Andy Murray

Andy Murray was born to Willie and Judy in Glasgow, Scotland.[1][11] His maternal grandfather Roy Erskine was a professional footballer who played reserve team matches for Hibernian and senior football for Stirling Albion;[12][13] Murray has a bipartite patella, where the kneecap remains as two separate bones instead of fusing together in early childhood.[14][Murray started the year ranked World No. 407 and ended the year at World No. 64. Of his nineteen singles tournaments, ten were either futures or challenger tournaments. His performances throughout the year drew praise from John McEnroe, who suggested that Murray would overtake Tim Henman as the top ranked British player in 2006. He said, "With Murray the sky's the limit".[29]

In March, Murray was asked to play doubles for Great Britain's Davis Cup team against Israel and became the youngest ever Briton to play in the Davis Cup.[30] Murray and David Sherwood defeated the Israeli doubles team, who were ranked World No. 8 and had reached the Wimbledon semi-finals in 2003, 6–4, 7–6(5), 2–6, 7–6(5).[30] This helped the British team to a 3–2 victory.

Murray turned professional in April[31] and played his first senior tournament when he was given a wild card to the Open SEAT clay court tournament in Barcelona. He lost in the first round to Jan Hernych. After this, he reached the semifinals of the French Open juniors tournament. The Barcelona tournament gave Murray his first ranking point from a senior tournament, and he was soon handed a second wild card, this time at the Stella Artois Championship at Queen's Club in London. He lost his third round match there, at least partly because of muscle cramping.[32] Murray was then awarded a wildcard for Wimbledon. He went into his first senior Grand Slam tournament ranked World No. 312 and caused a major upset by defeating fourteenth-seeded Radek Štěpánek in the second round in straight sets. He was the first Scottish man in the open era to reach the third round at Wimbledon[33] and was the only Briton remaining in the men's or ladies' singles championship. Murray's run ended when he was beaten by David Nalbandian in the third round after Murray won the first two sets
15] Murray attended Dublane Primary School, where he experienced the Dunblane Massacre of 1996.[16] Thomas Hamilton killed 17 people, mostly children who were in a younger age group than Murray, before turning one of his four guns on himself. Murray himself took cover in a classroom.[17] Murray says he was too young to understand what was happening and is reluctant to talk about it in interviews, but in his autobiography Hitting Back he says that he attended a youth group run by Hamilton, and that his mother gave him rides in her car.[18] Murray went on to attend Dunblane Andrew "Andy" Murray (born 15 May 1987) is a Scottish professional tennis player and currently the highest-ranked British player.[3][4] Murray achieved a top 10 ranking by the Association of Tennis Professionals for the first time on 16 April 2007. In 2008, Murray finished runner-up to Roger Federer at the 2008 US Open,[5] and he reached a career-high ranking of World No. 3 in May 2009.High School.[19][20]