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Fans all have the same complaint after watching Andy Murray play the final match of his career
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Updated 21:15 1 Aug 2024 GMT+1Published 21:05 1 Aug 2024 GMT+1

Fans all have the same complaint after watching Andy Murray play the final match of his career

It was an incredibly emotional farewell from five-time Olympian Andy Murray.

Jack Kenmare

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Andy Murray has played his final professional tennis match after Team GB were knocked out at the Paris Olympics following a 6-2, 6-4 defeat to Taylor Fritz and Tommy Paul of the United States.

Ahead of the Games in Paris, Murray confirmed it would be his last competition before retirement.

"Arrived in Paris for my last ever tennis tournament," he said on X, formerly Twitter. "Competing for Britain have been by far the most memorable weeks of my career and I'm extremely proud to get do it one final time."

Earlier in the week, Murray and Evans saved two match points to reach the quarter-final following their dramatic win over Belgian pair Joran Vliegen and Sander Gille.

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The victory came after the Team GB duo narrowly escaped elimination in their opening match against Japan's Kei Nishikori and Taro Daniel, when they saved five match points.

But on Thursday evening, American pair Taylor Fritz and Tommy Paul were too strong for Murray and Evans, who battled on admirably against the only seeded duos remaining in the competition.

After the match was over, an emotional Murray embraced partner Dan Evans before walking over to centre court, where he was given a standing ovation by the thousands in attendance.

That being said, some viewers expressed their frustration at the BBC's coverage of Murray's final match.

One fan wrote: "What is wrong with the BBC? Why are we watching Balding, Adlington and Foster talk about Andy Murray? They’re literally sat in front of a swimming pool, show us some swimming? Or literally any sport? Who thinks this is interesting? Mental."

A second said: "So Andy Murray playing tennis is less important than gymnastics or a swimming race that no Brit has a chance of winning. Really BBC?"

A third commented: "FFS! I’m watching the tennis and the BBC decide they’ll just switch it over to the women’s 200m breaststroke final. Not like we have any swimmers from the UK but we do have Andy Murray playing probably his final match! Stop changing channels you clowns!!!"

A fourth said: "What the hell are the BBC up to? This could well be Andy Murray's last EVER match, and they cut to the swimming with potentially 5 mins left."

A fifth added: "This scheduling by the BBC for the Olympics is all over the shop. Andy Murray and Dan Evans in the doubles- let’s stick him on iplayer while we fawn over Simone Biles on BBC1-not good."

Murray, meanwhile, can look back on his career with great pride. The Scot won 739 singles matches out of a possible 1,001, which is a near 75 per cent win record.

He spent 41 weeks as world number one, lifting 11 Grand Slams, two Olympic gold medals and 46 ATP titles.

Featured Image Credit: BBC Sport

Topics: Andy Murray, Tennis

Jack Kenmare
Jack Kenmare

Jack Kenmare is the Senior Journalist for SPORTbible, one of the world’s biggest social publishers. He specialises in long-form feature writing and has an encyclopedic knowledge of Football Manager wonderkids from 2005 to the present day. He has a BA (Hons) in Journalism and News Practice.

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