By Richard Pagliaro | @TennisNow | Tuesday, June 24, 2025
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Andy Murray will be part of the Wimbledon landscape forever.
An Andy Murray statue will be erected on the Wimbledon grounds by 2027, AELTC Chair Debbie Jevans told the Ainslie + Ainslie Performance People podcast in comments published by BBC today.
We are looking to have a statue of Andy Murray here [at Wimbledon] and we’re working closely with him and his team,” Jevans said on the podcast.
“The ambition is that we would unveil that at the 150th anniversary of our first championship, which was 1877. He’s got to rightly be very involved in that and he and his team will be.”
Last July, All England Lawn Tennis Club CEO Sally Bolton said during Wimbledon the club plans a “long-lasting tribute” to Murray on the grounds.
First, officials want to discuss possible plans with the three-time Grand Slam champion to ensure Murray approves before launching the project.
The iconic Fred Perry statue will be getting some company: an Andy Murray statue that would connect the nation’s pre-Open Wimbledon champion Perry with Open Era champion Murray, who defeated Novak Djokovic in the 2013 Wimbledon final becoming the first British man since Perry in 1936 to win Wimbledon.
“As we said before: the plans for celebrating Andy’s career are broader than just what we decided to do on court.” Bolton told about 10 journalists in a short Q&A during the second week of Wimbledon last July. “So we’ve talked about a statue on the grounds somewhere.
“I think our view is that with those parts of a longer-lasting tribute we really want to engage with Andy on what those look like.
“We don’t think there’s a rush to do those things. Our plan is to work with Andy [on a tribute].”
