{"id":485894,"date":"2024-08-01T17:02:17","date_gmt":"2024-08-01T21:02:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/?post_type=news&#038;p=485894"},"modified":"2024-08-01T17:02:17","modified_gmt":"2024-08-01T21:02:17","slug":"murrays-career-finishes-with-an-olympic-doubles-loss","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/murrays-career-finishes-with-an-olympic-doubles-loss\/","title":{"rendered":"Murray\u2019s career finishes with an Olympic doubles loss"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>British tennis superstar Andy Murray&#8217;s legendary career has finished with a 2-0 set defeat in the Olympic men&#8217;s doubles \u00bc finals.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">1001 singles matches<br \/>739 victories<br \/>105 top 10 wins<br \/>46 ATP titles<br \/>41 weeks as World No. 1<br \/>29 wins over the Big 3<br \/>14 Masters 1000 titles<br \/>11 Grand Slam finals<br \/>3 Grand Slam titles<br \/>2 Olympic Gold medals <br \/>1 <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/andy_murray?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">@andy_murray<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Thank you, Sir Andy \ud83d\udc99\ud83d\udc99\ud83d\udc99 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/SQyNgA2hqV\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/SQyNgA2hqV<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Tennis TV (@TennisTV) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TennisTV\/status\/1819095369168343422?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">August 1, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Andy and Dan Evans were defeated 6-2 6-4 by American 3<sup>rd<\/sup>-seeds Taylor Fritz and Tommy Paul.<\/p>\n<p>Murray (37) announced before the Olympics that it would be his final tournament before retiring from tennis.<\/p>\n<p>After a long hug with his teammate at the baseline, Andy was visibly emotional with the noise of the Roland-Garros supporters showing their gratitude to the legendary player.<\/p>\n<p>Dan encouraged Andy to go into the centre of the court for 1 final time as he waved to all sides before leaving the complex.<\/p>\n<p>A 5<sup>th<\/sup> Olympics is the final episode of the career of Murray, who triumphed with 3 Grand Slams and was ATP world number 1.<\/p>\n<p>After a campaign disrupted by problems, including procedure to remove a back cyst just over a month ago, it was testament to the perseverance Murray has always had that he even competed in Paris.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Thank you, Sir Andy Murray \ud83c\uddec\ud83c\udde7<\/p>\n<p>The tennis legend leaves the court for the final time \ud83d\ude22<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Paris2024?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#Paris2024<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/tabhTyfmIT\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/tabhTyfmIT<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Eurosport (@eurosport) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/eurosport\/status\/1819097022512689424?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">August 1, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>British tennis superstar Andy Murray&#8217;s legendary career has finished with a 2-0 set defeat in the Olympic men&#8217;s doubles \u00bc finals. 1001 singles [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4225,"featured_media":485895,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[18356,17769,18069],"news_category":[16714,14084],"gn_keywords":[18357,18110,18071],"acf":{"announce":"Andy\u2019s career ended at the Olympics in Paris.","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\/485894"}],"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=485894"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/485894\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":485896,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/485894\/revisions\/485896"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/485895"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=485894"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=485894"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=485894"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=485894"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}