Jamie Murray is a seven-time Grand Slam doubles champion, a Davis Cup winner, and a former doubles world No 1.
82 Facts About Jamie Murray
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Jamie Murray has won seven Grand Slam titles: in mixed doubles at the 2007 Wimbledon Championships, with Jelena Jankovic, the 2017 Wimbledon Championships and 2017 US Open, with Martina Hingis, and the 2018 and 2019 US Open, with Bethanie Mattek-Sands, and in men's doubles at the Australian Open and US Open in 2016, with Bruno Soares.
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Jamie Murray had an early career partnership with Eric Butorac, winning three titles in 2007.
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Jamie Murray's following seven ATP finals came with six different partners.
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Jamie Murray then reunited with Soares, with the pair finishing runners-up at the 2021 US Open.
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Jamie Murray was part of the Great Britain team that won the 2015 Davis Cup, the nation's first victory in the tournament for 79 years.
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Jamie Murray has competed at the Summer Olympics on four occasions.
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Jamie Murray was born in Glasgow, Scotland, the elder son of Judith and William Murray.
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Jamie Murray grew up in Dunblane and attended Dunblane Primary School.
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Jamie Murray's parents separated in 1998, with the boys living with their father while being mentored in tennis by their mother.
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At the age of 10, Jamie Murray was No 3-ranked tennis player of his age in Europe.
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Jamie Murray was the junior world number 2 when he was 13 years old and was selected to be educated at The Leys School in Cambridge with four other boys whilst being trained by national coaches.
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Jamie Murray was isolated from the other players and the coaching wasn't to his liking, so after eight months he returned home.
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Jamie Murray has not criticised the coach in charge, and stated that blaming the Lawn Tennis Association would be an easy option.
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Jamie Murray said that Andre Sa is probably his best friend on the tour.
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Jamie Murray supports Hibernian FC and Manchester United FC His maternal grandfather, Roy Erskine, is a retired professional footballer who played reserve team matches for Hibernian and in the Scottish Football League for Stirling Albion and Cowdenbeath.
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In 2009, Jamie Murray began dating Alejandra Gutierrez, a Colombian MBA student.
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Jamie Murray partnered Colin Fleming, winning their first Futures tournament on 4 September 2005 at the Great Britain F10 in Nottingham.
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Jamie Murray played in the singles tournament draw in which he won the first qualifying round match but lost the second qualifying.
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That year, Jamie Murray partnered Ross Hutchins, to win Futures in Bolton and Maider Laval in Rimouski, Quebec.
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In November 2005, Jamie Murray was part of the Scotland team in the inaugural Aberdeen Cup against England.
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That month, Jamie Murray made his debut in an ATP Tour tournament at the 2006 Nottingham Open partnering with his brother Andy.
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That same month, the Jamie Murray brothers played together again at the Newport Hall of Fame Tennis Championships where they lost in the first round against Igor Kunitsyn and Danai Udomchoke.
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Jamie Murray stayed in the US to play the Comerica Bank Challenger with American Mirko Pehar where they reached the semifinals.
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Jamie Murray finished the month playing the Vancouver Open with Fleming, where their lost in the quarterfinals.
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Jamie Murray ended his North American tour playing the GHI Bronx Tennis Classic with Chilean Paul Capdeville, where they lost in the quarterfinals.
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Jamie Murray remained in the US to play the Tennis Open in Las Vegas.
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Jamie Murray played alongside Greg Rusedski, beating Robin Haase and Rogier Wassen.
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Jamie Murray then played the Valencia Open with Butorac, where they lost in the quarterfinals.
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Jamie Murray partnered again with Butorac in the Barcelona Open and the Estoril Open, where they both lost in the first round.
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Jamie Murray made it debut at the French Open men's doubles draw but the duo lost in the first round.
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Nevertheless, Jamie Murray was successful in the mixed doubles partnering with Jelena Jankovic.
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Jamie Murray had met Jankovic at a party in Miami in 2006, where she was unaware that he played tennis.
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Jamie Murray had made no decision until they arrived at the All England Club.
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Jamie Murray played the doubles with Tim Henman beating Marin Cilic and Lovro Zovko.
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The next week, Jamie Murray went on to play the Madrid Open with Bahamian Mark Knowles, where they were the number 8 seeds.
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Late in that month, Jamie Murray played the Grand Prix de Tennis de Lyon with Kerr but they lost in the quarterfinals.
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Jamie Murray participated in the Paris Masters, his last tournament of the season, with his brother Andy.
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Jamie Murray began 2008 with his new doubles partner Max Mirnyi, but the partnership struggled.
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Whilst Jamie Murray enjoyed singles, he thought the Davis Cup team would stand in good stead to have another member with recent singles experience, but he now accepted that he would henceforth only be a doubles player.
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Jamie Murray had a public fall out with brother Andy Jamie Murray, criticising him for dropping out of the World Group first round tie against Argentina over fears he could aggravate a knee injury.
