Andy Murray will not be “100% certain” he’ll play at a fifth Olympics for Nice Britain regardless of his choice for the Paris Video games on Sunday, whereas 2021 US Open winner Emma Raducanu has turned down the prospect to be on the staff.
Murray was named alongside Jack Draper, Cam Norrie and Dan Evans in males’s singles, and he was nominated for a spot in doubles alongside Evans.
“It relies upon somewhat bit bodily how I’m doing,” Murray mentioned Sunday. “How the following few weeks go as nicely. Yeah, my plan simply now’s to play, however it isn’t simple.
“I will discover out within the subsequent 10 days or so on the doubles and what is going on to occur there. Hopefully me and Evo get the prospect to play.”
Katie Boulter is the only Nice Britain consultant within the girls’s singles. Tokyo 2020 Olympians Neal Skupski and Joe Salisbury will compete in males’s doubles, with different pairings throughout each males’s and ladies’s doubles to be confirmed by the tip of June.
“It is an enormous privilege to as soon as once more announce our tennis gamers for Staff GB,” Staff GB chef de mission Mark England mentioned. “The calibre of the staff will get stronger with each Video games, and it’s nice to see a mixture of returning and first-time Olympians.”
Murray, who in February signaled his intention to retire later this 12 months, has been granted an Worldwide Tennis Federation place to compete within the singles occasion of the Olympic tennis match because of being a former Grand Slam winner and Olympic gold medalist in 2012 and ’16.
Murray, who additionally received the silver medal in combined doubles alongside Laura Robson at London 2012, has beforehand mentioned he does not plan to play on a lot past this summer time.
Raducanu, who just lately returned from a prolonged damage absence, turned down the prospect to compete in Paris due to the a number of adjustments in floor over the approaching weeks.
The Olympics match will likely be performed at Roland Garros and on clay.
“I feel she feels it isn’t the best time for her,” Iain Bates, head of Staff GB’s tennis staff, mentioned Sunday. “Lots of that’s the late discover for the spot, additionally the floor change from grass, clay and arduous. Everyone seems to be conscious of her historical past and that locations larger stress on her. Additionally a component of the place her rating is and attending to the U.S. and pushing again her rating.”
The Related Press contributed to this report.
