1. Jonathan Marray was born on 10 March 1981 and is a former British tennis player and a Wimbledon Men's Doubles champion.
47 Facts About Jonathan Marray
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Jonathan Marray first came to prominence at the 2004 Queen's Club Championship where he reached the third round.
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Jonathan Marray has since played predominantly on the ATP Challenger Tour, where he has reached one singles final and won multiple doubles competitions.
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Jonathan Marray was the first British men's doubles champion since Raymond Tuckey and Pat Hughes in 1936, the same year that Fred Perry last won the Wimbledon singles title.
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Jonathan Marray made his Davis Cup debut at 32, playing with Colin Fleming in the 2013 tie against Russia.
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Jonathan Marray was named for the 2013 World Group play-off against Croatia and so helped Great Britain earn promotion to the World Group for the first time since 2008.
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Jonathan Marray was born in Fazakerley, Liverpool, his father Kevin worked in computing at the Midland Bank, now HSBC, and his mother Kathleen was a nurse.
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Jonathan Marray didn't start playing tennis until he was 10, when his mother took the family to a local club, Abbeydale Tennis Club, after watching Wimbledon.
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Jonathan Marray was educated at All Saints Catholic High School, a Voluntary Aided Roman Catholic state secondary school, and played on the school's tennis courts Jonathan Marray played tennis with his brother David at Hallamshire Tennis and Squash Club, and at the HSBC courts in Dore, Sheffield.
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Jonathan Marray had not competed in junior grand slam tournaments and didn't have a junior world ranking, but he was determined to give it a go.
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Jonathan Marray has been confused for Andy Murray, especially when Andy first came on to the scene.
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Jonathan Marray shared a house in Sheffield with his sister, Siobhan, which he bought with his brother, David.
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Jonathan Marray began a long-term partnership with Mark Hilton that lasted till the end of 2005, though it was not exclusive.
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Jonathan Marray first hit the headlines, when he reached the third round of the 2004 Queen's Club Singles, getting his first wins on the ATP Tour.
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In 2006, Jonathan Marray mainly partnered Martin Lee, but played with eleven other players, winning 3 Challengers and a Futures tournament.
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Jonathan Marray reached a then-high of 138 in the doubles in August 2005.
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Jonathan Marray's doubles ranking was a lot higher than in singles, so he took the opportunity to play better tournaments in doubles than singles.
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Jonathan Marray continued to compete on the Challenger tour, although he eventually stopped playing singles matches.
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In December 2008, Jonathan Marray partnered Colin Fleming whose regular partner Ken Skupski was resting, and played in the Czech Republic, winning two Futures in Frydland Nad Ostravici, and Opava.
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Jonathan Marray teamed up with fourteen players this year, but his lack of success meant he came close to giving up numerous times and becoming a coach.
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Jonathan Marray finished the season in the top 100 for the first time.
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Jonathan Marray had partnered Jamie Murray sporadically, but now played regularly with him for the first 7 months of 2010.
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Thereafter Jonathan Marray embarked on a steady partnership with Jamie Delgado until January 2012.
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Jonathan Marray finished the season ranked 86th in the world.
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Jonathan Marray partnered Jamie Delgado at the Australian Open and Dustin Brown at the French Open, but lost both in the first round.
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Jonathan Marray reached seven Challenger tour finals, winning two in Bosnia and Italy with Dustin Brown.
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Jonathan Marray had been friends with Frederik Nielsen since their early days on the senior tour, but had only played together twice before in 2006 and 2008.
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Jonathan Marray was supposed to compete with Adil Shamasdin, but they did not get their paperwork in time.
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At one set all, during the third set tie break, Jonathan Marray called a fault on himself after the umpire did not see that he had inadvertently touched the net while hitting a volley, which earned him praise for his sportsmanship and honesty.
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Jonathan Marray became the first British player to win the Wimbledon men's doubles final since 1936, he thus became the first British person to win any Wimbledon Championship title since Jamie Murray in 2007; Jonathan Marray and Nielsen became the first players to get to the final and to win the men's doubles on a wildcard at Wimbledon.
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Jonathan Marray credited sport psychologist, Richard De Souza, for helping him win Wimbledon.
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Jonathan Marray initially struggled playing with seven different partners and winning just two of thirteen matches in his eleven tournaments after Wimbledon.
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At the US Open Jonathan Marray partnered again with Nielsen and were ranked as the eleventh seeds.
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At the Paris Masters, Jonathan Marray had his most successful run at a masters 1000 and since Wimbledon, reaching the semi-finals with Paul Hanley.
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Jonathan Marray ended the year ranked No 17 in the world, a career high that made him the Britain's No 1 doubles player.
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Jonathan Marray began 2013 partnering Dustin Brown, reaching the semi-finals of the Qatar Open before being defeated by Filip Polasek and Julian Knowle in three sets.
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At the Australian Open, Jonathan Marray was seeded for the first time at a Grand Slam, partnering Brazilian player Andre Sa, and seeded 16th.
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Jonathan Marray later teamed up with fellow Brit Colin Fleming for several events, including a semifinal appearance at the Open Sud de France, where they were the top seeds.
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Jonathan Marray entered Wimbledon as defending champion, but despite his previous success with Frederik Nielsen, the two decided not to play together, Jonathan Marray instead was partnered by Colin Fleming.
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Jonathan Marray had to miss both Montreal and Cincinnati due to injury, and so the pair played their next tournament at the US Open.
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Jonathan Marray ended the year ranked number 41 in the world, having lost a considerable number of points from failing to qualify for the ATP World Tour Finals.
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Jonathan Marray struggled for full fitness and finding a regular doubles partner, travelling to tournaments with no plan whatsoever.
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Jonathan Marray and Fleming moved onto the main ATP tour event in Metz as their combined ranking was not quite high enough for direct entry, they temporarily split.
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Jonathan Marray paired up with Jamie Murray, Fleming partnered Michael Venus of New Zealand.
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Aisam-Ul-Haq Qureshi, ranked 37, announced that during the 2016 season he would partner Jonathan Marray ranked 53, but after three first round defeats, which included the Australian Open, they parted.
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Jonathan Marray partnered Mahesh Bhupathi and Rameez Junaid several times with occasional runs to the semi and quarter of Challengers and Tour events.
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In February 2017 season Jonathan Marray played his final tournaments and retired one month before his 36th birthday, having played professionally for 17 years.