Murray silences the doubters

■ ANDY MURRAY has been told many times by many people in the last few years that he really ought to bring the curtain down on his career. He has been told to accept the ravages of time and the effects it has had on his body and step aside. Well this week, the man who may be the greatest tennis player this country has ever had beat top seed Stefanos Tsitsipas to reach the semi-finals of the Stuttgart Open — where he then overcame Nick Kyrgios. It was the first time Murray (left) had beaten a top five player since 2016. Other players would have listened to the siren voices telling them to give up. Murray, thankfully, is not built like that.