Andy and Jamie Murray to join forces for doubles at Wimbledon

While the two siblings have joined forces on the ATP tour in recent years, it will be the first time the pair have played together at a Grand Slam.

Andy Murray has been battling to return to full fitness after picking up a horrific ankle injury at the Miami Open in March and the 37-year-old suffered a fresh scare as he crashed out of the French Open doubles this month.

The legendary Brit – a two-time Wimbledon champion – has made no secret of the fact he is considering retirement and does not plan to play much beyond the summer.

According to The Sunday Times, the Murray brothers reached the decision to join forces at SW19 ‘in recent days’ and Wimbledon chiefs will look to schedule the duo on Centre Court if possible next month.

Andy Murray currently has a singles ranking of No.97, while Jamie is ranked No.24 in the world for doubles, and their combined total means a wild card is unlikely to be needed in order to compete.

It comes after Jamie Murray’s regular doubles partner, Michael Venus, opted to join forces with Great Britain’s Neal Skupski instead on the grass.

‘It would obviously be really cool to do it,’ Jamie Murray revealed earlier this month when quizzed on the possibility of teaming up with his younger brother at Wimbledon earlier this month.

‘It’s something that we probably wanted to do at some point in our career and maybe now is the only opportunity to do it.

‘So maybe it’s a case of now or never.’

‘I guess for both of us it was kind of an opportunity to put our names in the frame to play the Olympics,’ Murray responded asked whether he could play with Evans in Paris.

‘Me and Dan obviously were hoping to have a good run here. But it wasn’t to be. So I don’t know if we’ll get the opportunity. There’s guys obviously ahead of us in the rankings, and we’ve got good doubles players in the UK. Let’s see what happens.

‘It was an opportunity to have a good run and didn’t happen. I don’t regret it. Obviously when you lose, if you could have said, ‘OK, you’re going to lose in the first round’ four days ago, yeah, you would regret sticking around.

‘I felt like we had a good chance to do well and we agreed if we were going to play, we would play to try and win the tournament.

‘So no I don’t regret playing at all. I have been struggling a little bit with my back the last couple of weeks, so I probably needed a few lighter days anyway. Yeah, I’ll get a chance to get home, start preparing on the grass and hopefully get a few good tournaments there.’

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