Andy Murray announces shocking career move after retirement from tennis at Paris Olympics 2024

British sports legend Andy Murray retired from professional tennis at the 2024 Paris Olympics. The 37-year-old ended an illustrious career with a quarterfinal qualification in the doubles event at the Summer Games. Now, after walking away from a sport that he claimed he “really never liked,” Murray is venturing into a new sport.

The three-time singles Grand Slam champion has changed his bio on social media platform X and has also updated his cover picture, indicating a new beginning for him.

Murray’s bio now reads, “I played tennis. I now play golf.” Meanwhile, his cover picture shows a golf course.

It is worth mentioning that Murray has been into golf for a long time and the Briton proved his love for the sport after his exit from the Paris Olympics. Soon after his defeat, Murray went head-to-head against his partner Dan Evans on a golf course.

What else can be a career option for retired Andy Murray?

Andy Murray spent quite a lot of time on the men’s tour and made a name for himself with his consistent performances. Despite competing in an era dominated by the Big Three- Roger Federer, Rafael Nadal, and Novak Djokovic, Murray achieved great heights.

Now that he is retired from professional tennis, the two-time Olympic gold medalist might be looking for other career opportunities where he can excel. While it seems Murray will go for golfing, former American tennis great James Blake feels the Briton can also explore coaching as a career path.

He could be a great coach. He knows the game so well, so I think he would help someone. I always think the mark of a great coach is really the way they're able to relate it to players, to their player, which is more individual, and so I would think he's going to be great at that.

Notably, Murray had himself hinted at picking coaching as his next career option during his farewell speech at Wimbledon this year. He also has names of the players who he would like to coach if he picks this as his career option. Murray revealed last year that he would like to coach Emma Raducanu, Carlos Alcaraz, Stefanos Tsitsipas, and Jack Draper.

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