by Wimbledon plans to honor Sir Andy Murray with a statue in the All England Club.
Murray, the Wimbledon Herren -Singles Champion in 2013 and 2016, retired last year and will be involved in the design of the sculpture.
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Wimbledon hopes that the statue will be unveiled in 2027 during the 150th anniversary of the championship.
Murray is to be honored with his own Wimbledon statue, just like the former British master Fred Perry (Adam Davy/Pa).
“We want to have a statue of Andy Murray (Wimbledon) here and we work closely with him and his team,” Debbie Jevans, chairman of the entire England Club, told Podcast Ainslie + Ainslie Performance People.
“The ambition is that we would reveal this on the 150th anniversary of our first championship, which was in 1877.
“He rightly has to be involved and he and his team will be.”
Tennis greats John Mcenroe and Billie Jean King are among those who have previously been asked to be honored with a statue in Wimbledon.
Murray received a Wimbledon party after his last game last year after his last game in an interview with Sue Barker (Zac Goodwin/PA).
The Scot ended a 77-year waiting period that a British man crowned the Wimbledon-Singles Champion and retired after the Olympic Games in Paris last August.
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Jevans said: “We had a great celebration for Andy when he played his last (Wimbledon) Match, which was on the Center Court.
“All old players came and they welcomed him and Sue Barker interviewed him.
“We looked at Rafa Nadal when he contained this kind of badge with Roland Garros, which was very special. But we thought what do we want for Andy?”
In Wimbledon, a bronze statue by Fred Perry, the last British master’s master ahead of Murray, was built in 1984 for the 50th anniversary of his first singles championship.
