Scotland’s Andy Murray, who underwent surgery last week for a spinal cyst, will not play the singles at Wimbledon, his entourage said in a statement on Tuesday.
‘Unfortunately, despite working incredibly hard to recover from his surgery, Andy has made the difficult decision not to play singles this year,’ a statement said. He is extremely disappointed but confirms that he will play doubles with his brother Jamie in what will be his final Wimbledon.’
The 37-year-old Scot, a former world No. 1 and one of only two players with Stan Wawrinka to have won three Grand Slam titles during the period of domination of the Big3 (Federer-Nadal-Djokovic) to the point of being associated with them in a Big4, thought that his warrior mentality would once again allow him to take the upper hand over his body.
He was hoping to embark on a final singles campaign in the tournament he has won twice (2013, 2016) and on the courts where he won the Olympic gold medal in 2012.
But he has not recovered enough to play singles, although he was due to start his tournament on Tuesday evening on Centre Court against the Czech Tomas Machac (38th in the world).
Having already been playing with a metal hip since 2019, he is expected to retire after the Paris Olympics this summer.
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