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Andy Murray is a professional tennis player who is the current world No. 1 in the ATP rankings. He is the reigning Olympic champion, having won the men's singles tennis tournament at the 2016 Rio Olympics. In 2016, he became the first man to win singles titles at (1) a grand slam, (2) Olympic gold, (3) Masters 1000 event, and (4) the ATP World Tour Finals. He has reached eleven grand slam finals in total: he won the 2016 Wimbledon Championships, 2013 Wimbledon Championships and the 2012 US Open, and finished as runner-up at the 2008 US Open, the 2010, 2011, 2013, 2015 and 2016 Australian Opens, at Wimbledon in 2012 and the 2016 French Open.
Contents
- Career achievements
- Singles performance timeline
- Doubles performance timeline
- Record against other players
- Career Grand Slam tournament seedings
- ATP Tour career earnings
- Participations 398
- References
Murray made his professional tennis debut on the main tour in Barcelona in 2005. So far in his career, Murray has won 44 singles titles. This includes three Grand Slam titles, 14 Masters 1000 Series titles (placing him ninth on the all-time list), two gold medals at the Olympics, and a title at the ATP Finals. He also has two exhibition titles medal in the mixed doubles with Laura Robson. He has won over $58 million US dollars in prize money.
Below is a list of career achievements and titles won by Andy Murray.
Career achievements
Murray reached his first Major semi-final and final at the 2008 US Open, where he lost in the final to Roger Federer in straight sets. He reached his second Major final at the 2010 Australian Open, again losing to Federer in straight sets. At the 2011 Australian Open, Murray's third Major final appearance ended in another straight sets defeat, this time at the hands of Novak Djokovic. He made his fourth appearance in a Major final at the 2012 Wimbledon Championships, becoming the first male British player since Bunny Austin in 1938 to make it to a Wimbledon final. He lost to Roger Federer, who recovered from losing the first set to prevail in four sets. This meant that Murray matched Ivan Lendl's record of losing his first four Major finals.
A month after this defeat, however, at the same venue, Murray won the gold medal at the 2012 London Olympics, defeating Federer in three sets in the final, while losing only 7 games in the entire match. This was Murray's first victory over Federer in the best of five sets format. Later the same day, he and Laura Robson won silver in the mixed doubles. In his fifth Major final appearance, at the 2012 US Open, he defeated Novak Djokovic in five sets. By winning his first Major final at the fifth attempt, he again emulated his coach Ivan Lendl, who also needed five Major final appearances to win his maiden Grand Slam tournament. His victory over Djokovic took four hours and fifty four minutes, equal to the 1988 US Open final between Ivan Lendl and Mats Wilander as the longest U.S. Open singles final in terms of time. Coincidentally, Lendl was coaching Andy at the time of his 2012 US Open victory.
In addition, Murray has appeared in 21 Masters 1000 Series finals, winning 14. He has qualified for the ATP World Tour Finals every year since 2008, his best result coming in 2016 event where he went undefeated in round-robin play and then defeated Milos Raonic in the semi-finals. En route to the final, he played the two longest 3-set matches in the event's history against Kei Nishikori and Raonic. In the final he defeated Novak Djokovic in straight sets to clinch his first World Tour Finals crown, as well as the coveted year-end No. 1 ranking.
Murray has lost 21 finals in his career, of which 16 were against the other members of the so-called Big Four (Djokovic 10, Federer 5, Nadal 1). The last eight out of nine finals he has lost have been to Djokovic, four in grand slams and four in Masters 1000 events. Between August 2010 when he lost to Sam Querrey, and August 2016 when he lost to Marin Cilic in the Cincinnati Masters, Murray's final losses all came against one of the Big Four. Additionally, in all but one of Murray's eleven grand slam finals, his opponent has been either Djokovic (7 times) or Federer (3 times). Murray has taken 12 wins over #1-ranked players, 3 against Nadal, 4 against Federer, and 5 against Djokovic.
Murray's 11 grand slam singles finals is the ninth best total of the Open Era. He is in the top 10 for most match wins at 3 of the 4 grand slams (6th at the Australian Open with 45 wins, 7th at Wimbledon with 53 wins, and 10th at the US Open with 44 wins). In Masters 1000 events (going back to 1990), his 14 titles rank him 9th overall. Lastly, by winning his 42nd Tour title in Vienna in 2016, he moved into sole possession of 15th place on the Open Era titles list, breaking the tie he had with former world No.1 Stefan Edberg. His win at the Paris Masters 1000 event was his 8th Tour title of the season and means that he has now won 7 of the 9 different Masters 1000 events (missing Indian Wells & Monte Carlo).
Singles performance timeline
Updated through the 2017 Australian Open
1Held as Hamburg Masters (outdoor clay) until 2008, Madrid Masters (outdoor clay) 2009–present.
2Held as Madrid Masters (indoor hard) from 2002–08, and Shanghai Masters (outdoor hard) 2009–present.
Doubles performance timeline
Updated through the 2017 Qatar Open..
1 including Win-Loss 2003 (0–1)
Record against other players
Murray's match record against those who have been ranked in the top 10, with those who are active in boldface.
Career Grand Slam tournament seedings
The tournaments won by Murray are in boldface.