Murray will likely be remembered for his razor-sharp volleying expertise and the preposterous angles he conjured on the internet. His returns had been typically unorthodox and he was keen on a lobbed service return to unsettle opponents.
Alongside his triumphs, Murray has been a staunch defender of doubles gamers and ceaselessly demanded they be proven extra respect.
“Doubles has its place in the game – it’s not the golden ticket that singles is, but it’s undervalued by the tour,” Murray informed BBC Sport.
“As these events go longer and longer they need content, and doubles supports that.”
Murray stated he was proud to have represented his hometown of Dunblane and the nation of Scotland on the highest stage.
“There is no history of tennis and no environment of tennis [in Scotland],” Murray informed BBC Sport.
“I’d imagine the odds were against us from the start but we were able to make some good things happen.”
His mom Judy thought Jamie had the higher hand-eye co-ordination of her sons when younger. Jamie and Andy briefly grew to become rivals as tennis gamers – and likewise whereas wrestling.
Judy as soon as recalled: “Andy’s favourite [wrestler] was The Rock and Jamie’s was Stone Cold Steve Austin, and they used to create these bouts that they saw on the television. They used to wrestle each other on the duvet and thump each other with pillows, and create these belts and make up their own rules and scoring systems.”
Jamie is 15 months older than Andy, and as his early dominance on the tennis court docket began to fade Andy says he fairly actually bore the brunt.
“We were coming back from Solihull in the minibus and I’d beaten Jamie in the final, I think, of the under-12s, so basically I was winding him up about that and my hand was on the hand rest,” he stated in 2015.
“We were sitting next to each other and he just basically punched me on the hand – I lost my fingernail and I’ve still got the scars to show for it.”
Despite some defeats in opposition to Andy, Jamie was nonetheless very a lot on observe for knowledgeable singles profession till a detrimental expertise at an LTA coaching faculty in Cambridge in his very early teenagers.
He struggled with residing away from house and the elite coaching surroundings, and regardless that he has by no means sought in charge the LTA, his forehand suffered and he has stated he was by no means fairly the identical participant once more.
