Andy Murray and Jamie Murray will join forces at Wimbledon (Picture: Getty)
Andy Murray is set to team up with his brother Jamie Murray to play doubles at Wimbledon in what could be his last ever appearance at the championships.
While the two siblings have joined forces on the ATP tour in recent years, it will be the first time the pair have played together at a Grand Slam event.
Andy Murray has been battling to return to full fitness after picking up a horrific ankle injury at the Miami Open in March and the 37-year-old suffered a fresh scare as he crashed out of the French Open doubles this month.
The legendary Brit – a two-time Wimbledon champion – has made no secret of the fact he is considering retirement and does not plan to play much beyond the summer.
According to The Sunday Times, the Murray brothers reached the decision to join forces at SW19 ‘in recent days’ and Wimbledon chiefs will look to schedule the duo on Centre Court if possible next month.
Andy Murray currently has a singles ranking of No.97, while Jamie is ranked No.24 in the world for doubles, and their combined total means a wild card is unlikely to be needed in order to compete.
It comes after Jamie Murray’s regular doubles partner, Michael Venus, opted to join forces with Great Britain’s Neal Skupski instead on the grass.
Andy Murray teamed up with Dan Evans at the French Open (Picture: Getty)
‘It would obviously be really cool to do it,’ Jamie Murray revealed earlier this month when quizzed on the possibility of teaming up with his younger brother at Wimbledon earlier this month.
‘It’s something that we probably wanted to do at some point in our career and maybe now is the only opportunity to do it.
‘So maybe it’s a case of now or never.’
Jamie Murray is ranked No.24 in the world for doubles (Picture: Getty)
He added: ‘I asked Andy if he wanted to play and it’s not necessarily an easy decision for him to commit to playing the doubles.
‘He knows obviously I want to play and do my best and play as long as we can.
‘I guess he needs to figure out if it’s going to be worth it, or how much it might interfere with what he wants to do in the singles and how he’s feeling about his game and physically.’
Andy Murray has been open with his retirement plans (Picture: Getty)
After his exit in the doubles at the French Open, Murray revealed he was ‘struggling a little’ for fitness and therefore would not be able to defend his title at the Surbiton Trophy.
‘Unfortunately, I won’t be back to defend my title at the Surbiton Trophy this year.
‘It’s such a great tournament with amazing fans so it’s been a tough decision but one my team and I felt we needed to make.’
This summer’s championships could be Andy Murray’s last at SW19 (Picture: Getty)
Murray is targeting a third Olympic gold medal for Great Britain this summer and had hoped to enjoy a ‘good run’ alongside Dan Evans in the doubles at Roland Garros in preparation for this summer’s Games.
‘I guess for both of us it was kind of an opportunity to put our names in the frame to play the Olympics,’ Murray responded asked whether he could play with Evans in Paris.
‘Me and Dan obviously were hoping to have a good run here. But it wasn’t to be. So I don’t know if we’ll get the opportunity. There’s guys obviously ahead of us in the rankings, and we’ve got good doubles players in the UK. Let’s see what happens.
‘It was an opportunity to have a good run and didn’t happen. I don’t regret it. Obviously when you lose, if you could have said, ‘OK, you’re going to lose in the first round’ four days ago, yeah, you would regret sticking around.
‘I felt like we had a good chance to do well and we agreed if we were going to play, we would play to try and win the tournament.
‘So no I don’t regret playing at all. I have been struggling a little bit with my back the last couple of weeks, so I probably needed a few lighter days anyway. Yeah, I’ll get a chance to get home, start preparing on the grass and hopefully get a few good tournaments there.’
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