{"id":484930,"date":"2024-07-04T17:07:41","date_gmt":"2024-07-04T21:07:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/?post_type=news&#038;p=484930"},"modified":"2024-07-04T17:07:41","modified_gmt":"2024-07-04T21:07:41","slug":"murrays-wimbledon-firewall-begins-with-defeat","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/murrays-wimbledon-firewall-begins-with-defeat\/","title":{"rendered":"Murray\u2019s Wimbledon firewall begins with defeat"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Andy Murray&#8217;s Wimbledon farewell didn\u2019t start in the best way possible as he was eliminated of the men&#8217;s doubles in the 1<sup>st<\/sup> round alongside his older brother Jamie with a 7-6(6), 6-4 defeat to Australians Rinky Hijikata and John Peers.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Andy Murray\u2019s tribute video for his final Wimbledon left me in tears<\/p>\n<p>He fought for the dreams of a nation for so many years<\/p>\n<p>When he got older, he fought with a metal hip<\/p>\n<p>He became a symbol for every underdog in this world<\/p>\n<p>Thank you, Sir Andy Murray\ud83e\udd79<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/3r9MC2YXDl\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/3r9MC2YXDl<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 The Tennis Letter (@TheTennisLetter) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TheTennisLetter\/status\/1808956374665343164?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">July 4, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Without a doubt not at his best due to back pain, Andy Murray had to trust his serve as he battled through the consecutive-sets loss that potentially leaves him with 1 game left to compete at Wimbledon.<\/p>\n<p>The 2-time Wimbledon singles champ withdrew from his 1<sup>st<\/sup>-round singles game 2 days ago, having not recovered in time from a spinal cyst surgery that left him with reduced feeling in his right leg.<\/p>\n<p>However, Andy\u2019s choice to play with his brother at the Grand Slam on grass in the doubles make the fans excited.<\/p>\n<p>Despite the elimination, we will see Murray at least 1 more time as he will play alongside Emma Raducanu after the 2 were given a wild card for the mixed doubles as the competition begins tomorrow.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Andy Murray&#8217;s Wimbledon farewell didn\u2019t start in the best way possible as he was eliminated of the men&#8217;s doubles in the 1st round [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4225,"featured_media":484931,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[17769,18069,17072],"news_category":[16714,14084],"gn_keywords":[18110,18071,6273],"acf":{"announce":"Andy began the tournament with doubles loss.","video":["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\/484930"}],"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=484930"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/484930\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":484936,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/484930\/revisions\/484936"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/484931"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=484930"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=484930"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=484930"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=484930"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}