Wimbledon has revealed plans to honour Sir Andy Murray with a statue at the All England Club.

The Briton, a two-time British Open champion in 2013 and 2016, retired from competitive tennis last year and will be involved in designing the sculpture. Wimbledon hopes the statue will be unveiled in 2027 during the 150th anniversary of the Grand Slam tournament.

"We want to put up a statue of Andy Murray here and we're working closely with him and his team. The ambition is to put it up on the 150th anniversary of our first tournament in 1877. He deserves to be involved in that and that's what we're going to do. We had a great celebration of Andy's last match at Wimbledon, which was on Centre Court. All the senior players came and congratulated him and Sue Barker interviewed him. We also saw Rafa Nadal being honoured at Roland Garros - that was very special. And we thought, what can we do for Andy?", All England Club chair Debbie Jevans told the ainslie + ainslie Performance People podcast.

Tennis legends John McEnroe and Billie Jean King are among former players who have called for a Murray statue at Wimbledon. The Scot ended a 77-year wait for a singles title in London. He retired after the Paris Olympics last summer.

A bronze statue of Fred Perry, the last British men's champion before Murray, was erected at Wimbledon in 1984 to mark the 50th anniversary of his first singles championship. | BGNES