Having began enjoying professionally as a teen in 2005, Murray went on to win three Grand Slam titles – together with the 2012 Wimbledon triumph which ended Britain’s 77-year wait for a house males’s singles champion.
In 2016, Murray was the primary British participant to change into the lads’s world primary, reaching the top of the game after a stellar season which ended up being the most effective of his profession.
However his profession was stalled by a hip damage which started to hamper him in 2017.
After makes an attempt to play by way of the ache, it led to a resurfacing surgical procedure – the place a metallic cap is inserted into the joint – in 2019 which he thought would finish his enjoying days.
Amazingly, Murray resumed his singles profession. He even gained one other ATP title in Antwerp later in 2019 and went on to report extra memorable Grand Slam matches.
Nonetheless, he was by no means the identical participant and unable to forge one other deep run at a serious.
Extra setbacks continued this yr, main him to the conclusion that it was lastly time to name it day.
A celebration of his career adopted at Wimbledon final month and, though he has lengthy recognised there isn’t any “excellent finish” to a tennis profession, he had hoped one other Olympics medal alongside Evans can be as becoming because it could possibly be.
“I gave so much to it bodily which I am paying slightly bit for now,” Murray mentioned.
“If I went again to the start of my profession once I began enjoying in Scotland, no one standing right here, my household included, none of them would have anticipated me to do what I did.
“Even once I was 18 or 19 years previous there have been nonetheless lots of people who doubted my skill, expertise, work ethic, mentality, these issues.
“It has been unbelievable, clearly, as somebody who desires to realize nice issues within the sport.
“I look again and there are issues I want I had carried out otherwise, however it has been a tremendous journey and I’ve realized plenty of classes which can assist me as a father or mother or no matter I do subsequent.”