Jamie Murray is preparing for life on the tennis tour without his younger brother Andy.
Jamie Murray isn’t surprised that his younger brother Andy will finish his professional tennis career before him.
The three-time Grand Slam champion previously said he would stop playing this summer, though he has yet to give a specific retirement date.
Jamie, 38, is still planning to play for a while despite taking on a new role as the Queen’s tournament director. And he shed light on what life will be like without Andy on the tour.
“That will be weird to not have him there,” the former doubles No. 1 said after his first-round win at the French Open. “I mean obviously it’s a fairly unique situation to have your brother doing the same job as you at a high-level sport and travelling the world together.”
Although they don’t hang out too often at tournaments, the elder Murray brother explained that it was good to know that his brother was around. He continued: “That is a nice thing, even if, you know, we don’t spend loads of time together at the events just because schedules and stuff can be very different.
“But you know that in the background you’ve always got someone from your family there, which is nice even if you’re not accessing it all the time. When he does stop, whenever that is, it’ll be strange not to have him on the tour. Because we’ve been doing the same thing for like 20 years basically. It’ll be a big miss.”
