Farewell Andy Murray – a hero whose retirement will leave a huge hole in sporting landscape

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t the Dunblane Sports Club where it all began for Andy and Jamie Murray, tennis balls were arranged on court to send a simple message to Australia.“Thank You,” it said, from “the people” of a Scottish town eternally bound to tragedy.

In the deluge of tributes to Murray, whose career could end in Melbourne on Monday, or at the latest at this year’s Wimbledon, those fluorescent balls captured the essence of a great life in sport. Murray has broken down lots of times now: when he won Wimbledon, when he lost at Wimbledon and when his body told him the end was here, in Australia on Friday, but the tears that ran most movingly came when he tried to talk about the Dunblane massacre of March 13, 1996,...