Andy Murray Announces Impending Retirement - Catherine and David react from Melbourne
The Tennis Podcast
David Law
4.5 • 2.6K Ratings
🗓️ 11 January 2019
⏱️ 34 minutes
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Summary
Hours after David Law joined Catherine Whitaker in Melbourne, Andy Murray came into the interview room, choked up with emotion, and revealed that he could no longer play with the pain that he is experiencing while trying to play tennis. He will retire at Wimbledon, if not before.
Afterwards, David and Catherine got together, and instead of dissecting the draws, they reacted to the news that so many had feared was coming.
They explain what the atmosphere was like in the room, what he said to Catherine in their Eurosport interview, and Catherine describes an emotional scene with his coach, Jamie Delgado.
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, I'm Andy Murray and you're listening to the Tennis Podcast. |
| 0:14.7 | Catherine Whitaker and myself, David Law, come to you from Melbourne Park. |
| 0:19.2 | We've made it. We are under blue skies, wispy white clouds. |
| 0:23.2 | Catherine's here for Eurosport. I'm here for BBC Radio. We're brought to you in |
| 0:27.1 | association with the telegraph. And we're delighted to be here and we're here |
| 0:31.2 | because of you and that's because Kickstarter has been completed. We've reached |
| 0:36.7 | our target so that's that's magnificent means that we can do the show |
| 0:40.4 | throughout the year. But we've got to get into a pretty big talking point. A huge |
| 0:46.0 | story has broken today that Andy Murray is to retire this year and he is not |
| 0:52.4 | going to be playing tennis after Wimbledon of this year. He's come into a press |
| 0:56.8 | conference today. He's announced that his target is Wimbledon. But even that feels |
| 1:03.7 | a little bit of an optimistic target right now. He came into his press conference. |
| 1:08.8 | He broke down upon answering the first question of the day which was |
| 1:13.3 | quite simply how are you feeling? And he said not great. And he broke into tears. |
| 1:19.2 | He had to leave the room for a few minutes. He came back in and he explained that he's |
| 1:24.3 | been playing with pain throughout this period. We know that he played a practice match |
| 1:32.5 | yesterday with Novak Djokovic which Catherine attended and she'll be able to tell you |
| 1:36.4 | more about that. But really it was very clear that Andy Murray has reached the end game here |
| 1:42.4 | and he knew it a couple of months ago. He knew that he needed to set himself an end point |
| 1:48.7 | as he described it. He said a hack to do that with my team and we decided Wimbledon |
| 1:53.9 | would be where I'd want to go out if I can. But as he sat there in tears it was quite clear. |
| 2:00.9 | He doesn't actually know if he can stand it whether he can stand playing tennis until that point |
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