Andy Murray assesses Olympic Games chances as retirement decision looms

Murray has continued to drop hints of his impending retirement from the sport, noting last month that he ‘did not plan on playing much past this summer’.

Wimbledon, where Murray has won two of his three grand slams, may be seen as the most likely venue for his swan song.

However, the Scot has admitted he still harbours ambitions of playing in another Olympic Games this summer in France.

The 36-year-old is the only male player to win two singles gold medals but insisted he would have to earn his way onto the team, not wanting to unfairly take a spot from one of his countrymen.

‘I would love the chance to play in another Olympics but also genuinely only if I felt like there was a chance of winning a medal,’ he said in an interview with The Times.

‘We have top doubles players and also Jack [Draper], Cam [Norrie] and Evo [Dan Evans] in singles as well.

‘I don’t want to be in a position where I’m getting selected to play there just because it might be the last tournament that I play.’

With a singles opportunity perhaps unlikely, Murray’s route into a fourth Games could come in the doubles competition where he reached the quarter-finals alongside Joe Salisbury in Tokyo.

Murray has faced relentless questions about his retirement from the sport after a disappointing start to the year which saw him lose six straight matches for the first time in his career.

But he suggested he was in no hurry to put an exact date on his impending finale.

‘The decision is my decision to be made, not anyone else’s. I don’t see why there should be a keenness for people to stop doing what it is that they enjoy doing,’ he noted.

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