It seemed that this match at the 2024 Paris Olympics would be Andy Murray's last career tennis match, but it just beautifully represented his career, as he refused to give up.
The last time the British legend played before this match, we saw a player who could no longer play tennis the way he wanted to anymore. Still, he traveled to Paris for the Olympic Games to play one final time and end his career.
To help him with that, Murray enlisted the help of Daniel Evans, who would be his partner in that doubles experience, with their first-round opponents in the French capital being Japanese duo Taro Daniel and Kei Nishikori.
Murray can't play tennis at the highest level anymore, while Evans didn't have the sharpest day at the office, or so it looked like early on. He made some bad mistakes in crucial moments, and their opponents generally played better early on.
The British duo won their opening service game, but not long after that, they ran into trouble. Daniel and Nishikori demonstrated better hitting early on, finding a few good shots to establish a clear advantage.
That wasn't the case for Evans and Murray, who mostly missed their shots, difficult or easy. After finally breaking their opponent's serve, the Japanese players were able to exert even more pressure in the coming games and cruised to a 6-2 win in the first set.
The second set didn't open that better for the Brits because they lost their serve in the first game of the second set. It was 2-0 for their opponents relatively quickly, but they found a bit of fire battling back to make it 2-2.
Unfortunately, it didn't last long as they were broken immediately in the next game, which clearly demonstrated how bad of a day they had. Still, they didn't give up and battled back from being a break down once more.
This time around, they were able to keep their serve and get to a tie-break where they outplayed the Japanese team 7-5 to force a match tie-break, which decides the match in the third set at the Olympic Games.
They completely lost control at one point just to produce a stunning comeback that nobody saw coming. Murray and Evans were down 3-8 in the match tie-break and also 4-9.
Then, they saved 5 match points as if it were nothing to make it 9-9, and then they won two more points to win the match tie-break 11-9. They won seven points in a row to close out the match, winning 2-6, 7-6(5), 11-9.
That was an incredible comeback, especially in doubles, where one good serve could end it. The Japanese team didn't find it, and Murray was able to extend his career even further. He will get to play at least one more match in his tennis career.
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