LONDON — Andy Murray, one of many final decade’s most profitable male tennis gamers, has pulled out of the singles match at what is sort of sure to be his final Wimbledon, his crew confirmed Tuesday.
The Scottish star, 37, who has gained the Wimbledon singles title twice and the united statesOpen as soon as, has been battling to be match to play on the All England Membership for weeks.
He’s recovering from surgical procedure to take away a spinal cyst 10 days in the past, which left him visibly in ache and unable to maneuver his proper leg at Queens Membership in London final month, a conventional warm-up match for Wimbledon.
Though he plans to play in within the males’s doubles alongside his brother, Jamie, it seems Murray is not going to seem once more alone on Centre Courtroom. He had been because of face Czech participant Tomas Machac within the singles at 1:30 p.m. (8:30 a.m. ET) on Tuesday.
“Sadly, regardless of working extremely laborious on his restoration since his operation simply over every week in the past, Andy has taken the very tough resolution to not play the singles this yr,” his crew stated in an announcement reported by Sky Information.
“As you’ll be able to think about, he’s extraordinarily dissatisfied however has confirmed that he shall be taking part in within the doubles with Jamie and appears ahead to competing at Wimbledon for the final time.”
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Wishing him properly in a put up on X, Wimbledon stated it was “sorry to listen to you gained’t be taking part in singles this yr.”
Murray additionally nonetheless hopes to seem on the Paris Olympics, after which he has stated he’ll retire from the game.
The information caps a glittering profession on the ATP singles tour, which positioned Murray at number one on the earth for 41 weeks. He was within the prime 10 male gamers on the earth for nearly 10 years, from July 2008 to October 2017.
For a time, the media included Murray within the so-called “Large 4” group of gamers, together with Roger Federer, Novak Djokovic and Rafael Nadal.
He grew to become the primary male British singles champion since Fred Perry in 1936, turning into probably the most lauded British sports activities stars within the course of.
Murray has a protracted historical past with a number of accidents and declared in 2017 that it was unlikely he would compete in knowledgeable match once more, after he withdrew from the U.S. Open because of a recurring hip harm.