THAT’S that then. Game, set, match. Career.The sun finally went down on Andy Murray’s miraculous professional tennis journey in the baking late evening heat of Paris last night.
Nineteen years, over a thousand tour matches, three Slams - two of them Wimbledon, two Olympic gold medals, 41 weeks as world number one, an OBE, a gold post box, a mountain of memories, a lifetime of cheers and enough tears to flood the nearby Seine.
It’s been one helluva ride.Murray struck his last shot as a professional tennis player at Roland Garros - a backhand that went long. - as big hitting American Tommy Paul was good to his pre-match word that he was aiming to retire the Scottish legend.
Together with US teammate Tayler Fritz - seeded third - they ruthlessly disposed of Murray and Evans, ensuring there was no more if the Braveheart fightbacks that were becoming a habit for the Brits in this Suzanne-Lenglen Court.The Brits did produce one last remarkably gutsy resistance though to deny the Americans a second set stroll and ensure Murray’s fans - the few here at least - got one last chance to echo his roar.But in the end there will be no medal.
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