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Jamie Murray played in and lost the doubles match with Ross Hutchins.
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Jamie Murray reached the semi-finals of Wimbledon and quarter-finals of Roland Garros.
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Seven months after the Davis Cup Argentina match, the Murray brothers prepared for the tie against Austria, with Andy declaring that he had healed the rift with Jamie.
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Jamie Murray played the Brisbane and Sydney tournaments with Vemic but played the Australian Open with his old partner Eric Butorac as Vemic was unavailable.
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Butorac and Jamie Murray, who had not played together since the 2007 US Open, lost in the first round at Melbourne Park.
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Jamie Murray played with Vizner at the French Open and with Erlich at Wimbledon, but was defeated in the first round of both tournaments.
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Jamie Murray returned to action with Delgado at the Banja Luka Challenger and became champions of the Ljubljana Open.
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Jamie Murray finished the season at the Slovak Open, being defeated in the first round.
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Jamie Murray started the 2010 year as a semifinalist in the ATP Challenger event in the Prime Cup Aberto de Sao Paulo with Jonathan Marray.
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Jamie Murray lost in another Challenger event in the Open Bucaramanga on clay in the quarterfinals.
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Jamie Murray played his first ATP tournament of the season at the Zagreb Indoors but was defeated in the first round.
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Jamie Murray returned to Challenger tournaments and won the Internazionali di Tennis di Bergamo.
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Jamie Murray returned to play an ATP tournament at the 2010 Serbia Open but lost in the first round.
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Jamie Murray then went back to Challenger tournaments by playing the Trofeo Paolo Corazzi.
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Jamie Murray then went on to participate in the second Grand Slam of the season, the French Open, but lost in the first round.
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Jamie Murray started to prepare the grass season at the Queen's Club Championships losing in the second round.
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Jamie Murray then played the Eastbourne International but lost in the first round.
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At the Wimbledon Championships, Jamie Murray received a wildcard but was defeated in the first round.
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Jamie Murray competed in the mixed doubles, alongside Laura Robson, but lost in the first round.
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Jamie Murray ended the season with another Challenger win, in Bratislava.
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Jamie Murray followed this up with two semi-final appearances, partnering Alexander Peya at the SA Open and his brother Andy at Rotterdam.
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Jamie Murray next played at the Open de Moselle, where he partnered Andre Sa, going on to win the tournament by defeating Lukas Dlouhy and Marcelo Melo in the final, winning in straight sets.
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Jamie Murray began 2012 playing at the Brisbane International partnering Paul Hanley for the first time.
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Jamie Murray got to his first final of the season again partnering Paul Hanley at the Open Sud de France, but lost the final to Nicolas Mahut and Edouard Roger-Vasselin in straight sets.
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At Wimbledon, Jamie Murray re-partnered with longtime partner Eric Butorac for the first time in five years.
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Jamie Murray described partnering his brother at the London Olympics as a dream come true.
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Jamie Murray then spent the final month of the season playing with a variety of different partners on the Challenger Tour.
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Jamie Murray was close to sliding out of the doubles top 100 and contemplated quitting the sport altogether.
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Jamie Murray started the year at Brisbane International with regular partner John Peers.
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Jamie Murray did make the quarterfinals of the mixed doubles, partnering Australian Casey Dellacqua.
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Andy Jamie Murray won his next singles match, putting Great Britain through to the Davis Cup quarter-final.
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Jamie Murray was behind an initiative aimed at engaging with the next generation to make them more active and attract them to tennis.
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Car manufacturer Peugeot announced a two-year sponsorship deal with Jamie Murray lasting until 2017.
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Jamie Murray decided to rest in the hope of finding his best form for the Davis Cup Final by skipping the entirety of the 'Asian swing': a three-week sequence that begins in Shenzhen on Monday and runs through Tokyo, Beijing and Shanghai, incurring a possible financial downside.
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Jamie Murray was selected for the 2015 final against Belgium in Ghent and played the doubles rubber with brother Andy, defeating David Goffin and Steve Darcis in a hard-fought four-set victory.
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Jamie Murray joined his Davis Cup teammates at the BBC Sports Personality of the Year show where they won 2015's Team of the Year Award.
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Jamie Murray was appointed Officer of the Order of the British Empire in the 2016 Birthday Honours for services to tennis and charity.
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The brothers had already teamed up a few weeks earlier for the Washington Open where Jamie Murray was the reigning champion, being eliminated in the quarterfinals.
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At the 2019 US Open Jamie Murray reached the semifinals in doubles with Skupki and then won the Mixed Doubles with Mattek-Sands.
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At the 2021 US Open Jamie Murray partnering with Bruno Soares reached the final for the third time in his career defeating Filip Polasek and John Peers in the semifinals.
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Jamie Murray became only the second active doubles player after Marcelo Melo to reach the milestone.