A left-hander, Murray additionally performed a significant half in Britain’s Davis Cup success, enjoying brilliantly alongside his brother within the quarter-final with France on the Queen’s Club in a five-set, four-hour semi-final match with Australia, earlier than seeing off the Belgian pair as Britain gained the title in Ghent.
Murray shall be remembered for his razor-sharp volleying abilities and the preposterous angles he conjured on the web. His returns had been usually unorthodox and he was keen on a lobbed service return to unsettle opponents.
His mom Judy thought Jamie had the higher hand-eye co-ordination of her sons when younger. Jamie and Andy briefly turned rivals as tennis gamers – and in addition whereas wrestling on the quilt.
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 courtroom 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 advised BBC Sport 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 his brother, Jamie was nonetheless very a lot on observe for an expert singles profession till a unfavorable expertise at an LTA coaching faculty in Cambridge in his very early teenagers.
He struggled with residing away from residence and the elite coaching setting, and although he has by no means sought in charge the LTA, his forehand suffered and he has mentioned he was by no means fairly the identical participant once more.
