"I don’t know if I would announce my retirement" - reveals Andy Murray

| by Zlatko Vodenicharov

Andy Murray announced his retirement from tennis once before but he is not sure whether he would do it again.

Following his defeat in Melbourne to Roberto Bautista Agut in 2019, Murray made his first retirement announcement however four years later he's still going strong. The subject came up once more after Murray's defeat to Norrie in Cincinnati due to his cramping toward the end of the match.

“It’s a difficult one. You know, obviously when I had the injury problems a few years ago and didn’t know whether I was going to be able to play…I maybe always envisaged finishing my career like in the UK or whatever." said Murray after being asked about his future retirement. He added:

"But when I played that match against Bautista like, I said to my team, if that was it and I don’t get to play again, I was more than happy with that being my last match, because, yeah, it was [an] amazing atmosphere, it was a great match, you know, I thought right to the end until I literally, could basically hardly walk at the end and left everything out on the court.

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“That was, you know, for me, it would have been fine if that was how it finished. Yeah, there is part of it I think when you announce that you’re retiring that I would imagine like psychologically it’s quite difficult, as well."

"There is a lot of pressure then, I think, as well, because you want to perform and everyone, because it’s the last couple of tournaments…just the whole situation puts I think a lot of stress on the performance." said Murray after envisioning his future retirement.

Snapping out of it Murray added that he simply doesn't know:

“So I don’t know. I don’t really know, to be honest. Don’t know whether I would announce something or whether I would just stop and that would be it. I don’t know.”

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