{"id":231933,"date":"2025-07-02T12:02:13","date_gmt":"2025-07-02T12:02:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/231933\/"},"modified":"2025-07-02T12:02:13","modified_gmt":"2025-07-02T12:02:13","slug":"andy-murray-admits-split-from-wife-led-him-to-making-extravagant-purchase","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/231933\/","title":{"rendered":"Andy Murray admits split from wife led him to making extravagant purchase"},"content":{"rendered":"

Sir Andy Murray took to the stage at the New Wimbledon Theatre last night, marking the final stop of his four-date tour as he tentatively transforms from tennis champion to storyteller. <\/p>\n

The production, titled Centre Stage, saw the 38-year-old surrounded by dozens of his old tennis rackets, each telling its own story.<\/p>\n

“This one,” he said, picking up a racket marked “Sunday” with a string tension of 56lb, “was the one I used to win my first Wimbledon final.”<\/p>\n

The sold-out venue drew 1,700 admirers, including Billie Jean King and Sir Gareth Southgate.<\/p>\n

\"Andy<\/p>\n

Andy Murray and wife Kim briefly split in 2008<\/p>\n

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Broadcaster Andrew Cotter hosted the evening, joking that Murray worried nobody would attend.<\/p>\n

Murray shared remarkably candid details about his personal life, including the brief split from his wife Kim in 2008.<\/p>\n

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“I bought a Ferrari,” he recalled. “I called it Barry the Ferrari. I thought it was cool, but it didn’t last very long.”<\/p>\n

The purchase proved ill-fated from the start. “The first day I took it out to drive, it got pulled over by the police because the insurance hadn’t cleared,” Murray admitted.<\/p>\n

He disposed of the vehicle within months, acknowledging it “wasn’t really me.”<\/p>\n

The former world number one described the uncharacteristic behaviour as a response to being “shaken” by their temporary separation.<\/p>\n

Murray spoke openly about the physical agony that ended his career. In 2017, despite arriving at Wimbledon as world number one, he recognised his hip was “ruined.”<\/p>\n

He revealed taking codeine before his loss to Sam Querrey due to unbearable pain, leaving him “dazed and disengaged.”<\/p>\n

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\"Andy<\/p>\n

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The emotional toll became evident in 2018 when footage showed him at 3am in a near-empty Washington stadium, “physically heaving with sobs.”<\/p>\n

“I was crying not because of the effort his match had taken, but because I recognised that yet another operation on his hip had failed to work,” he explained.<\/p>\n

John McEnroe made a special appearance, having adjusted his transatlantic flight to attend. <\/p>\n

“Andy, I hope that you stay involved with the sport, in whatever way you’re happy with,” McEnroe told him.<\/p>\n

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\"Andy<\/p>\n

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“This sport needs you, and it would love you to be around on a somewhat regular basis.”<\/p>\n

Murray remains uncertain about his future direction. His recent coaching stint with Novak Djokovic at the Australian Open left him unconvinced, muttering: “I had better not say any more as I can see Novak’s agents are in the audience.”<\/p>\n

Commentary work has similarly been ruled out after his sole BBC appearance in 2018, which he concluded with: “Well, that was horrific.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Sir Andy Murray took to the stage at the New Wimbledon Theatre last night, marking the final stop…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":231934,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4105],"tags":[512,93,79,1068,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-231933","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tennis","8":"tag-sgg","9":"tag-sport","10":"tag-sports","11":"tag-tennis","12":"tag-uk","13":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114783541387292848","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231933","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=231933"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231933\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/231934"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=231933"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=231933"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=231933"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}