Jamie Murray (tennis)

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Jamie Murray

Country	United Kingdom  Scotland[1]
Residence	Dunblane, Scotland
Date of birth	February 13, 1986 (1986-02-13) (age 22)
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	$238,674
Singles
Career record:	0–1
Career titles:	0
Highest ranking:	834 (May 22, 2006)
Grand Slam results
Australian Open	-
French Open	-
Wimbledon	-
US Open	-
Doubles
Career record:	52 - 41
Career titles:	4
Highest ranking:	28 (August 27, 2007)
Infobox last updated on: April 21, 2008.

Jamie Murray (born James Murray, 13 February 1986 in Dunblane) is a British tennis player. Jamie plays in doubles, and is currently the UK number one in the ATP doubles rankings. He is the older brother of Andy Murray, the highest ranking singles player in the UK.

His nickname is 'Stretch' because of his long arms, the fact that he is always stretching for the ball and regularly stretches to make contact with seemingly unwinnable balls at the net.

Along with Serb Jelena Janković, he won the mixed doubles final of Wimbledon in 2007.

Contents 1 Career 1.1 2006 1.2 2007 1.2.1 Wimbledon Mixed Doubles victory 1.3 2008 2 Doubles finals 2.1 Wins (5) 2.2 Runners-up (3) 2.3 Grand Slam Mixed Doubles (1) 3 References 4 External links

[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 March 20, 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 April 7. 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 at Wimbledon, Murray again reached a mixed doubles semifinal of the 2007 US Open aside Liezel Huber, coming within ten points of winning a place in the final.

[edit] Wimbledon Mixed Doubles victory

Murray entered Wimbledon in June 2007, reaching the third round partnered with Eric Butorac in the men's doubles, and won the mixed doubles with Jelena Janković. Jamie approached Jelena only days before the start of the mixed doubles, and the two had only twenty minutes practice together before starting their first game. Due to the rain delays throughout the week, the two had to play both their quarter-final match (against the Polish/Zimbabwean pairing of Marcin Matkowski and Cara Black) and semi-final match against Daniel Nestor and Elena Likhovtseva on the same day. The pair made it to the final and beat Jonas Björkman and Alicia Molik, 6–4, 3–6, 6–1, making Murray the first British player to win a senior Wimbledon title in 20 years.^[5]

Janković offered him kisses in return for him playing well, sparking debate as to whether they are romantically linked.

The victory propelled Murray onto the front pages of British newspapers, with bookmakers installing the previously little-known player as joint seventh favourite to win the BBC's coveted Sports Personality of the Year trophy.

To win the title, the team won the following matches:

2007 Wimbledon Championships - Mixed-Doubles, partnered by Jelena Janković ( Serbia)
Round	Defeated	Score	Notes
First Round	Sarah Borwell / Richard Bloomfield	3–6, 7–6 (4), 6–2
Second Round	Yan Zi / Mark Knowles	7–6 (4), 6–7 (5), 6–3	Defeated the third seeds. Both were former Grand Slam doubles champions with Knowles having #1 doubles ranking.
Third Round	Sun Tiantian / Julian Knowle	6–3, 7–6 (1)	Defeated the fourteenth seeds. Sun Tiantian was the reigning Olympic gold doubles medalist.
Quarterfinals	Cara Black / Marcin Matkowski	7–6 (1), 6–7 (4), 7–5	Defeated the ninth seeds. Cara Black was the reigning women's doubles champion.
Semifinals	Elena Likhovtseva / Daniel Nestor	6–4, 4–6, 6–4	Defeated the eleventh-seeds. The reigning Australian Open mixed doubles champions. Nestor also having #1 doubles ranking along with partner Mark Knowles.
Finals	Jonas Björkman / Alicia Molik	6–4, 3–6, 6–1	Defeated fifth seeds. Björkman has been ranked #1 in doubles, having won numerous Grand Slam titles. Molik was the reigning French Open women's doubles champion.
Source: WTA Tour

[edit] 2008

Murray began 2008 with his new doubles partner Max Mirnyi, but the partnership has so far struggled. Despite victory in the Delray Beach International Tennis Championships in February, they have 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 Janurary and has applied for a wildcard singles entry for Wimbledon. On 5 June 2008 it was announced that Murray will receive a wildcard into the qualifying stages for the 2008 Artois Championships.

He also had a public fall out with brother Andy Murray, criticizing him for dropping out of the Great Britain squad for a Davis Cup match against Argentina; Jamie played in and lost the doubles match with Ross Hutchins.

[edit] Doubles finals

[edit] Wins (5)

Legend

Grand Slam (1)

Tennis Masters Series (0)

ATP Tour (4)

Challengers (1)

No.	Date	Tournament	Surface	Partner	Opponents in the final	Score
1.	11 February 2007	Dallas, U.S.	Hard	Eric Butorac	Rajeev Ram Bobby Reynolds	6–4, 6–7(4), 10-7
2.	18 February 2007	San Jose, U.S.	Hard	Eric Butorac	Chris Haggard Rainer Schüttler	7–5, 7–6(6)
3.	25 February 2007	Memphis, U.S.	Hard	Eric Butorac	Jürgen Melzer Julian Knowle	7–5, 6–3
4.	23 June 2007	Nottingham, Great Britain	Grass	Eric Butorac	Joshua Goodall Ross Hutchins	4–6, 6–3, 10–5
5.	17 February 2008	Delray Beach, Florida, USA	Hard	Max Mirnyi	Bob Bryan Mike Bryan	6–4, 3–6, 10–6

[edit] Runners-up (3)

No.	Date	Tournament	Surface	Partner	Opponents in the final	Score
1.	30 July 2006	Los Angeles, U.S.	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 (MTB)

[edit] Grand Slam Mixed Doubles (1)

No.	Date	Tournament	Surface	Partner	Opponents in the final	Score
1.	8 July 2007	Wimbledon, Great Britain	Grass	Jelena Janković	Jonas Björkman Alicia Molik	6–4, 3–6, 6–1

[edit] References

[edit] External links

• Official Site
• ATP Tour profile for Jamie Murray
• ITF profile for Jamie Murray (tennis)
• Davis Cup profile for Jamie Murray
• Guardian Blog