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Full name | Andrew Barron Murray |
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Country (sports) | ![]() |
Residence | Leatherhead, Surrey, England[1] |
Born | [2] Glasgow, Scotland[3][4][5] | 15 May 1987
Height | 6 ft 3 in (1.91 m)[6][7][8][9] |
Turned pro | 2005[7] |
Retired | 1 August 2024 |
Plays | Right-handed (two-handed backhand) |
Coach | Ivan Lendl (2012–14, 2016–17, 2022–2023)[10] |
Prize money | US $64,687,542[11] * 4th all-time leader in earnings |
Official website | andymurray.com |
Singles | |
Career record | 739–262 (73.8%)[a] |
Career titles | 46 (15th in the Open Era) |
Highest ranking | No. 1 (7 November 2016) |
Grand Slam singles results | |
Australian Open | F (2010, 2011, 2013, 2015, 2016) |
French Open | F (2016) |
Wimbledon | W (2013, 2016) |
US Open | W (2012) |
Other tournaments | |
Tour Finals | W (2016) |
Olympic Games | W (2012, 2016) |
Doubles | |
Career record | 83–86 (49.1%) |
Career titles | 3 |
Highest ranking | No. 51 (17 October 2011) |
Grand Slam doubles results | |
Australian Open | 1R (2006) |
French Open | 2R (2006) |
Wimbledon | 2R (2019) |
US Open | 2R (2008) |
Other doubles tournaments | |
Olympic Games | QF (2020, 2024) |
Mixed doubles | |
Career record | 7–4 |
Career titles | 0 |
Grand Slam mixed doubles results | |
Wimbledon | 3R (2019) |
Other mixed doubles tournaments | |
Olympic Games | F (2012) |
Team competitions | |
Davis Cup | W (2015) |
Hopman Cup | F (2010) |
Medal record |
Sir Andrew Barron Murray OBE (born 15 May 1987) is a British former professional tennis player. He was ranked world No. 1 in singles by the Association of Tennis Professionals (ATP) for 41 weeks, and finished as the year-end No. 1 in 2016. Murray won three Grand Slam singles titles, two at Wimbledon (in 2013 and 2016), and one at the US Open (in 2012), and reached eleven major finals. Murray was ranked in the top 10 for all but one month from July 2008 through to October 2017, and was in the top 4 in eight of the nine year-end rankings during that time. Murray won 46 ATP Tour singles titles, including 14 Masters 1000 events and two gold medals at the Summer Olympics.
Originally coached by his mother Judy alongside his older brother Jamie, Murray moved to Barcelona at age 15 to train at the Sánchez-Casal Academy. He began his professional career around the time Roger Federer and Rafael Nadal established themselves as the two dominant players in men's tennis. Murray had immediate success on the ATP Tour, making his top 10 debut in 2007 at age 19. By 2010, Murray and Novak Djokovic had joined Federer and Nadal in the Big Four, the group of players who dominated men's tennis during the 2010s. Murray initially struggled against the rest of the Big Four, losing his first four major finals (three to Federer and one to Djokovic). He made his major breakthrough in 2012 by defeating Djokovic to win the US Open, becoming the first British major singles champion since Virginia Wade in 1977, and the first male champion since Fred Perry in 1936. A month earlier, he had won the men's singles gold medal against Federer at the 2012 London Olympics, and a silver medal in mixed doubles.
From 2013 through 2016, Murray reached another six major finals; he won two of these, at Wimbledon in 2013 and 2016. Murray had his career-best season in 2016, when he made three major finals, winning Wimbledon. He also defended his title at the 2016 Rio Olympics to become the only player, male or female, to win two Olympic gold medals in singles. Murray also became world No. 1 for the first time that season, and clinched the year-end No. 1 ranking by winning the Tour Finals title over Djokovic. After 2016, he struggled with various injuries and fell out of the top 100 in 2018 due to only seldom playing on tour, though he slowly rose back to the top 50 in the 2020s. He played his final professional tennis tournament at the 2024 Paris Olympics.
Murray is an all-court player who excels in particular at defence, returning serve and constructing points. He is generally regarded as having one of the best and most consistent two-handed backhands on the ATP Tour. Murray is credited with re-establishing the United Kingdom as a leading force in men's tennis for the first time since the early 20th century. He and his brother led the Great Britain Davis Cup team to a title in 2015. Murray has been outspoken on issues of equality, and became only the second top-10 player in the history of the ATP Tour to have a female coach when he hired Amélie Mauresmo in 2014.
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