Andy Murray's long goodbye concludes as hell of ride ends with deserved cheers and tears
dailyrecord.co.ukTHAT’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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