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Tom Hamilton, Senior Author
Andy Murray will not be “100% positive” 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 possibility to be on the group.
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 just a little bit bodily how I’m doing,” Murray stated Sunday. “How the following few weeks go as effectively. Yeah, my plan simply now’s to play, however it’s not simple.
“I am going to 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 possibility to play.”
Katie Boulter is the only Nice Britain consultant within the ladies’s singles. Tokyo 2020 Olympians Neal Skupski and Joe Salisbury will compete in males’s doubles, with different pairings throughout each males’s and girls’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 Group GB,” Group GB chef de mission Mark England stated. “The calibre of the group 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 yr, has been granted an Worldwide Tennis Federation place to compete within the singles occasion of the Olympic tennis match as a consequence of being a former Grand Slam winner and Olympic gold medalist in 2012 and ’16.
Murray, who additionally received the silver medal in blended doubles alongside Laura Robson at London 2012, has beforehand stated he does not plan to play on a lot past this summer season.
Raducanu, who lately returned from a prolonged harm absence, turned down the possibility to compete in Paris due to the a number of modifications in floor over the approaching weeks.
The Olympics match will likely be performed at Roland Garros and on clay.
“I feel she feels it’s not the appropriate time for her,” Iain Bates, head of Group GB’s tennis group, stated Sunday. “Loads of that’s the late discover for the spot, additionally the floor change from grass, clay and onerous. Everyone seems to be conscious of her historical past and that locations better 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.
