 Scottish
tennis stud Andy Murray is 6'3" (1.9m) and 190 lbs. (84kg). According
to Wikipedia Andy was born in Glasgow, Scotland. His maternal grandfather, Roy Erskine,
was a professional footballer who played reserve team matches for Hibernian and
in the Scottish Football League for Stirling Albion and Cowdenbeath. Murray's brother,
Jamie, is also a professional tennis player, playing on the doubles circuit. Murray
was born with a bipartite patella, where the kneecap remains as two separate bones
instead of fusing together in early childhood. He was diagnosed at the age of 6
and had to stop playing tennis for six months. Murray is seen frequently to hold
his knee due to the pain caused by the condition, but manages it through a number
of different approaches. But Murray has been known to pull out of events because
of the condition.
He witnessed a mass murder at his own school as a child.
Murray attended Dunblane Primary School, and was present during the 1996 Dunblane
massacre. Thomas Hamilton killed 7 people, mostly children who were in a younger
age group than Murray, before turning one of his four guns on himself. Murray took
cover in a classroom. 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 Murray is in a four-year relationship with Kim Sears,
which ended briefly in 2009 before they reconciled in 2010. Murray's tennis
idol is Andre Agassi.
Murray was born with a bipartite patella, where the
kneecap remains as two separate bones instead of fusing together in
early childhood. He was diagnosed at the age of 16 and is seen
frequently to hold his knee due to the pain caused by the condition and
has pulled out of events because of it. Since 2006 Murray has been
in a relationship with Kim Sears, daughter of player-turned-coach Nigel
Sears, who is regularly seen attending his matches. Sears is a pet
portraitist and a former pupil of Burgess Hill School. In February 2013,
Murray bought Cromlix House for �1.8 million which opened as a 15-room
five-star hotel in April 2014. In April 2014, Murray was awarded Freedom
of Stirling and became a Doctor of the University of Stirling in
recognition of his services to tennis. |
