SHOW GOES ON AND ON

Old warhorse Murray is staging the longest goodbye

- JEREMY CROSS

HE just cannot bring himself to bid farewell to the game he loves so the long goodbye of Andy Murray goes on...and on.

Into the quarter-finals of another Olympic adventure, this time alongside Dan Evans, with the chance to go out in a blaze of gold... or silver.

Murray deserves a medal merely for being able to compete still on a tennis court. Or for how he and Evans saved five match points in their opening game of the men's doubles to somehow remain relevant on the famous red clay of Roland Garros.

Murray might be 37 but he will probably feel closer to 47 given what he has been through to remain in his sport.

Evans himself is no spring chicken at the age of 34 and has been playing through the pain of a knee problem he picked up before Wimbledon.