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==Personal life==
==Personal life==
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He has a good working relationship with [[Liezel Huber]], who he has partnered in Mixed Doubles since the 2007 US Open. In October 2010, Murray married Alejandra Gutierrez in Dunblane with brother, Andy, being his best man.
He has a good working relationship with [[Liezel Huber]], who he has partnered in Mixed Doubles since the 2007 US Open. In October 2010, Murray married Alejandra Gutierrez in Dunblane with brother, Andy, being his best man.


==Career==
==Career==

Revision as of 14:34, 28 July 2011

For other uses, see James Murray.
Jamie Murray
Jamie Murray at 2011 AEGON Championships
Country (sports)United Kingdom Great Britain
ResidenceDunblane, Scotland, United Kingdom
Born (1986-02-13) 13 February 1986 (age 38)
Dunblane, Scotland
Height1.90 m (6 ft 3 in)
Turned pro2004
PlaysLeft-handed
Prize money$548,403
Singles
Career record0–1
Career titles0
Highest ranking834 (22 May 2006)
Doubles
Career record92–99
Career titles5
Highest ranking27 (2 February 2009)
Current ranking43 (4 July 2011)
Grand Slam doubles results
Australian Open2R (2011)
French Open2R (2011)
Wimbledon3R (2007, 2008)
US Open2R (2007)
Mixed doubles
Career titles1
Grand Slam mixed doubles results
Australian Open2R (2008, 2009)
French OpenSF (2011)
WimbledonW (2007)
US OpenF (2008)
Last updated on: 23 May 2011.

Jamie Robert Murray (born 13 February 1986 in Dunblane) is a British tennis player from Scotland who specialises in doubles. He is the older brother of Andy Murray. He won the Wimbledon mixed doubles title in 2007 with Jelena Janković.

Early life

Jamie Murray was born to Willie 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 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

He has a good working relationship with Liezel Huber, who he has partnered in Mixed Doubles since the 2007 US Open. In October 2010, Murray married Alejandra Gutierrez,Hard Rock waitress,[9] in Dunblane with brother, Andy, being his best man.

Career

2006

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

In early February 2007, Murray and Butorac claimed their first doubles title[10] 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[11] and the Regions Morgan Keegan Championships at the Racquet Club of Memphis.[12] 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

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.[13] 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.[14]

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.[15]

2009

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.[16] 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.[17][18] Murray played with Vízner at the French Open and with Erlich at Wimbledon, but was defeated in the first round of both tournaments.[19][20] However, he did reach the semi-finals of the mixed doubles at Wimbledon with his regular partner Liezel Huber.[21] 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.[22] He topped off the year with a win in Astana, Kazakhstan again partnering Jonathan Marray.[22]

2010

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.[23][24] Murray ended the season with another Challenger win, in Bratislava.

2011

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 semi-final 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 number one seeded Bryan Brothers, but he has progressed to the semi-final of the mixed doubles with Nadia Petrova.

Major finals

Grand Slam finals

Mixed doubles: 2 (1–1)

Outcome Year Championship Surface Partner Opponents in the final Score in the final
Winner 2007 Wimbledon Grass Serbia Jelena Janković Australia Alicia Molik
Sweden Jonas Björkman		 6–4, 3–6, 6–1
Runner-up 2008 US Open Hard United States Liezel Huber Zimbabwe Cara Black
India Leander Paes		 7–6, 6–4

Doubles finals

Wins (5)

Legend
Grand Slam (0)
Tennis Masters Series (0)
ATP Tour (5)
Num Date Tournament Surface Partner Opponents in the final Score
1. 18 February 2007 San Jose, United States Hard United States Eric Butorac South Africa Chris Haggard
Germany Rainer Schüttler 		7–5, 7–6 (8–6)
2. 25 February 2007 Memphis, United States Hard United States Eric Butorac Austria Jürgen Melzer
Austria Julian Knowle 		7–5, 6–3
3. 23 June 2007 Nottingham, UK Grass United States Eric Butorac United Kingdom Joshua Goodall
United Kingdom Ross Hutchins 		4–6, 6–3, [10–5]
4. 17 February 2008 Delray Beach, Florida, U.S. Hard Belarus Max Mirnyi United States Bob Bryan
United States Mike Bryan 		6–4, 3–6, [10–6]
5. 7 November 2010 Valencia, Spain Hard (i) United Kingdom Andy Murray India Mahesh Bhupathi
Belarus Max Mirnyi 		7–6(10–8), 5–7, [10–7]

Runners-up (4)

Num Date Tournament Surface Partner Opponents in the final Score
1. 30 July 2006 United States Los Angeles Hard (o) United States Eric Butorac United States Bob Bryan
United States Mike Bryan 		6–2, 6–4
2. 1 October 2006 Thailand Bangkok Hard (i) United Kingdom Andy Murray Israel Jonathan Erlich
Israel Andy Ram 		6–2, 2–6, [10–4]
3. 21 April 2008 Portugal Estoril Clay Zimbabwe Kevin Ullyett South Africa Jeff Coetzee
South Africa Wesley Moodie 		6–2, 4–6, [10–8]
4. 16 June 2008 United Kingdom Nottingham Grass (i) South Africa Jeff Coetzee Brazil Bruno Soares
Zimbabwe Kevin Ullyett 		6–2, 7–6 (7–5)

