Jamie Murray

Jamie Murray

Jamie Murray at 2011 AEGON Championships
Country	Great Britain
Residence	London, England, UK
Born	(1986-02-13) 13 February 1986 (age 27) Dunblane, Scotland, UK
Height	1.90 m (6 ft 3 in)
Weight	84 kg (190 lb)
Turned pro	2004
Plays	Left-handed (2-handed backhand)
Prize money	$760,025
Singles
Career record	0–1 (in ATP (World) Tour and Grand Slam main draw matches, and in Davis Cup)
Career titles	0
Highest ranking	No. 834 (22 May 2006)
Doubles
Career record	129–139 (48.14% in ATP (World) Tour and Grand Slam main draw matches, and in Davis Cup)
Career titles	8
Highest ranking	No. 23 (10 October 2011)
Current ranking	No. 87 (18 March 2013)
Grand Slam Doubles results
Australian Open	2R (2011)
French Open	2R (2011)
Wimbledon	3R (2007, 2008)
US Open	2R (2007)
Mixed Doubles
Career record	26–14 (65%)
Career titles	1
Grand Slam Mixed Doubles results
Australian Open	2R (2008, 2009)
French Open	SF (2011)
Wimbledon	W (2007)
US Open	F (2008)
Last updated on: 29 October 2012.

Jamie Robert Murray (born 13 February 1986 in Dunblane) is a British tennis player who specialises in doubles and is Britain's no. 7 and Scotland's no. 2 doubles player. He is the older brother of Andy Murray. He won the Wimbledon mixed doubles title in 2007 with Jelena Janković. Murray had an early career partnership with Eric Butorac, winning three titles in 2007. Having split with Butorac at the end of 2007, Murray has since played with a large number of players: his six subsequent ATP finals since have been with different partners. He has also competed regularly alongside his brother Andy, with whom he has won two titles.

Biography [edit]

Early life [edit]

Jamie Murray was born to Will and Judy in Dunblane, Scotland. At the age of 11, Jamie finished runner up in the boys under 12 category at the prestigious Junior Orange Bowl.^[1] Murray was the junior world #2 when he was about 13 years old and was selected to be educated at The Leys School in Cambridge while being coached by national coaches.^[2] Jamie's younger brother Andy said of this experience that the LTA 'ruined' him when he went to Cambridge.^[3] In 2004 he partnered his brother to the semi final of the Junior US Open^[4]

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.^[5][6][7][8]

Personal life [edit]

In 2009 Jamie began dating Colombian MBA student Alejandra Gutierrez, in London. They married in Cromlix House near Dunblane on 28 October 2010 with brother Andy acting as best man. ^[9][10]

Tennis career [edit]

2006 [edit]

In 2006 he reached two ATP Tour doubles finals. In late July, Murray and the American player Eric Butorac reached the final of the Los Angeles tournament which they lost in straight sets to the world's top-ranked doubles team, the Bryan brothers. In September, partnering his younger brother, Murray reached the final of the Bangkok tournament, losing to the top Israeli doubles pairing Andy Ram and Jonathan Erlich (2–6 6–2 4–10).

2007 [edit]

In early February 2007, Murray and Butorac claimed their first doubles title^[11] in the AT&T Challenger tournament. They then won back to back doubles titles on the ATP Tour, at the SAP Open in San Jose^[12] and the Regions Morgan Keegan Championships at the Racquet Club of Memphis.^[13] These victories lifted Murray into the top 50 in the ATP doubles rankings for the first time.

On 20 March 2007 Murray received his first call-up to the Great Britain Davis Cup team, where he was picked for the doubles rubber on the Saturday of the tie against the Netherlands on 7 April. Jamie played alongside Greg Rusedski versus Robin Haase and Rogier Wassen. Murray and Rusedski beat the Dutch pairing 6–1 3–6 6–3 7–6 (7–5).

After winning his mixed doubles title with Jelena Janković at Wimbledon, Murray again reached a mixed doubles semi-final of the 2007 US Open aside Liezel Huber, coming within ten points of winning a place in the final.

2008 [edit]

Murray began 2008 with his new doubles partner Max Mirnyi, but the partnership struggled. Despite victory in the Delray Beach International Tennis Championships in February, they had failed to reach any other finals, winning just one of their first four matches as a pair and going out of eleven tournaments within the first two rounds, including at the 2008 Australian Open. Without Mirnyi, Murray has appeared to have had more success, reaching the semi-final of the Movistar Open with Nicolás Lapentti in January and the final of the Estoril Open with Kevin Ullyett in April.

Murray has also shown some interest in singles tennis. He competed in a singles qualifying match against Marcel Granollers in January and applied for a wildcard singles entry for Wimbledon. He was given a wildcard into the qualifying stages for the 2008 Artois Championships, but lost to Poland's Łukasz Kubot and was refused entry into the Wimbledon singles tournament. With Mirnyi he reached the final and semi-final of the Slazenger Open and the Artois Championships respectively, but failed to progress beyond the third round of Wimbledon.

