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PARIS - Andy Murray again staved off the end of his illustrious career as he and British doubles partner Dan Evans beat Belgium's Sander Gille and Joran Vliegen in another Paris Games cliffhanger at Roland Garros on Tuesday.Two-time Olympic singles champion Murray and his partner were cheered on by sizeable British contingent on a hot and muggy night on Court Suzanne Lenglen as they won 6-3 6-7 11-9 to reach the quarter-finals.But the score did not tell the story.
The 37-year-old former world number one, a three-time Grand Slam champion, will retire after the Olympics, but the ending to the final chapter of his career could still be a golden one."What happened again was incredible, we're getting close," Evans told reporters. "Really close to doing something pretty special. I don't think he wants to go home.
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