Jamie Murray at 2011 AEGON Championships |
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| Country | Great Britain |
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| Residence | Dunblane, Scotland, United Kingdom |
| Born | 13 February 1986 Dunblane, Scotland |
| Height | 1.90 m (6 ft 3 in) |
| Turned pro | 2004 |
| Plays | Left-handed |
| Career prize money | $652,853 |
| Singles | |
| Career record | 0–1 |
| Career titles | 0 |
| Highest ranking | 834 (22 May 2006) |
| Doubles | |
| Career record | 108–109 |
| Career titles | 7 |
| Highest ranking | No. 23 (10 October 2011) |
| Current ranking | No. 23 (10 October 2011) |
| Grand Slam Doubles results | |
| Australian Open | 2R (2011) |
| French Open | 2R (2011) |
| Wimbledon | 3R (2007, 2008) |
| US Open | 2R (2007) |
| Mixed Doubles | |
| 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: 10 October 2011. | |
Jamie Robert Murray (born 13 February 1986 in Dunblane) is a British tennis player from Scotland who specialises in doubles and is Britain's number 1 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. As of October 2011 he was still ranked within the World Top 25 doubles players on the ATP Tour.
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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]
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 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).
In early February 2007, Murray and Butorac claimed their first doubles title[9] 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[10] and the Regions Morgan Keegan Championships at the Racquet Club of Memphis.[11] 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.
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.[12] 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.[13]
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.[14]
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.[15] 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.[16][17] Murray played with Vízner at the French Open and with Erlich at Wimbledon, but was defeated in the first round of both tournaments.[18][19] However, he did reach the semi-finals of the mixed doubles at Wimbledon with his regular partner Liezel Huber.[20] 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.[21] He topped off the year with a win in Astana, Kazakhstan again partnering Jonathan Marray.[21]
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.[22][23] Murray ended the season with another Challenger win, in Bratislava.
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. In August he reached the semi-finals of the Winston–Salem Open he lost in straight sets to Christopher Kas and Alexander Peya 7-6, 6-3, He partnered Santiago González. At the US Open he and partner Santiago González went out in the first round in straight sets to Jurgen Melzer and Philipp Petzschner who went on to win the US Open. He next played at the Open de Moselle, where he partnered Andre Sa, going on to win the tournament defeating Lukáš Dlouhý and Marcelo Melo in the final, winning in straight sets. Two weeks later he then 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 6-1, 6-4. In doing so this rose his doubles ranking to a career high of 23rd in the world.
| 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 |
6–7, 4–6 |
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| Outcome | Num | Date | Tournament | Surface | Partner | Opponents in the final | Score |
| Runner-up | 1. | 30 July 2006 | Los Angeles, United States | Hard (o) | 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 | Eric Butorac | Chris Haggard Rainer Schüttler |
7–5, 7–6(8–6) |
| Winner | 2. | 25 February 2007 | Memphis, United States | Hard | 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, Florida, 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 (i) | 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) | Andre Sa | Lukáš Dlouhý Marcelo Melo |
6–4, 7–6(9–7) |
| Winner | 7. | 9 October 2011 | Tokyo, Japan | Hard (o) | Andy Murray | František Čermák Filip Polášek |
6–1, 6–4 |
| W | F | SF | QF | #R | RR | Q# | A | P | Z# | PO | SF-B | F | NMS |
Won tournament, or reached Final, Semifinal, Quarterfinal, Round 4, 3, 2, 1, played in Round Robin or lost in Qualification Round 3, Round 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 or silver match at the Olympics. The last is for a Masters Series/1000 tournament that was relegated (Not a Masters Series).
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 |
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| 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 | QF | 3–3 |
| Cincinnati Masters | A | 2R | QF | A | A | A | 3–2 |
| Shanghai Masters | NM1 | A | A | A | 0–0 | ||
| Paris Masters | A | 1R | 2R | A | A | 2R | 2–3 |
| Hamburg Masters | A | A | 1R | NM1 | 0–1 | ||
| ATP Final Appearances | 2 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 11 |
| ATP Titles | 0 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 7 |
| Year End Ranking | 77 | 32 | 28 | 105 | 57 | 35 | n/a |
| Tournament | 2006 | 2007 | 2008 | 2009 | 2010 | 2011 | Career |
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| 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 | 1R | 7–3 |
| Win-Loss | 0–0 | 9–1 | 11–4 | 5–2 | 0–1 | 4–4 | 29–12 |
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