Jamie Murray
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| Nickname(s) | Stretch | |
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| Country | Great Britain | |
| Residence | Dunblane, Scotland | |
| Date of birth | 13 February 1986 | |
| Place of birth | Dunblane, Scotland | |
| Height | 1.90 m (6 ft 3 in) | |
| Weight | 84 kg (190 lb) | |
| Turned pro | 2004 | |
| Plays | Left-handed; | |
| Career prize money | $350,373 | |
| Singles | ||
| Career record | 0–1 | |
| Career titles | 0 | |
| Highest ranking | 834 (22 May 2006) | |
| Doubles | ||
| Career record | 71–71 | |
| Career titles | 4 | |
| Highest ranking | 27 (2 February 2009) | |
| Grand Slam Doubles results | ||
| Australian Open | 1R (2007, 2008, 2009) | |
| French Open | 1R (2007, 2008, 2009) | |
| Wimbledon | 3R (2007, 2008) | |
| US Open | 2R (2007) | |
| Mixed Doubles | ||
| Career record | ||
| Career titles | 1 | |
| Grand Slam mixed doubles results | ||
| Australian Open | 2R (2008) | |
| French Open | QF (2008) | |
| Wimbledon | W (2007) | |
| US Open | F (2008) | |
| Last updated on: 6 June 2009. | ||
James "Jamie" Murray (born 13 February 1986 in Dunblane) is a Scottish tennis player who specialises in doubles. He is the older brother of Andy Murray
Along with Jelena Janković, he won the mixed doubles final of Wimbledon in 2007
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[edit] Early life
Jamie Murray was born to Willie and Judy in Dunblane, Scotland. He is the older brother of Andy Murray, world number four. Jamie Murray was selected to be educated at The Leys School while being coached by national coaches.[1]
[edit] Career
[edit] 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).
[edit] 2007
In early February 2007, Murray and Butorac claimed their first doubles title[2] 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[3] and the Regions Morgan Keegan Championships at the Racquet Club of Memphis.[4] 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 Jankovic 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.
[edit] 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.[5] After defeating Canadian pair Frederic 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.[6]
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. [7]
[edit] 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. [8] 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.[9][10] Murray played with Vízner at the French Open and with Erlich at Wimbledon, but was defeated in the first round of both tournaments.[11][12] However, he did reach the semi-finals of the mixed doubles at Wimbledon with his regular partner Liezel Huber.[13] 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.
[edit] 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; "He's like my brother and you can't say that about many guys," Huber said.[citation needed]
- He officially holds third place in Facebook friends ranking amongst most popular tennis players on the ATP Tour. [14]
- Jamie dated Karen Paterson, the now retired Scottish tennis player, Spanish Jane Nemykina, Laura Jane Fleming (sister of one of his best friends Colin Fleming), and Alona Bondarenko.[15]
[edit] Major finals
[edit] Grand Slam finals
[edit] Mixed doubles: 2 (1-1)
| 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 |  Liezel Huber |
 Cara Black Leander Paes |
7–6, 6–4 |
[edit] Doubles finals
[edit] Men's Doubles
[edit] Wins (8)
| Legend |
| Grand Slam (0) |
| Tennis Masters Series (0) |
| ATP Tour (4) |
| Challengers (4) |
| Num | Date | Tournament | Surface | Partner | Opponents in the final | Score |
| 1. | 11 February 2007 | Dallas, United States | Hard | Eric Butorac |
Rajeev Ram Bobby Reynolds |
6–4, 6–7 (4-7), [10-7] |
| 2. | 18 February 2007 | San Jose, United States | Hard | Eric Butorac |
 Chris Haggard Rainer Schüttler |
7–5, 7–6 (8-6) |
| 3. | 25 February 2007 | Memphis, United States | Hard | Eric Butorac |
 Jürgen Melzer Julian Knowle |
7–5, 6–3 |
| 4. | 23 June 2007 | Nottingham, UK | Grass | Eric Butorac |
 Joshua Goodall Ross Hutchins |
4–6, 6–3, [10–5] |
| 5. | 17 February 2008 | Delray Beach, Florida, U.S. | Hard |  Max Mirnyi |
Bob Bryan Mike Bryan |
6–4, 3–6, [10–6] |
| 6. | 23 August 2009 | Trani, Italy | Clay | Jamie Delgado |
