Andy Murray and Jamie Murray team up at Wimbledon for first time as brothers given late doubles wildcard

He had intended to play in both singles and doubles in what would likely be his final Wimbledon appearance.

But his injury setback put his participation into serious doubt with the 37-year-old admitting he was 'going to wait until the last minute'.

He said: "This is not clear-cut where I am 100 per cent going to be ready to play or there is a 0 per cent chance that I can play. That is the situation.

"I would say it's probably more likely that I'm not able to play singles right now."

But it's now been confirmed that Murray will play in the men's doubles alongside his brother Jamie, taking the last wildcard spot for the tournament.

The three-time grand slam singles winner has repeatedly indicated he plans on retiring this summer, suggesting his final Wimbledon appearance will now be alongside his brother.

Jamie is a two-time Grand Slam men's doubles champion having won the US Open and Australian Open in 2016 alongside Bruno Soares.

It will be the first time the two Murray brothers join forces at a Grand Slam event.

They famously teamed up for Great Britain when they won the Davis Cup final in 2015.

The doubles specialist was asked about the prospect of playing alongside his brother at Wimbledon recently.

"It would obviously be really cool to do it," he said.

"It’s something that we probably wanted to do at some point in our career and maybe now is the only opportunity to do it.

"So maybe it’s a case of now or never."

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Andy has already stated he will not be returning next year and confirmed retirement will likely come after the Olympics.

He said: “I know that there’s more important things in the world than how I finish playing my last tennis match or where I finished playing my last tennis match.

"But because of what I put into the sport over the last however many years, I would at least like to go out playing a proper match where I’m at least competitive, not what happened at Queen’s. So I can’t say for sure that if I wasn’t able to play at Wimbledon, and I didn’t recover in time to play at the Olympics, that I wouldn’t consider trying to play another tournament somewhere.

"But if I’m able to play at Wimbledon and if I’m able to play at the Olympics, that’s most likely going to be it.”