Tim Henman and Naomi Broady reflect on Andy Murray’s retirement plans and what he may do after he hangs up his racket

Tim Henman and Naomi Broady reflect on Andy Murray’s retirement plans and what he may do after he hangs up his racket. Tim Henman says “we will all miss Andy Murray” when he hangs up his racket, which the two-time Wimbledon champion has indicated will be this summer.

Murray, 36, has said that he “did not plan on playing much past this summer” although he would love to play at another Olympic Games, but only if he felt like there was a chance of winning a medal.

The three-time Grand Slam winner, who held the No 1 spot in the men’s singles rankings for a total of 41 weeks in the same era as Roger Federer, Rafael Nadal and Novak Djokovic, could focus on the doubles at the Paris Olympics, which will be played on his least favourite surface, clay, at Roland Garros.

Henman says we should enjoy what Murray has left to give over the next few months and added “we’ll miss him when he’s gone”. The former British No 1 said: “There’s been a lot of talk around his retirement and I’ve always said that he should play for as long as he wants. There’s been an indication that he’s going to stop sometime in the summer and when we all look back and reflect on what he’s achieved, it’s absolutely incredible.

Henman also spoke about what it was like to play Murray, with the Scot winning on three out of the four occasions the pair met, in the time they played together in the same era. “I played him four times and I didn’t enjoy playing him because first and foremost the game style, he was such a good counter-puncher, such a good mover, and such a good returner,” said Henman, a four-time Wimbledon semi-finalist. “He was a slightly better version of Leyton Hewitt and I didn’t like playing Hewitt – we were also at different stages of our career.

“There was a certain amount of expectation that went with those matches from a British point of view but he’s been a great friend of mine since he was probably 16, 17 coming on the scene and hopefully I’ll get him on the golf course a bit more once he’s retired.”