Andy Murray Confirms Paris Olympics Last Event Before Retiring

FILE PHOTO: 2016 Rio Olympics - Tennis - Victory Ceremony - Men's Singles Victory Ceremony - Olympic Tennis Centre - Rio de Janeiro, Brazil - 14/08/2016. Gold medalist Andy Murray (GBR) of Britain reacts after receiving his medal.  REUTERS/Toby Melville.
FILE PHOTO: 2016 Rio Olympics - Tennis - Victory Ceremony - Men's Singles Victory Ceremony - Olympic Tennis Centre - Rio de Janeiro, Brazil - 14/08/2016. Gold medalist Andy Murray (GBR) of Britain reacts after receiving his medal. REUTERS/Toby Melville.
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Andy Murray Confirms Paris Olympics Last Event Before Retiring

FILE PHOTO: 2016 Rio Olympics - Tennis - Victory Ceremony - Men's Singles Victory Ceremony - Olympic Tennis Centre - Rio de Janeiro, Brazil - 14/08/2016. Gold medalist Andy Murray (GBR) of Britain reacts after receiving his medal.  REUTERS/Toby Melville.
FILE PHOTO: 2016 Rio Olympics - Tennis - Victory Ceremony - Men's Singles Victory Ceremony - Olympic Tennis Centre - Rio de Janeiro, Brazil - 14/08/2016. Gold medalist Andy Murray (GBR) of Britain reacts after receiving his medal. REUTERS/Toby Melville.

Two-time Olympic men’s singles champion Andy Murray confirmed Tuesday he will end his career next week at the Paris Games.
“Arrived in Paris for my last ever tennis tournament,” the 37-year-old Murray posted on the X social media platform.
Tennis at the Paris Olympics starts Saturday on the clay courts at Roland Garros.
Murray won his first gold medal on grass at Wimbledon at the 2012 London Olympics — beating Roger Federer in three straight seats — and retained his title in Rio de Janeiro in 2016, beating Juan Martin del Potro on hard courts.
"Competing for (Britain) have been by far the most memorable weeks of my career and I’m extremely proud to get do it one final time!” The Associated Press quoted Murray as saying on Tuesday.
Murray had hip replacement surgery in 2019 and several subsequent injuries. He withdrew from singles at Wimbledon this month after a procedure to remove a cyst from his spine.



Nadal Falls to Nuno Borges in Nordea Open Final

Tennis - Nordea Open - Bastad, Sweden - July 21, 2024 Portugal's Nuno Borges poses with the trophy after winning his men's singles final alongside Spain's Rafael Nadal Bjorn Larsson Rosvall/TT News Agency via REUTERS
Tennis - Nordea Open - Bastad, Sweden - July 21, 2024 Portugal's Nuno Borges poses with the trophy after winning his men's singles final alongside Spain's Rafael Nadal Bjorn Larsson Rosvall/TT News Agency via REUTERS
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Nadal Falls to Nuno Borges in Nordea Open Final

Tennis - Nordea Open - Bastad, Sweden - July 21, 2024 Portugal's Nuno Borges poses with the trophy after winning his men's singles final alongside Spain's Rafael Nadal Bjorn Larsson Rosvall/TT News Agency via REUTERS
Tennis - Nordea Open - Bastad, Sweden - July 21, 2024 Portugal's Nuno Borges poses with the trophy after winning his men's singles final alongside Spain's Rafael Nadal Bjorn Larsson Rosvall/TT News Agency via REUTERS

Rafael Nadal's winning run at the clay-court Nordea Open ended Sunday when the Spaniard was beaten by Nuno Borges 6-3, 6-2 in the final on Sunday.
The seventh-seeded Portuguese player broke the Nadal serve five times on his way to a first ATP tour victory. It was Nadal's first final since the 2022 French Open.
“It’s crazy, in tennis it doesn’t happen when you expect it sometimes," said Borges. “I know we all wanted Rafa to win, a part of me wished that too, but something even bigger inside of me really pushed through today.”
Nadal was playing at the tournament in Sweden for the first time since he won the title as a 19-year-old in 2005 as he prepares for the Olympic tournament on clay at Roland Garros in Paris.
The 38-year-old Nadal skipped Wimbledon as he didn’t want to switch surface to grass and then back to clay and risk injury. He has been dealing with hip and abdominal injuries over the past 1 1/2 years.