Andy Murray and Emma Raducanu to pair up in mixed doubles at Wimbledon

Andy Murray’s farewell tour of Wimbledon sparked further into life on Wednesday when he and Emma Raducanu entered the mixed doubles together.

It was a crowd-pleasing move from Murray, who was forced to withdraw from the singles event on Tuesday after failing to recover from surgery on a spinal cyst only ten days earlier.

The decision should give Murray another chance to spin the dice as he looks for one last roof-raising win at Wimbledon, the tournament where he claimed the singles title in both 2013 and 2016.

He has already run one successful mixed-doubles campaign on these courts, when he and Laura Robson teamed up to land the silver medal at the London Olympics in 2012.

Then Murray also entered the Wimbledon mixed-doubles event in 2019, the year after his hip resurfacing surgery. That summer, he chose Serena Williams as his partner, and the famous pairing won two rounds before coming unstuck against Bruno Soares and Nicole Melichar.

In that 2019 tournament, Murray was not ready to compete as a singles player, so played in both the doubles events, with his male partner being Pierre-Hugues Herbert.

He and Williams had different views on which portmanteau name should be used for their team, however, with Murray preferring SerAndy and Williams suggesting Murena.

In the case of this new partnership, options might include Raducandy or Maducanu. Calling them the Randies might give the wrong idea.