It’s like the last day of school, but the very last one, after High School and College, when you say goodbye to the sweet years to move towards a new path. Towards a new future. There is a melancholy air, a taste of farewell. Something that will never return but that we will always carry in our hearts. I had already said it for the moving and heartbreaking retirements of Roger Federer and Serena Williams, I say it again today, after Andy Murray made his retirement from tennis official, at the end of the Paris Olympics. A circle that closes, memories that mix and a legacy to be taken in hand for the younger generations.
We have now arrived at the final stages of Murray’s glorious career. The Scottish champion has had to grit his teeth in recent years, due to continuous physical limitations, but always with the usual touching passion that distinguishes him. But now there has come a point where it is time to say enough. The 37-year-old from Glasgow, through a post, announced that the Paris Olympic Games will represent his last tennis tournament.
An event that has meant so, so much to him. Two-time Olympic champion, both in 2012 in London and in 2016 in Rio De Janeiro: it was probably the right epilogue to…
