He wrote: “Arrived in Paris for my last ever tennis tournament @Olympics Competing for GB have been by far the most memorable weeks of my career and I’m extremely proud to get do it one final time!”

The 37-year-old pulled out of the singles event moments before the draw was made on Thursday, citing his decision to focus completely on the doubles. Ahead of his retirement, he said: “I’m happy about it.

“Look, a few months ago I didn’t know, I wasn’t happy about potentially stopping, I was quite unsure about it. But now that the time is here, now I’ve made that decision definitively, I feel good about it.”