Wimbledon hope to have Murray statue ready by 2027

Sir Andy Murray says he feels "very proud" aft nan All England Club confirmed it will recognise his publication to tennis pinch a statue of him astatine Wimbledon.

Murray ended Britain's 77-year hold for a men's singles champion astatine Wimbledon pinch a memorable victory complete Novak Djokovic successful 2013, and triumphed again astatine SW19 successful 2016 erstwhile he hit Milos Raonic.

Former Wimbledon main executive Richard Lewis told BBC Sport successful 2019 nan nine would honour Murray pinch a statue erstwhile he vanished playing.

The Scot retired from master tennis successful August 2024 pursuing an quality astatine nan Olympic Games successful Paris.

Debbie Jevans, chair of nan All England Club, told nan Ainslie + Ainslie Performance People podcast, external it is now successful discussions pinch 38-year-old Murray to make bully connected nan committedness and hoped to person nan statue successful spot by 2027.

"We are looking to person a statue of Andy Murray present [at Wimbledon] and we're moving intimately pinch him and his team," Jevans said.

"The ambition is that we would unveil that astatine nan 150th day of our first championship, which was 1877. He's sewage to rightly beryllium very progressive successful that and he and his squad will be."

A bronze statue of Fred Perry, nan past British men's champion earlier Murray, was erected astatine Wimbledon successful 1984 to people nan 50th day of his first singles championship.

Murray told BBC Sport: "I would expect that pinch Wimbledon and their attraction to item that it will beryllium great.

"I'm very proud, there's not galore statues astir nan grounds there, and I ever retrieve seeing nan Fred Perry statue erstwhile I've walked astir nan grounds and gone to train and practise location complete nan years. It will beryllium very special."

Jevans said Murray would beryllium arsenic deserving of being immortalised having provided "special" moments successful nan club's history.

"Now he's retired, we're very overmuch looking astatine really we tin clasp him, for him to beryllium a portion of nan nine successful nan agelong term," she added.

"We looked astatine Rafa Nadal having that benignant of plaque unveiled to him astatine Roland Garros which was each very special. We thought, what do we want for Andy?"