There’s this scene from the Wimbledon press room that does a pretty good job of what makes Andy Murray tick.
A journalist opened his question by stating that Sam Querrey was the first US professional to reach a Grand Slam semi-finals since 2009. “You mean, as the first male professional”, Murray interrupted with a serious expression.
The Scot suspected that the great successes of female US professionals were simply forgotten or even ignored by the questioner.
Murray also didn’t join the laugh that followed his remark. The matter was too serious for him.
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Andy Murray
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It is good for tennis that someone like Murray is there, who has clear opinions and does not know how to offend.
The sporting merits of the man from the county of Perthshire have been recognized and appreciated in Great Britain for a long time. In 2013 he was knighted and accepted into the Order of the British Empire, followed four years later by the appointment of a Knight Bachelor.
Since then, the tennis professional has officially been known as Sir Andrew Barron Murray.
He is chivalrous these days too.
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From the Big Four to 839th place in the ranking
That is, of course, much better than the 839th place, which he occupied in July 2018 – but also a long way from position one, which he held for a total of 41 weeks. From November 2016 to August 2017 Murray was the industry leader and part of the so-called Big Four with Roger Federer, Novak Djokovic and Rafael Nadal.
At that time, Murray was already a three-time Grand Slam champion and two-time Olympic champion in singles. He had proven it to everyone who had doubted him after losing all of the first four major finals of his career.
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Murray is far from finished.
Not sporty – and certainly not as a role model and voice of his sport. A real sir …
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