{"id":17962,"date":"2024-07-23T16:28:14","date_gmt":"2024-07-23T10:58:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/?p=458986"},"modified":"2024-07-23T16:28:14","modified_gmt":"2024-07-23T10:58:14","slug":"andy-murray-to-retire-after-paris-olympics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/tennis\/andy-murray-to-retire-after-paris-olympics\/","title":{"rendered":"Andy Murray to retire after Paris Olympics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Andy Murray has revealed that he will retire from professional tennis following the 2024 Paris Olympics. The 37-year-old plans to compete in both singles and doubles at his fifth Games, marking the end of an illustrious career.<\/p>\n<p>Murray shared his sentiment on social media, saying, \u201cArrived in Paris for my last ever tennis tournament. Competing for Team GB has been by far the most memorable weeks of my career and I\u2019m extremely proud to get to do it one final time!\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Arrived in Paris for my last ever tennis tournament <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Olympics?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@Olympics<\/a><br \/>Competing for \ud83c\uddec\ud83c\udde7 have been by far the most memorable weeks of my career and I\u2019m extremely proud to get do it one final time! <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/keqnpvSEE1\">pic.twitter.com\/keqnpvSEE1<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Andy Murray (@andy_murray) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/andy_murray\/status\/1815643228793700703?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 23, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Murray\u2019s Olympic journey began in Beijing in 2008, where he lost in the first round. He redeemed himself by winning gold at London 2012, defeating Roger Federer, and then defended his title at Rio 2016 by beating Juan Martin del Potro.<\/p>\n<p>After undergoing hip surgery in 2019, Murray, a two-time Wimbledon champion, struggled with injuries but continued to compete. He recently played at Wimbledon one last time, where he and his brother Jamie were eliminated in the doubles\u2019 first round.<\/p>\n<p>Murray expressed his frustration with his physical limitations, stating, \u201cIt is hard because I want to keep playing, but I can\u2019t. Physically it\u2019s too tough now. I want to play forever. I love the sport.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Andy Murray has revealed that he will retire from professional tennis following the 2024 Paris Olympics. The 37-year-old plans to\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":250,"featured_media":38704,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[326],"class_list":["post-17962","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-tennis","tag-andy-murray"],"reading_time":"1 min read","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17962","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/250"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17962"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17962\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/38704"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17962"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17962"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17962"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}