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Judy Murray has shared a video of her son, Andy Murray, eating a doughnut following his retirement from tennis.
Andy, 37, played the final match of his last tournament on Thursday (August 1), when he and Dan Evans were soundly defeated 6-2, 6-4 by Americans Tommy Paul and Taylor Fritz in the quarter-finals of the men's doubles competition at the Paris Olympics.
The match brought to an end a glittering 20-year career during which Andy won three Grand Slam titles and two Olympic gold medals.
Judy, 64, who coached her son in his early years, has now shared an X-rated clip of her son enjoying some well-deserved sweets while watching women's gymnastics.
She captioned her post: “When you can finally eat whatever you want…”
Judy added a donut emoji and a pig emoji at the end.
Another tennis legend, former world number one Billie Jean King, can be seen sitting behind Andy in the clip, filming the gymnastics event with her phone.
Hours after his match on Thursday, Murray delighted fans with his famous deadpan humour, joking of X: “I never liked tennis anyway.”
The comment was accompanied by a slight change to his bio, which now reads “I played tennis,” whereas before it said “I play tennis.”
Judy retweeted the post and wrote: “Me neither.”
In an interview with Eurosport, Murray said he was “looking forward to what comes next” and revealed he had received a message from Bjorn Borg.
“He said, ‘Congratulations to one of the best of all time, good luck for what’s next,’” Andy said.
“I am very aware that the guys I was competing against had significantly better careers than mine.
“But, for a period in the middle of my career, I competed with them at the biggest tournaments consistently and managed to reach number one in the world while they were all playing and that meant a lot to me.
“It hasn’t been easy to win the major competitions while they’ve existed. So to have someone of that stature recognise it is obviously something very special.”
Coinciding with Andy's retirement, his wife Kim gave an interview to The Telegraph, in which she admitted that it had been “hard work” living with her husband despite his injuries over the years.
“It was very difficult to live with him all that time,” she said. “I was trying to raise a little boy and he was really very sad. He was in a lot of pain. Even walking the dog was horrible. And I thought it was horrible too, because it was such hard work.”
Andy began dating Kim in 2005, the daughter of footballer-turned-coach Nigel Sears. The couple announced their engagement in 2014 and married the following year. They have four children.
