Three-times Grand Slam champion Andy Murray said he may play the men’s doubles alongside brother Jamie at next month’s Wimbledon Championships.
The 37-year-old Scot has won two Wimbledon singles titles, while his brother is a two-times Wimbledon mixed doubles champion.
The Murray brothers also played together at the 2016 Rio Olympics, and were a prolific partnership when Britain won the Davis Cup in 2015.
“I may play doubles at Wimbledon, yeah. I’m not 100% sure yet,” Murray told reporters after his French Open exit.
“My brother doesn’t have a partner for Wimbledon currently. We have spoken a little bit about it. So may do that, but not 100% sure yet.
“(We will decide) ahead of time. I mean obviously Jamie could also get a good partner, as well. We’ll see what happens, but yeah, we’ll probably decide in the next few days.”
If this year’s edition does turn out to be Andy Murray’s last French Open, it ended after two matches: one loss in singles and, on Friday, one loss in doubles.
Murray and Dan Evans were defeated by Thiago Seyboth Wild and Sebastian Baez 7-6 (6), 7-6 (3) in the first round of doubles.
Murray, a three-time Grand Slam singles champion, was eliminated in the first round of singles by Stan Wawrinka in straight sets on Sunday night.
The 37-year-old Murray has said he thinks he probably will retire sometime this year. He has an artificial hip and has dealt with back issues this season.
He reiterated Friday that he wants to compete at the Paris Olympics, which will hold tennis matches at Roland Garros starting on July 27. That was why he and Evans got a wild-card invitation to compete in doubles at the French Open.
Murray won singles gold medals at the 2012 Olympics in London and the 2016 Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, the only player to win two consecutive tennis titles at the Summer Games.
“Me and Dan obviously were hoping to have a good run here. Yeah, it wasn’t to be. So don’t know if we’ll get the opportunity (to play doubles at the Olympics). There’s guys obviously ahead of us in the rankings, and we’ve got good doubles players in the U.K.,” Murray said. “Let’s see what happens.”
Comments
0 comment