Judy Murray has claimed she was being sarcastic when she appeared to criticise Emma Raducanu’s Wimbledon mixed doubles withdrawal as ‘astonishing’. Raducanu was due to join Andy Murray for his SW19 farewell but pulled out on Saturday morning.
Murray’s mixed doubles campaign with Raducanu would have been his final set of matches at Wimbledon before his retirement. Instead, his doubles defeat with brother Jamie Murray on Thursday is set to go down as his swansong.
Raducanu withdrew after feeling soreness in her wrist after waking up on Thursday. The 21-year-old is into the fourth round of the women’s singles and could reach the Wimbledon quarter-final for the first time in her career.
Murray’s mum Judy called Raducanu’s withdrawal ‘astonishing’. After tennis presenter Marcus Buckland wrote that Raducanu’s move was ‘astonishing’, the 64-year-old replied: “Yes, astonishing.”
The words were interpreted as criticism of Raducanu’s decision and Judy subsequently locked her X account so only people who followed her could see her posts. She has now insisted that the post was sarcasm.
Judy wrote: “Not sure anyone understands sarcasm these days.
Pretty sure the scheduling (4th match court 1 with a singles following day) will have played a major part in any decision making.”
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