” Andy Murray heads into retirement after Olympic doubles loss ”

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Andy Murray’s professional tennis career ended with a loss in the Paris Olympics doubles quarterfinals Thursday night.

The 37-year-old Murray had said the 2024 Summer Games would the final event of his career, and he and partner Dan Evans were beaten by the American duo of Taylor Fritz and Tommy Paul 6-2, 6-4 at Court Suzanne Lenglen. The British pair had managed to stave off a total of seven match points – well, in this case, let’s call them “retirement points” – earlier in the tournament, five in the first round and then two more in the second round, to extend Murray’s career.

But Murray and Evans could not create that sort of magic again against the third-seeded Fritz and Paul. Murray is a three-time Grand Slam singles champion and the only tennis player with two Olympic singles golds – from London in 2012 and Rio de Janeiro in 2016. His first Wimbledon championship, in 2013, made Murray the first man from Britain to win that trophy in 77 years.

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