{"id":477294,"date":"2024-01-31T14:01:01","date_gmt":"2024-01-31T18:01:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/?post_type=news&#038;p=477294"},"modified":"2024-01-31T10:17:21","modified_gmt":"2024-01-31T14:17:21","slug":"murray-claims-that-he-will-continue-to-play-tennis","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/murray-claims-that-he-will-continue-to-play-tennis\/","title":{"rendered":"Murray claims that he will continue to play tennis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>3-times Grand Slam champ Andy Murray hit back at suggestions he could &#8220;damage his legacy&#8221; if he continues to play tennis after the British was beaten for a 3<sup>rd<\/sup> consecutive time in the 1<sup>st<\/sup> round to begin the campaign.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">&quot;I will keep fighting!&quot; \ud83d\udcaa<\/p>\n<p>Andy Murray claps back at the suggestion that his recent run of results is &quot;tarnishing&quot; his legacy. \ud83d\udca2 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/5QfLJmu1BV\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/5QfLJmu1BV<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Eurosport (@eurosport) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/eurosport\/status\/1752627644766564420?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">January 31, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Andy returned to the court after having a hip-resurfacing procedure in 2019 but has struggled to reach the latter stages in the most competitive tournaments. Murray has failed to surpass the 3<sup>rd<\/sup> round of a Grand Slam since reaching the Wimbledon \u00bc finals in 2017.<\/p>\n<p>After being eliminated in the 1<sup>st<\/sup> round at Brisbane and Melbourne Park, Andy lost against Benoit Paire in Montpellier yesterday, and the media asked him if he thinks about retirement to avoid damaging his legacy.<\/p>\n<p>Murray answered that he disagrees that continuing to play tennis can affect his legacy and added that he won\u2019t quit and will try to get better and show what he can do on the court.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>3-times Grand Slam champ Andy Murray hit back at suggestions he could &#8220;damage his legacy&#8221; if he continues to play tennis after the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4225,"featured_media":477295,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[17769,18069],"news_category":[16714],"gn_keywords":[18110,18071],"acf":{"announce":"Andy fired back at the call to retire from the sport.","video":[]},"rank_math_focus_keyword":"","rank_math_description":"","rank_math_title":"","rank_math_robots":"","rank_math_canonical_url":"","rank_math_facebook_title":"","rank_math_facebook_description":"","rank_math_facebook_image":"","rank_math_twitter_title":"","rank_math_twitter_description":"","rank_math_twitter_image":"","rank_math_snippet_shortcode":"","rank_math_primary_category":"","rankmath_seo":{"focus_keyword":"","description":"","title":"","canonical_url":"","robots":"","facebook":{"title":"","description":"","image":""},"twitter":{"title":"","description":"","image":""}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/477294"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4225"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=477294"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/477294\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":477296,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/477294\/revisions\/477296"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/477295"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=477294"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=477294"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=477294"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=477294"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}