Sir Andy Murray says he feels “very proud” after the All England Membership confirmed it would recognise his contribution to tennis with a statue of him at Wimbledon.
Murray ended Britain’s 77-year look ahead to a males’s singles champion at Wimbledon with a memorable victory over Novak Djokovic in 2013, and triumphed once more at SW19 in 2016 when he beat Milos Raonic.
Former Wimbledon chief government Richard Lewis advised BBC Sport in 2019 the membership would honour Murray with a statue when he completed enjoying.
The Scot retired from skilled tennis in August 2024 following an look on the Olympic Video games in Paris.
Debbie Jevans, chair of the All England Membership, advised the Ainslie + Ainslie Efficiency Individuals podcast, exterior it’s now in discussions with 38-year-old Murray to make good on the promise and hoped to have the statue in place by 2027.
“We want to have a statue of Andy Murray right here [at Wimbledon] and we’re working intently with him and his crew,” Jevans stated.
“The ambition is that we’d unveil that on the one hundred and fiftieth anniversary of our first championship, which was 1877. He is acquired to rightly be very concerned in that and he and his crew can be.”
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.
Murray advised BBC Sport: “I might count on that with Wimbledon and their consideration to element that will probably be nice.
“I am very proud, there’s not many statues across the grounds there, and I all the time bear in mind seeing the Fred Perry statue once I’ve walked across the grounds and gone to coach and practise there over time. Will probably be very particular.”
Jevans stated Murray could be equally deserving of being immortalised having supplied “particular” moments within the membership’s historical past.
“Now he is retired, we’re very a lot how we will embrace him, for him to be part of the membership in the long run,” she added.
“We checked out Rafa Nadal having that type of plaque unveiled to him at Roland Garros which was all very particular. We thought, what do we wish for Andy?”
