Wimbledon to honour two-time champion Andy Murray with statue | Tennis Information
Wimbledon have revealed plans to honour Sir Andy Murray with a statue on the All England Membership.
Murray, the Wimbledon males’s singles champion in 2013 and 2016, retired final 12 months and will likely be concerned in designing the sculpture.
Wimbledon hope the statue will likely be revealed in 2027 through the championship’s one hundred and fiftieth anniversary.
“We need to have a statue of Andy Murray right here (Wimbledon) and we’re working intently with him and his staff,” All England membership chair Debbie Jevans informed the ainslie + ainslie Efficiency Individuals podcast.
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“The ambition is that we might unveil that on the one hundred and fiftieth anniversary of our first Championship, which was 1877.
“He is received to rightly be very concerned in that and him and his staff will likely be.”
Tennis greats John McEnroe and Billie Jean King are amongst those who have beforehand known as for Murray to be honoured with a statue at Wimbledon.
The Scot ended a 77-year watch for a British man to be topped Wimbledon singles champion and retired after the Paris Olympics final August.
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Jevans stated: “We had a fantastic celebration for Andy when he performed his final (Wimbledon) match, which was on Centre Courtroom.
“All of the previous gamers got here and so they greeted him and Sue Barker interviewed him.
“We checked out Rafa Nadal having that type of plaque unveiled to him at Roland Garros which was all very particular. However we thought, what do we wish for Andy?”
A bronze statue of Fred Perry, the final British males’s champion earlier than Murray, was erected at Wimbledon in 1984 to mark the fiftieth anniversary of his first singles championship.
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