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Andy Murray Profile |
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Birth Date: May 15, 1987
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Birth Place: Glasgow, Scotland, UK
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Birth Name: Andrew Murray
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Height: 6'3"
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Biography |
Andy Murray is a Scottish professional tennis player. He is
ranked World No. 4, having previously held the No. 2 ranking
position for two weeks from August 17, 2009 to August 31,
2009, making him the highest-ranked British player since
Fred Perry. Murray achieved a top 10 ranking by the
Association of Tennis Professionals for the first time on
April 16, 2007. In 2008, he finished runner-up to Roger
Federer at the US Open.
Murray is most proficient on a fast surface (such as hard
courts), although he has worked hard since 2008 on improving
his clay court game. Murray works with a team of fitness
experts, along with Miles Maclagan who is his main coach.
Andy Murray was born to Willie and Judy in Glasgow,
Scotland. His maternal grandfather, Roy Erskine, was a
professional footballer who played reserve team matches for
Hibernian and in the Scottish Football League for Stirling
Albion and Cowdenbeath. His brother, Jamie, is also a
professional tennis player, playing on the doubles circuit.
Murray was born with a bipartite patella, where the kneecap
remains as two separate bones instead of fusing together in
early childhood.
Murray attended Dunblane Primary School, where he
experienced the Dunblane Massacre of 1996. Thomas Hamilton
killed 17 people, mostly children who were in a younger age
group than Murray, before turning one of his four guns on
himself. Murray himself took cover in a classroom. Murray
says he was too young to understand what was happening and
is reluctant to talk about it in interviews, but in his
autobiography Hitting Back he says that he attended a youth
group run by Hamilton, and that his mother gave him rides in
her car. Murray went on to attend Dunblane High School.
Following the separation of his parents when he was aged
nine, Murray and his brother Jamie lived with their father.
Murray was in a four-year relationship with Kim Sears, which
ended in 2009. The couple lived together in the county of
Surrey until the split-up. The two first met at the U.S.
Open in September 2005.
Murray has stated his tennis idol is Andre Agassi.
Murray supports two professional football teams. As a result
of his grandfather playing for Hibernian, Murray supports
them as well as Wolverhampton Wanderers due to the influence
of Great Britain's Davis Cup Captain John Lloyd (a noted
Wolves fan himself). Murray is often seen wearing the Wolves
shirt that was presented to him by Lloyd. |
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