Doubles Career summary

Men's Doubles

Key
W  F  SF QF #R RR Q# P# DNQ A Z# PO G S B NMS NTI P NH
(W) winner; (F) finalist; (SF) semifinalist; (QF) quarterfinalist; (#R) rounds 4, 3, 2, 1; (RR) round-robin stage; (Q#) qualification round; (P#) preliminary round; (DNQ) did not qualify; (A) absent; (Z#) Davis/Fed Cup Zonal Group (with number indication) or (PO) play-off; (G) gold, (S) silver or (B) bronze Olympic/Paralympic medal; (NMS) not a Masters tournament; (NTI) not a Tier I tournament; (P) postponed; (NH) not held; (SR) strike rate (events won / competed); (W–L) win–loss record.
To avoid confusion and double counting, these charts are updated at the conclusion of a tournament or when the player's participation 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.

Tournament 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 Career
Australian Open A 1R 1R 1R A 2R 1–5
French Open A 1R 1R 1R 1R 2R 1–5
Wimbledon 1R 3R 3R 1R 1R 2R 4–5
US Open A 2R 1R A A 1–2
Win-Loss 0–1 3–4 2–4 0–3 0–2 2–2 7–17
Indian Wells Masters A 2R SF 1R A QF 6–4
Miami Masters A 1R 1R 1R A 2R 1–3
Monte Carlo Masters A 1R 1R A A A 0–2
Rome Masters A A 2R 1R A 1R 1–3
Madrid Masters A 2R 1R A A 1R 1–3
Canada Masters A 1R 2R A A 1–2
Cincinnati Masters A 2R QF A A 3–2
Shanghai Masters NM1 A A 0–0
Paris Masters A 1R 2R A A 1–2
Hamburg Masters A A 1R NM1 0–1
ATP Final Appearances 2 3 3 0 1 9
ATP Titles 0 3 1 0 1 5
Year End Ranking 77 32 28 105 57 n/a

Mixed Doubles

Tournament 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 Career
Australian Open A A 2R 2R A 1R 2–3
French Open A A QF A A SF 5–2
Wimbledon A W SF SF 1R 2R 15–4
US Open A SF F A A 7–2
Win-Loss 0–0 9–1 11–4 5–2 0–1 3–2 28–10

References

  1. ^ "1998 Junior Orange Bowl Results". Collage and Junior Tennis. 23 December 1998. Retrieved 6 May 2010.
  2. ^ "Tennis". The Leys. Retrieved 2008-10-09.
  3. ^ "'LTA ruined my brother'". London: Daily Telegraph. 28 November 2005. Retrieved 6 May 2010.
  4. ^ "Murray Wins US Junior Crown". BBC Sport. 12 September 2004. Retrieved 6 May 2010.
  5. ^ Dunblane tastes regret along with its new favourite son, The Guardian, 26 June 2006
  6. ^ MURRAY, Andy (GBR), International Tennis Federation profile.
  7. ^ STIRLING ALBION : 1947/48 – 2008/09, Post War English & Scottish Football League A – Z Player's Database.
  8. ^ COWDENBEATH : 1946/47 – 2008/09, Post War English & Scottish Football League A – Z Player's Database.
  9. ^ [1]
  10. ^ [2]: "Jamie Murray wins doubles title."
  11. ^ [3]: "Wins first ATP tour title (last paragraph)."
  12. ^ Jamie Murray wins Memphis doubles BBC Sport
  13. ^ http://sports.espn.go.com/oly/summer08/results?discId=42
  14. ^ http://sports.espn.go.com/oly/summer08/results?eventId=215
  15. ^ Association of Tennis Professionals (2008-09-18). "Jamie Murray Splits With Mirnyi". Retrieved 2008-08-20. [dead link]
  16. ^ http://www.jamiemurray.org/news/article/283
  17. ^ The Independent: Murray's feats of clay earn him major respect
  18. ^ ATP World Tour – Players
  19. ^ "Jamie Murray loses in French Open doubles first round". The Guardian. London. 28 May 2009. Retrieved 5 May 2010.
  20. ^ [4]
  21. ^ Cambers, Simon (3 July 2009). "Jamie Murray follows Andy out of Wimbledon with mixed doubles defeat". The Guardian. London. Retrieved 5 May 2010.
  22. ^ a b [5]
  23. ^ http://www.atpworldtour.com/News/Tennis/2010/11/44/Doubles-Sunday-Murrays-Win-First-Team-Title-In-Valencia.aspx
  24. ^ "Murray brothers seize first title". BBC News. 7 November 2010.

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