ANDY OUT

Andy Murray Weeps as Tennis Career Ends in Olympics Loss

The legendary Briton and partner Dan Evans were eliminated by American tennis stars Taylor Fritz and Tommy Paul in a tennis doubles match.

The legendary British tennis star Andy Murray’s decades-long tennis career came to a close Thursday after a pair of Americans knocked him out of the Olympic Games’ doubles tournament. Murray, 37, announced before the Games that this competition would be his last, adding that he was pulling out of the singles event to fully focus on his bid for men’s doubles glory. He appeared to burst into tears after he and his partner, Dan Evans, were soundly defeated by Taylor Fritz and Tommy Paul in the quarter-finals. In 2004, a teenaged Murray won the Junior U.S. Open title, gaining buzz that he may eventually blossom into the greatest British tennis player of all time. After a career that included 46 singles titles, the U.K.’s governing body for tennis said Thursday that Murray had become just that. “Andy is the greatest tennis player ever to come from this country and is a giant of British sport,” the association said in a statement, adding that it was renaming a court in Murray’s honor. “Anyone who ever saw him play knows he put his heart and soul into his performances on the court.”