Competing for Great Britain, he had a public fall out with brother Andy Murray, criticising him for dropping out of the squad for a Davis Cup match against Argentina; Jamie played in and lost the doubles match with Ross Hutchins. At the 2008 Summer Olympics the two Murrays competed together in the doubles tournament.^[14] After defeating Canadian pair Frédéric Niemeyer and Daniel Nestor 4–6, 6–3, 6–4 in the First Round, they then lost to French pair and 2007 Wimbledon Doubles Champions Arnaud Clément and Michaël Llodra, 6–1, 6–3.^[15]

Mixed doubles once again proved to be more successful for Murray in 2008. Competing with Liezel Huber he reached the final of the 2008 US Open, though they lost out to Cara Black and Leander Paes. He also reached the semi-finals at Wimbledon and the quarter-finals in the French Open.

Mirnyi and Murray had mediocre results, compiling a 15 for 17 record. They split in September 2008 and Murray formed a new partnership with Dušan Vemić of Serbia at the start of the 2009 season.^[16]

2009 [edit]

Jamie played the Brisbane and Sydney tournaments with Serbian Dušan Vemić but played the Australian Open with his old partner Eric Butorac as Vemić was unavailable. Butorac and Murray, who had not played together since the 2007 US Open, lost in the first round at Melbourne Park.^[17] Since splitting from Vemić at the end of February, Murray has played with several different partners, including Simon Aspelin, Jamie Delgado, Paul Hanley, Pavel Vízner, Gilles Müller and Jonathan Erlich. With Müller he reached the semi-final at Nottingham, his best result since the same tournament last year.^[18][19] Murray played with Vízner at the French Open and with Erlich at Wimbledon, but was defeated in the first round of both tournaments.^[20][21] However, he did reach the semi-finals of the mixed doubles at Wimbledon with his regular partner Liezel Huber.^[22] Dropping out of the world top one hundred, Murray returned to the Challenger circuit with new partner Jamie Delgado. Playing in these lower ranked tournaments, he won his first tournament of any sort in eighteen months at the Tirani Cup in August 2009, followed by wins at the TEAN International (with Jonathan Marray) and the Ljubljana Open. He was semi-finalist in the Challenger event in Orléans, France.^[23] He topped off the year with a win in Astana, Kazakhstan again partnering Jonathan Marray.^[23]

2010 [edit]

Jamie started the 2010 year as a semi-finalist in the ATP Challenger event in São Paulo, Brazil. His first win of the year came in Salinas, Ecuador with Marray again. He lost with Marray in another Challenger event in Bucaramanga, Colombia on clay in the quarter-finals. He also competed in the mixed doubles at Wimbledon, this time alongside Laura Robson, but lost in the first round. Playing in his first tournament since getting married, Murray played with his brother Andy Murray. The pair had a great week in Valencia and won the tournament. This was Jamie's first win on the top level of the tour for over two years and the first time that he has won a doubles title with his brother.^[24][25] Murray ended the season with another Challenger win, in Bratislava.

2011 [edit]

Murray began 2011 playing with Xavier Malisse. Though the pair lost in their first ATP event at Chennai, Murray won his first match at a Grand Slam since Wimbledon 2008 as they progressed to the second round of the Australian Open. Murray followed this up with two semifinal appearances, partnering Alexander Peya at the SA Open and his brother Andy at Rotterdam. These successes saw Murray climb back into the world top 50. At the French Open, Murray and his partner Chris Guccione were eliminated in the second round of the men's doubles by the top-seeded Bryan Brothers, but he progressed to the semifinals of the mixed doubles with Nadia Petrova. In August, he reached the semifinals of the Winston–Salem Open but lost in straight sets to Christopher Kas and Alexander Peya. He partnered Santiago González. At the US Open, he and partner González went out in the first round in straight sets to Jürgen Melzer and Philipp Petzschner, who went on to win the tournament. He next played at the Open de Moselle, where he partnered André Sá, going on to win the tournament by defeating Lukáš Dlouhý and Marcelo Melo in the final, winning in straight sets. Two weeks later, he won his second title of the year partnering with brother Andy Murray at the Rakuten Japan Open Tennis Championships. They defeated František Čermák and Filip Polášek. In doing so, he rose to a career-high doubles ranking of no. 23 in the world.

2012 [edit]

