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Two-time Wimbledon champion’s mother tells ‘The National’ fans should appreciate him while he is still around

As a 36-year-old Andy Murray gets ready to compete in singles at Wimbledon for a 15th time in his storied career, his mother Judy has made one plea: Enough with all the retirement talk and just let him play.

The two-time Wimbledon winner recently captured back-to-back Challenger titles on grass in the build-up to these Championships and has returned to the world’s top-40 for the first time since 2018.

A former world No1 and three-time Grand Slam champion, Murray’s career was rocked by a hip injury in 2017, which required multiple surgeries, including a hip resurfacing procedure that could have ended his spell as a professional tennis player.

The Scot has somehow found a way to continue competing with a metal hip and arrives at SW19 ranked 39 in the world and feeling confident on the grass.

He recently was asked by Sky Sports if this was going to be his final Wimbledon and Murray said he hoped it wasn’t, and feels he can remain competitive for another couple of years.

Speaking to The National at the WTA’s 50th anniversary celebration event in London on Friday, Judy Murray urged people to stop focusing on her son’s retirement date and instead appreciate him while he is still around.

“I think the fact that he’s still competing, still playing – I mean when he got the hip injury in 2017 he was No1 in the world, he was playing the best tennis of his life and just so unlucky because it took a long time for him to find the right way to address that injury and then to recover from it, rehab from it, took a long, long time,” said Judy.

Andy Murray during a practice session ahead of the 2023 Wimbledon Championships. Reuters
Andy Murray during a practice session ahead of the 2023 Wimbledon Championships. Reuters
“And I think the fact that he’s still playing shows his passion for the game, his love of competition and yeah… let’s just let him play for as long as he wants to play and stop talking about when he’s going to retire. Just leave him to do what he does best.”

This year marks the 10-year anniversary of Andy Murray’s first Wimbledon triumph – a historic success that saw him end Britain’s 77-year wait for a home men’s singles champion at the All England Club.

Murray had suffered a heartbreaking defeat to Roger Federer in the Wimbledon final 12 months earlier, before avenging that defeat to the Swiss a few weeks later in the London 2012 Olympics final, which was held at the same venue. He clinched his maiden Grand Slam title at the US Open that summer before securing the Wimbledon crown the following year.

Reflecting on her son’s momentous victory, Judy said: “I think the biggest thing for me, from Andy winning in 2013, the overriding emotion for me was relief.

I think when you’re a British player and it’s your home Slam and the bulk of the country are watching it and think that the whole tennis world revolves around Wimbledon. And I think because Andy had lost in the final the year before to Federer and how devastated he was with that and how long it took to get him out of that slump.

“And thankfully the Olympics came along that year very quickly, same venue, different feel because it was a team competition, different type of crowd, and he managed to win that, I think that was a big thing.

“But I think having witnessed the devastation for him of losing in the final, I think when he got to the final in 2013, for me it was like, ‘Oh please don’t let it happen again’. Because you never know when you’re going to get that chance to be in a final. Very few male players over the last 20 years have been in a final. It’s been dominated by a small number of players.”