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Andy Murray

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(July 7, 2013) Murray's Wimbledon men's singles tennis victory (6-4 7-5 6-4) over the world's #1 player Novak Djokovic, made him the first British player since Fred Perry (1936) to win the title in 77 years. Murray also became the first ever British player to win the title wearing shorts.
He was awarded the OBE (Officer of the Order of the British Empire) in the 2013 Queen's New Years Honours List for his services to Tennis. He is a tennis player.
He was awarded the Knight Bachelor of the Order of the British Empire in the 2017 Queen's New Years Honours List for his services to Tennis and charity. He is a tennis player in Surrey, England.
Younger brother of tennis doubles player Jamie Murray and son of coach Judy Murray.
Murray attended Dunblane Primary School. He was present during the 1996 Dunblane school massacre, when Thomas Hamilton (43) killed 16 children (average age 5) and a teacher (45) before shooting himself; Murray (then 8) 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 states that he attended a youth group run by Hamilton, and that his mother Judy gave Hamilton lifts in her car.

When you have beaten guys a few times, you don't want them to think they know how you are going to play them. You have to try and find different ways of beating them. You have to do things they don't expect sometimes, put something unpredictable into your game.
When a lot of things are going the wrong way for a country, for a people, when you can't really think of anything worse than a war, you always try to take life on the brighter side and that's how I grew up with my parents.
People say to me, 'You don't seem that interested in interviews.' Well, you know, I'm not, often. I'm not going to talk tactics with the press, so you are left with talking about how you are feeling; for me, it is not the most interesting thing to be doing.
I've been asked a lot lately if tennis is clean or not. I don't know any more how you judge whether a sport is clean. If one in 100 players is doping, in my eyes that isn't a clean sport.
I don't want a flashy car, just something that would allow me to stop using the Tube. And it would be good not to have to rely on my mum all the time, particularly when I have to listen to her singing in her car.

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