Murray began 2012 playing at the Brisbane International partnering Paul Hanley for the first time. They made it into the second round, but lost in straight sets. At the Australian Open the paired lost in the first round in three sets to Julian Knowle and Michael Kohlmann 6–7^(2–7), 6–4, 6–7^(5–7). Murray got to his first final of the season again partnering Paul Hanley at the Open Sud de France, but lost the final to Nicolas Mahut and Édouard Roger-Vasselin in straight sets 6–7^(4–7), 4–6. At the French Open Murray this time partnering Carsten Ball lost in the first round to Yen-Hsun Lu and Go Soeda in three sets 6–7^(5–7), 6–4, 3–6. At Wimbledon Murray re-partnered with longtime partner Eric Butorac for the first time in five years. They went out in the early stages in the second round in straight sets to Arnaud Clément and Michaël Llodra 3–6, 5–7, 4–6. Having lost in the first round at the German Open Murray will next compete at the London 2012 Summer Olympics in the doubles event partnering Brother Andy, who also competing in the singles event.^[26] Jamie described partnering his brother at the London Olympics as a dream come true. Colin Fleming and Ross Hutchins will also compete together to represent Great Britain in the doubles event. Unfortunately the dream was not long lived as they lost in the first round to Austria (Melzer & Peya) in a very close match in three sets 7–5, 6–7^(6–8), 5–7. At the 2012 US Open Murray had another disappointing campaign as he and partner André Sá lost in the first round to fifteenth seeds Alexander Peya and Bruno Soares in straight sets 2–6, 2–6.

Major tournaments [edit]

Grand Slams [edit]

Mixed Doubles: 2 (1–1) [edit]

Outcome	Year	Championship	Surface	Partner	Opponents in the final	Score in the final
Winner	2007	Wimbledon	Grass	Jelena Janković	Alicia Molik Jonas Björkman	6–4, 3–6, 6–1
Runner-up	2008	US Open	Hard (o)	Liezel Huber	Cara Black Leander Paes	6–7(6–8), 4–6

ATP career finals [edit]

Doubles: 13 (8–5) [edit]

Outcome	Num	Date	Tournament	Surface	Partner	Opponents	Score
Runner-up	1.	30 July 2006	Los Angeles, United States	Hard	Eric Butorac	Bob Bryan Mike Bryan	2–6, 4–6
Runner-up	2.	1 October 2006	Bangkok, Thailand	Hard (i)	Andy Murray	Jonathan Erlich Andy Ram	2–6, 6–2, [4–10]
Winner	1.	18 February 2007	San Jose, United States	Hard (i)	Eric Butorac	Chris Haggard Rainer Schüttler	7–5, 7–6(8–6)
Winner	2.	25 February 2007	Memphis, United States	Hard (i)	Eric Butorac	Jürgen Melzer Julian Knowle	7–5, 6–3
Winner	3.	23 June 2007	Nottingham, United Kingdom	Grass	Eric Butorac	Joshua Goodall Ross Hutchins	4–6, 6–3, [10–5]
Winner	4.	17 February 2008	Delray Beach, United States	Hard	Max Mirnyi	Bob Bryan Mike Bryan	6–4, 3–6, [10–6]
Runner-up	3.	21 April 2008	Estoril, Portugal	Clay	Kevin Ullyett	Jeff Coetzee Wesley Moodie	2–6, 6–4, [8–10]
Runner-up	4.	16 June 2008	Nottingham, United Kingdom	Grass	Jeff Coetzee	Bruno Soares Kevin Ullyett	2–6, 6–7(5–7)
Winner	5.	7 November 2010	Valencia, Spain	Hard (i)	Andy Murray	Mahesh Bhupathi Max Mirnyi	7–6(10–8), 5–7, [10–7]
Winner	6.	25 September 2011	Metz, France	Hard (i)	André Sá	Lukáš Dlouhý Marcelo Melo	6–4, 7–6(9–7)
Winner	7.	9 October 2011	Tokyo, Japan	Hard	Andy Murray	František Čermák Filip Polášek	6–1, 6–4
Runner-up	5.	5 February 2012	Montpellier, France	Hard (i)	Paul Hanley	Nicolas Mahut Édouard Roger-Vasselin	4–6, 6–7(4–7)
Winner	8.	13 April 2013	Houston, United States	Clay	John Peers	Bob Bryan Mike Bryan	1–6, 7–6(7–3), [12–10]

Doubles career summary [edit]

Men's doubles [edit]

Key

Won tournament, or reached Final, Semifinal, Quarterfinal, Round 4, 3, 2, 1; competed at a Round Robin stage or lost in Qualification Round 3, 2, Round 1; absent from a tournament or participated in a team event; played in a Davis Cup Zonal Group (with its number indication) or Play-off; won a bronze, silver (F or S) or gold medal at the Olympics, the former of which has, from 1908–1924 and 1996–present, been awarded to the winner of a play-off match between losing semifinalists. The last two are for a Masters Series/1000 tournament that was relegated (Not a Masters Series) or a tournament that was Not Held in a given year. To avoid confusion and double counting, these charts are updated either at the conclusion of (not during) a tournament, or when the player's participation in the tournament has ended. To prevent confusion and double counting, information in this table is updated only once a tournament or the player's participation in the tournament has concluded.

Mixed doubles [edit]

References [edit]

External links [edit]

Wikimedia Commons has media related to: Jamie Murray

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v t e Association of Tennis Professionals: Top ten British male doubles tennis players as of 8 April 2013 Jonathan Marray (16 ) Colin Fleming (28 ) Dominic Inglot (39 ) Ross Hutchins (43 ) Ken Skupski (62 ) Jamie Delgado (78 4) Jamie Murray (84 ) Sean Thornley (203 6) Andy Murray (208 1) David Rice (236 15)