37-year-old Scot would call time on his career after the Games as he looked to go out at the top.

But nothing had been confirmed by the former British No 1 and, after he was recently robbed of a Wimbledon farewell in the singles after he had surgery on a spinal cyst just a week before the tournament began, there were suggestions he would play on after Paris and maybe call time on his career at the US Open.

But the three-time grand slam champion, who is the only man to have won two Olympic tennis singles gold medals, said on Instagram: “Arrived in Paris for my last ever tennis tournament @Olympics.

FINAL BLOW: Andy Murray receives a medical time out during his match against Jordan Thompson at The Queen's Club in June. Picture: Zac Goodwin/PA

“Competing for (Team GB) have been by far the most memorable weeks of my career and I’m extremely proud to get do it one final time!”

Murray first represented Team GB at the Beijing Games in 2008 but it was his gold medal performance at London 2012 which took his career to the next level.

He won his first grand slam at the US Open a month later and then became the first British Wimbledon champion in 77 years the following year.

The Scot, who led Great Britain to an historic Davis Cup victory in 2015, then won his second Wimbledon crown in 2016 and followed it up by becoming the only man to win two Olympic gold medals in the singles when he won in Rio in 2016.

But a chronic hip injury derailed his career and he needed a metal plate inserting into the joint in 2019.

The final few years of his career were played against a backdrop of no longer being physically capable of achieving the level which saw him become the world No 1 at the end of 2016.

At the start of 2024, Murray said he planned to finish at some point in the summer, but was vague as to the exact date.

He was planning on one last Wimbledon swansong in the singles but was cruelly robbed after suffering a back injury in a warm-up event at Queen’s which required surgery.

It ruled him out of the singles but he was able to play the doubles with his brother Jamie, but lost in the first round in a Centre Court farewell.