With Murray announcing his retirement, we’re looking back on the Brit’s long, successful career – highlights of which include:<\/p>\n
Jamie Murray career highlights<\/p>\n
He is a two-time men’s doubles Grand Slam champion after winning the 2016 Australian Open and 2016 US Open title alongside Brazil’s Bruno Soares
\nHe is a five-time mixed doubles Grand Slam winner having won the Wimbledon title in 2007 and 2017 and the US Open in 2017, 2018 and 2019
\nHe contested 13 men\u2019s doubles Grand Slam finals
\nHe won an impressive 34 doubles titles on the ATP Tour
\nIn 2015, he helped Great Britain to its first Davis Cup title in 79 years, winning a crucial doubles rubber in the final against Belgium alongside brother Andy Murray
\nHe played in 1019 ATP Tour-level matches throughout his career and won 589 of those
\nRepresented Team GB in four Olympic Games in Beijing, London, Rio and Tokyo
\nTournament Director at the HSBC Championships, Battle of the Brits and Murray Trophy
\nBecame the first brothers to simultaneously hold the world No.1 spots in singles and doubles alongside Andy Murray<\/p>\n
LTA Chief Executive, Scott Lloyd, said, \u201cOn behalf of the LTA, and all British tennis fans, I would like to congratulate Jamie on a fantastic career and express our gratitude for the incredible impact he has had on the sport.<\/p>\n
“Jamie\u2019s achievements of playing over 1000 Tour-level matches, winning seven Grand Slam titles, Davis Cup glory and reaching world No.1 speaks for itself. We wish him the very best as he embarks on the next stage of his illustrious career.\u201d<\/p>\n
LTA Head of Men\u2019s Tennis and Davis Cup Captain Leon Smith said,\u00a0“Jamie\u2019s been an unbelievable player representing Great Britain on the world stage over his career. He played an invaluable role in our Davis Cup 2015 winning campaign, and we have many great memories from across the 20 ties he\u2019s played.<\/p>\n
“He’s positively impacted the game of doubles in this country, and globally, with his achievements and commitment to the game and it was a great privilege to be a part of his career over the years.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"With Murray announcing his retirement, we’re looking back on the Brit’s long, successful career – highlights of which…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":533564,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[101,118,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-533563","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tennis","tag-sports","tag-tennis","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/533563","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=533563"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/533563\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/533564"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=533563"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=533563"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=533563"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}