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Andy Murray

Andy Murray Biography

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Andrew Murray, Britain's most successful tennis player of the Open era, was born on 15 May 1987 to Will and Judy Murray in Glasgow, Scotland. He has an older brother called Jamie with whom he often plays in doubles matches.

He started playing tennis at the age of five despite being born with a bipartite patella, which means his kneecap stayed as two separate bones rather than fusing together. This wasn't diagnosed until he was 16, at which time he had an operation to fix it, and didn't play tennis for six months. It still bothers him sometimes to this day.

Leon Smith was his tennis coach between the age of 11 and 17 and helped Murray kick-start his successful career. Smith has described a five-year-old Murray as being 'extremely competitive' while Murray himself attributes his ambition to succeed from losing to Jamie as a child.

His first competitive event was the Orange Bowl at the age of 12 years. Murray won his age group at the prestigious event for junior tennis players. He then briefly played football and was asked to train with Rangers Football Club at the age of 15 years but he declined in order to focus on his tennis.

At 15 years[-old], Murray moved to Barcelona, Spain to study at the Schiller International School and to train on the clay courts of the Sanchez-Casal Academy. He also played with the former world number one doubles player Emillio Sanchez while in Spain.

His tennis career really started to take off from July 2003 when he reached the quarter finals of the Manchester Challenger before losing to the future world top ten player Fernando Verdasco in the first round of his next tournament.

Murray's first senior title win occurred in September that year when he took the Glasgow Futures event. This was followed by reaching the semi-finals of the Edinburgh Futures event before he lost to Jo-Wilfried Tsonga in the second round of the Nottingham Futures tournament. In 2004, he won matches in Xatvia and Rome.

Later that year, he won the Junior US Open and the BBC Young Sports Personality of the Year. As a junior in 2003, he was ranked number six in the world peaking at number two in 2004 using combined instated rankings.

Murray then became the youngest Brit to ever play in the Davis Cup in March 2005 and helped Britain win the tie with a crucial doubles win. He then turned professional and made his first appearances at Queens and Wimbledon. In the latter he reached the third round to become the first Scot in the Open era to do so.

Since then, he has reached the final of the US Open in 2008, two finals of the Australian Open in 2010 and 2011 and the semi-final of the French Open in 2011.

Meanwhile, 2012 has been a great year for Murray so far as he reached the Wimbledon final for the first time, after years of being knocked out in the quarter and semi-finals of the Grand Slam. It was the first time a British player had reached the final since Bunny Austin in 1938.

He was against his old rival Roger Federer and after taking the first set he lost the match. Often criticised for not showing his emotion, he improved his reputation by showing his disappointment at not having won the Grand Slam.

However, London 2012 gave Murray the chance to bounce back and he did. Looking very relaxed and on top-form, Murray beat another long-term rival Novak Djochovic to reach the gold medal match at the Olympics.

Facing Federer once again, Murray won the match in straight sets to take the gold medal. He showed his joy at becoming the first Brit to win a gold tennis medal for 100 years by climbing onto the commentator's box to reach his girlfriend Kim Sears to celebrate. Straight after, he won a silver medal in the mixed doubles with Laura Robson.

Now ranked number four in the world, Murray is Britain's most successful player of the Open era at the age of just 25 years.

Andy Murray