The British icon went down fighting in his final match in the quarter-finals of the men’s doubles at the Olympic Games
‘Old age should burn and rave at close of day; Rage, rage against the dying of the light’, wrote Dylan Thomas in 1947. He could not, of course, have had the extended final act of Andy Murray’s tennis career in mind when he wrote those words. But perhaps he was prescient.
At Roland Garros on Thursday Murray raged, and did not did not go gently, but after an extended curtain call which produced some of the most joyous moments of the Paris 2024 Olympics, his long goodbye finally came to a close.