EM: MURRAY? SO LAST WEEK!
The Sunday Mirror|August 25, 2024
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NEIL MCLEMAN
EM: MURRAY? SO LAST WEEK!

EMMA RADUCANU has claimed Andy Murray is already “old news” as a new era in British tennis gets underway.

The former world No.1, Britain's greatest ever player, said an emotional farewell at his final Grand Slam at Wimbledon last month before retiring at the Olympics.

Murray had hoped to play a last mixed doubles match in SW19 with his fellow US Open champion but Raducanu pulled out citing a wrist injury. Judy Murray branded Raducanu's late withdrawal "astonishing".

And the world No.71 suggested her relationship with the double Olympic and Wimbledon-winning Scot, 37, is still strained by stating that the sport has quickly moved on from Murray.

The Bromley-based star, one of six British players in the singles at the US Open starting tomorrow, said: "It doesn't feel different at all.

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