Relaxed Murray surprised he does not miss playing

Andy Murray has revealed status has been "the implicit opposite" to what helium expected and that helium is not missing tennis similar helium thought helium would.

The 37-year-old Briton, a three-time Grand Slam champion, called clip connected his illustrious 19-year vocation aft the Paris Olympics successful August.

Murray underwent a hep resurfacing cognition successful 2019 and had assorted wounded struggles during the last fewer years of his career.

"Since I've stopped, I consciousness truly escaped and person got tons of clip to bash immoderate it is I want," Murray told BBC Radio 4's Today programme.

"I tin dedicate clip to my children and person escaped clip to play play oregon spell to the gym connected my ain terms.

"It is truly bully and I didn't expect that. I was expecting to find status hard and beryllium missing tennis a batch and wanting to get backmost connected the tennis tribunal connected tour.

"So acold it has been the implicit other to what I was thinking."

The 37-year-old won his archetypal Grand Slam successful 2012 astatine the US Open earlier ending Britain's 77-year hold for a men's Wimbledon champion successful 2013 erstwhile helium defeated Novak Djokovic, earlier winning it again successful 2016.

Murray, who won Olympic golden successful the singles astatine London 2012 and Rio 2016, played the last lucifer of his vocation astatine Paris 2024, losing successful the doubles quarter-finals aft epic comeback wins successful the erstwhile 2 rounds.

He acknowledged determination was nary "perfect ending" for a tennis subordinate but revealed helium was present feeling guilt-free astir his 4 children and woman Kim.

"The happening that I ever recovered hard successful caller years was that determination was ever a guilt associated with what I was doing," Murray, who played 1,001 singles matches successful his career, added.

"If I was going distant for a travel of similar 3 to 4 weeks I would consciousness blameworthy leaving my children astatine location oregon being distant from my woman for a agelong clip with them, truthful missing the kids I recovered hard.

"But if I was astatine location with the kids past I was moving astir and spending a batch of my clip connected my feet aft training.

"I was past reasoning 'is this going to impact my grooming oregon show the adjacent day, should I person my feet up?' I recovered that worldly hard implicit the past fewer years."