By Chris Oddo | @TheFanChild | Thursday June 27, 2024
The great Scot is taking a wait-and-see approach to playing Wimbledon next week. Retirement plans are clearer.
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By Chris Oddo | @TheFanChild | Thursday June 27, 2024
While we aren’t sure if Andy Murray will play Wimbledon, we now know that the two-time champion plans to enter Friday’s draw and take a wait-and-see approach over the next few days.
The 37-year-old three-time Grand Slam champion, who had surgery on a spinal cyst on Saturday June 22nd, says he wants to give himself every opportunity play next week at his home Slam.
"I feel that I deserve the opportunity to give it until the very last moment to make that decision," Murray said on Thursday, according to ESPN. "The rate that I'm improving just now, if that was to continue, then an extra 72 to 96 hours makes a huge difference. It's complicated, and it's made more complicated because I want to play at Wimbledon one more time.
"I'm going to wait until the last minute to see if I'm going to be able to and I've earned that right to do that.”
Retirement Around the Corner
Murray had previously announced plans to be done with his career at some point this summer and he reinforced that notion on Thursday, saying that he will likely not go to the US Open this year.
"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 reiterated. "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, which begins on August 26]. 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.”
Murray says if he is able to play the Olympics, he’ll likely call it quits after the Paris Games.
"I can't say for sure that if I wasn't able to play at Wimbledon, and I didn't recover in time to play at the Olympics that I wouldn't consider trying to play another tournament somewhere,” he said. “But if I'm able to play at Wimbledon and if I'm able to play at the Olympics, that's most likely going to be it.”