New Balls Please

[Canary42]

Time for Andy to hang up his racket ?

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/tennis/67857027

 

He's done us proud, but surely only encouraging further injuries now, which he will regret in old age.

[andy-hughes]

When you've devoted your life to reaching the pinnacle of your sport, it must be very hard to accept that you are coming to the end of it.

That's what motivates musicians and entertainers to carry on even when they really shouldn't. 

It's what you are, it defines you, to yourself, and the wider world, and adapting to the inevitable change is reluctant.

That's where Mr Murray is - knowing the end is coming, but please, not just yet.

[ClareTG0ld]

I wish, in a way, he'd retired at the end of that AO - 2019 I think it was - when they played the retirement montage etc. I can't blame the guy if for whatever reason he loves to play, and still has the will to play on, but everything since then has felt almost painful to watch, and a reminder of what might have been if he'd been able to stay fit in 2017 onwards.

2013 Wimbledon, though, remains my all-time favourite sporting memory.

[smurfchops]

Unfortunately he has a charisma bypass

[andy-hughes]

Smurfchops  - Mr Murray is a sportsman not a motivational speaker. 

His charisma emerges when he hits tennis balls.

[douglas9401]

Charisma is for snake oil salesmen and evangelical preachers.

To paraphrase the great Henning Wehn, he does his joking after the work is done.