Andy Murray Biography in English - British Tennis Player

[Music] Andy Murray he is a tennis player he was born in Glasgow Scotland United Kingdom on 15 May 1987 his father's name was William Murray and mother's name was Judy Murray his mother was a competitive tennis player and a coach he grew up in Dunblane in central Scotland his mother trained his older brother Jamie and Murray from the age of three he played first competitive tournament at five and was competing with adults at the age of eight in 1996 Murray witnessed the tragedy when an armed person Thomas Hamilton entered the Dunblane primary school and shot 16 students and a teacher and then shot himself Marie escaped by hiding in a classroom his parents divorced when he was 10 his mother coached him till the age of 12 and later he left for Spain to train on clay court in Barcelona Spain he studied at Shimer International School and trained under coach paedo Alvarez at Sanchez Castle Academy earlier he was interested in football and was offered training with Ranger Football Club when he was 15 but declined to concentrate on tennis in 1999 at the age of 12 he won a major Youth Championship Florida Orange Bowl he won the US Open Junior title in 2004 and became world's number one junior he was awarded BBC's young Sports Personality of the year in 2004 he was the only non English person to receive it at 17 years he was the youngest player to represent Great Britain in Davis Cup Murli made his professional debut in April 2005 at ranked 407 and by year-end he ranked 64 in 2006 he won the Cincinnati Masters Tournament by beating top ranker Roger Federer in the same year he defeated Andy Roddick to earn first ATP title by winning SAP open in 2007 he won a second SAP open as well as st. Petersburg open and made it to the top ten he defeated the Spanish champion Rafael natal in the semi-finals of 2008 US Open but lost the finals to feeder in April 2007 he reached the top 10 and then top four in 2009 between 2008 and 2012 he lost four Grand Slam finals he reached the 2012 Wimbledon finals but lost to feed rare for whom it was his seventh Wimbledon win in 2012 Murray appointed eight times Grand Slam champion Ivan Lendl as his coach and their teamwork brought some positive outcomes he defeated Federer in August 2012 at London Olympic Games to claim the men's singles gold medal later in the same year he won his first Grand Slam title after beating the Serbian player Novak Djokovic in a tough battle at the US Open in 2013 he lost the Australian Open to Djokovic in July 2013 Murray became the first British in 77 years to win men's singles title at Wimbledon by defeating Novak Djokovic in March 2015 he recorded his 500th career victory at Miami Open he reached his fourth Australian Open finals but couldn't win the title he lost the 2015 French Open to Djokovic then made it to the Wimbledon semi finals but was beaten by feeder he couldn't make it to the US Open finals and thus didn't claim any major title in 2015 he married Kim Sears on April 11th 2015 a Dunblane Cathedral they have a daughter Sophia and live in axschat Surrey in February 2016 he appointed Jamie Delgado as his assistant coach Murray lost the 2016 Australian Open to Djokovic but defeated him in the Italian Open in may in June 2016 Ivan Lendl agreed to return as his coach Murray claimed his second Wimbledon men's singles title by defeating Milos Raonic in straight sets in July 2016 he won his second Olympic gold medal and men's singles tournament at Rio de Janeiro Olympic Games in August 2016 he is the first male player to successfully defend his Olympic tennis singles title his impressive Korean record shows 655 wins and 184 losses and has won total 45 titles he reached his career's highest ranking of number one on November 7th 2016 you have to go into each match believing you can beat all of the players said Andy Murray [Music] [Music]