Simon Greul Alessandro Motti |
3–6, 6–4, [12-10] |
| 7. | 13 September 2009 | Alphen, Netherlands | Clay | Jonathan Marray |
 Sergei Bubka, Jr. Sergey Stakhovsky |
6–1, 6–4 |
| 8. | 27 September 2009 | Ljubljana, Slovenia | Clay | Jamie Delgado |
 Stephane Robert Simone Vagnozzi |
6-3, 6-3 |
[edit] Runners-up (4)
| Num | Date | Tournament | Surface | Partner | Opponents in the final | Score |
| 1. | 30 July 2006 | Los Angeles, United States | Hard | Eric Butorac |
Bob Bryan Mike Bryan |
6–2, 6–4 |
| 2. | 1 October 2006 | Bangkok, Thailand | Hard | Andy Murray |
 Jonathan Erlich Andy Ram |
6–2, 2–6, [10-4] |
| 3. | 21 April 2008 | Estoril, Portugal | Clay | Kevin Ullyett |
Jeff Coetzee Wesley Moodie |
6–2, 4–6, [10–8] |
| 4. | 16 June 2008 | Nottingham, UK | Grass (i) | Jeff Coetzee |
 Bruno Soares Kevin Ullyett |
6–2, 7–6 (7-5) |
[edit] Doubles Career Summary
[edit] Men's Doubles
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 | Career |
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| Australian Open | A | 1R | 1R | 1R | 0-3 |
| French Open | A | 1R | 1R | 1R | 0-3 |
| Wimbledon | 1R | 3R | 3R | 1R | 4-4 |
| US Open | A | 2R | 1R | A | 1-2 |
| Win-Loss | 0–1 | 3–4 | 2-4 | 0-3 | 5–12 |
| Tennis Masters Cup | A | A | A | 0–0 | |
| Indian Wells Masters | A | 2R | SF | 1R | 4-3 |
| Miami Masters | A | 1R | 1R | 1R | 0-3 |
| Monte Carlo Masters | A | 1R | 1R | A | 0-2 |
| Rome Masters | A | A | 2R | 1R | 1-2 |
| Madrid Masters | A | 2R | 1R | A | 1-2 |
| Canada Masters | A | 1R | 2R | A | 1-2 |
| Cincinnati Masters | A | 2R | QF | A | 3-2 |
| Shanghai Masters | NM1 | 0 – 0 | |||
| Paris Masters | A | 1R | 2R | 1-2 | |
| Hamburg Masters | A | A | 1R | NM1 | 0-1 |
| ATP Final Appearances | 2 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 8 |
| ATP Titles | 0 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 4 |
| Year End Ranking | 77 | 32 | 28 | n/a | |
To help interpret the performance table, the legend below explains what each abbreviation and color coded box represents in the performance timeline.
| Terms to know | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| SR | the ratio of the number of singles tournaments won to the number of those tournaments played |
W-L | player's Win-Loss record |
| Performance Table Legend | |||
| NH | tournament not held in that calendar year | A | did not participate in the tournament |
| LQ | lost in qualifying draw | #R | lost in the early rounds of the tournament (RR = round robin) |
| QF | advanced to but not past the quarterfinals | SF | advanced to but not past the semifinals |
| F | advanced to the final, tournament runner-up | W | won the tournament |
| NM1 | means an event that was not an ATP Masters 1000 tournament. | |||
[edit] Mixed Doubles
| Tournament | 2006 | 2007 | 2008 | 2009 | Career |
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| Australian Open | A | A | 2R | 2R | 2-2 |
| French Open | A | A | QF | A | 2-1 |
| Wimbledon | A | W | SF | SF | 10-1 |
| US Open | A | SF | F | A | 7-2 |
| Win-Loss | 0–0 | 9-1 | 11-4 | 1-1 | 21-6 |
[edit] References
- ^ "Tennis". The Leys. http://www.theleys.cambs.sch.uk/extracurricular/sport/tennis.html. Retrieved 2008-10-09.
- ^ [1]: "Jamie Murray wins doubles title."
- ^ [2]: "Wins first ATP tour title (last paragraph)."
- ^ Jamie Murray wins Memphis doubles BBC Sport
- ^ http://sports.espn.go.com/oly/summer08/results?discId=42
- ^ http://sports.espn.go.com/oly/summer08/results?eventId=215
- ^ Association of Tennis Professionals (2008-09-18). "Jamie Murray Splits With Mirnyi". http://www.atptennis.com/1/en/2008news/murray_mirnyisplit.asp. Retrieved 2008-08-20.
- ^ http://www.jamiemurray.org/news/article/283
- ^ The Independent: Murray's feats of clay earn him major respect
- ^ ATP World Tour - Players
- ^ [3]
- ^ [4]
- ^ [5]
- ^ http://www.tennishead.net/on-tour/features/2008-07-31/pros-that-poke-facebook-world rankings/
- ^ http://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/sport/tennis-news/2208/09/04/liezel-huber-warns-rivals-off-mixed-doubles-partner-jamie-murray-86908-20723293/
[edit] External links
- Official Site
- Jamie Murray at the Association of Tennis Professionals
- Jamie Murray at the International Tennis Federation
- Jamie Murray at Davis Cup
- Guardian Blog
