Andy Murray


Country
Birth date
Age
15/05/1987 
25
Height
Weight
Gender
188 cm / 6'2" 
84 kg / 185 lbs 
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Sport
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Grand Slams

Year Singles AO Doubles AO Singles RG Doubles RG Singles WI Doubles WI Singles UO Doubles UO
2012 SF - QF - RU - - -
2011 RU - SF - SF - SF -
2010 RU - R16 - SF - R32 -
2009 R16 - QF - SF - R16 -
2008 R128 - R32 - QF - RU R32
2007 R16 - - - - - R32 -
2006 R128 R64 R128 R32 R16 - R16 R64
2005 - - - - R32 R64 R64 -

ATP Tour 2012 Totals

Result Singles Doubles
Winner 1 -
Runner-up 3 -
Semifinal 1 -

ATP Tour 2012 Titles

Singles
Brisbane International
Doubles
-

Olympic Games - Singles
2008 Beijing, CHN - Seed 6

Phase Result Opponent Result
R64 Lost LU Yen-Hsun (TPE) 6-7(5), 4-6

Olympic Games - Doubles
2008 Beijing, CHN - Partner: MURRAY Jamie

Phase Result Opponent Result
R32 Won NESTOR Daniel / NIEMEYER Frederic (CAN) 4-6, 6-3, 6-4
R16 Lost CLEMENT Arnaud / LLODRA Michael (FRA) 1-6, 3-6

Nickname

Muzzah. (thesun.co.uk, 10 Apr 2012)

Hobbies

Karting, boxing, football. (murraysworld.com, 28 Aug 2010)

Occupation

Athlete

Language(s) spoken

English, Spanish

Coach

Ivan Lendl (CZE) (guardian.co.uk, 14 Apr 2012)

Position and style

Double-handed backhand (about.com, 30 Mar 2012)

Handedness

Right (andymurray.com, 18 Oct 2011)

Sporting relatives

He also grew up playing football and once was offered the opportunity to play with Glasgow Rangers. (independent.co.uk, 30 Jan 2010)

Other sports

His grandfather played football professionally in Scotland. (independent.co.uk, 30 Jan 2010)

Debut

2005 for Great Britain, against Israel (sportsvale.com, 21 Aug 2011)

Injuries

Hip and back injuries troubled him through the 2012 French Open. He declined to give any medical details. (bbc.co.uk, 06 Jun 2012, telegraph.co.uk, 23 May 2012)

He missed the 2011 Barcelona Open with an elbow injury. (bbc.co.uk, 24 Apr 2012)

He was born with a bipartite patella in his right knee, which means his knee cap was in two pieces. It has caused him pain since he was 16. (bbc.co.uk, 26 May 2010)

Additional information

Start of sporting career
He stared playing tennis at the age of three. (murraysworld.com, 28 Aug 2010)

Reason for taking up this sport
"My mum got me started, she played a lot and coached me when I was young. I wasn't forced to play tennis I was given the choice. I quit football when I was 12 to start taking tennis more seriously. It was an easy choice, tennis had already been a huge part of my life for nine years." (bbc.co.uk, 28 Jun 2006)

Ambitions
To win a gold medal at the 2012 Olympic Games in London. (clubcall.com, 04 Apr 2012)

Hero
Tim Henman. (dailymail.co.uk, 15 Nov 2011)

Most influential person in career
His mother. (independent.co.uk, 30 Jan 2010)

Sporting philosophy / motto
"To me, the people that are the best prepared and put the work in deserve to be there and to win. There's that saying: 'The harder I work, the luckier I get'. I think that's how it works. If you put everything in on the practice court and when you're training, then you get a little bit of luck along the way." (independent.ie, 29 Jun 2011)

Awards
In March 2005 he became the youngest player to represent Great Britain in Davis Cup competition [at the age of 17 years, 293 days] when he played doubles with David Sherwood against Israel. (sportsvale.com, 21 Aug 2011)

General
PASSIONATE PLAYER
His passion for the game has earned him a reputation for outbursts on court, but while he realises it is something he needs to improve on, he believes people deal with pressure differently. "I'm not perfect, I know that. But everybody is different. Roger Federer stays calm, then there's Wayne Rooney getting pissed off at his teammates or himself. Rooney is a completely different character, but still a fantastic sportsman. That is where I am. It just wouldn't make me feel good to bottle my emotions. Saying nothing and standing there makes me feel uncomfortable and flat." (dailymail.co.uk, 15 Nov 2011)

EARLY DAYS IN SPAIN
He chose to move to Barcelona after visiting the Sanchez-Casal Academy with his mother when he was 15. His brother, Jamie, had spent a miserable seven months at a Lawn Tennis Association academy in Cambridge, so he decided to move abroad after hearing from a teenage Rafa Nadal about the opportunities on offer in Spain. At the time he told his mother: "Rafa's out in the sun all day. He hardly goes to school and he's playing four and a half hours a day. I'm playing four and a half hours a week. It's not enough." (independent.co.uk, 30 Jan 2010)

DUNBLANE MASSACRE
In 1996 at the age of eight he survived the Dunblane massacre in Scotland when deranged gunman Thomas Hamilton killed 16 children and their teacher, before turning the gun on himself. He was on his way to the gymnasium at Dunblane Primary School when Hamilton burst into the school. A teacher ushered him and his classmates away and they hid in the headmaster's study as the massacre occurred. "Some of my friends' brothers and sisters were killed. I have only retained patch impressions of that day, such as being in a classroom singing songs. The weirdest thing was that we knew the guy [Hamilton]. He had been in my mum's car. It's obviously weird to think you had a murderer in your car, sitting next to your mum." (dailytelegraph.com.au, 31 Jan 2010, guardian.co.uk, 05 Jun 2008)

Previous Olympics

Beijing 2008


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