We caught up with the Scottish tennis star ahead of his 15th Wimbledon tournament
He splays his left hand out on the table. The nail of his ring finger has an odd jagged crack running across it like a geological fault line. When he was a kid, Andy was winding his brother Jamie up, gloating about finally having beaten him at an under-10s tournament in Solihull. The minibus ride back to Dunblane stretched out ahead of them. Eventually, the older Murray retaliated by punching his brother’s hand straight down into the armrest.
Sir Andy Murray OBE gets sneak peek of the new interactive game Race to Wimbledon developed on FortniteHe is, it’s worth pointing out, one of British sport’s great champions. During an era in which four of the greatest players in the history of men’s tennis converged at once – Murray, Rafael Nadal, Roger Federer and Novak Djokovic – Murray held his own with three grand slams, two Olympic gold medals and a Davis Cup victory.
Murray has nothing to prove to anyone, but keeps proving it. When we speak he’s just won a title at Aix-en-Provence and placed second at the Qatar Open; a few weeks later he’ll pick up wins at Surbiton and the Nottingham Open. He didn’t do anything silly; he worked hard, and he loved tennis. He’s mellowed a bit, he thinks. His four kids are there to help level things out after a long day with a game of draughts. Murray has started collecting art too. His wife Kim paints, and during one of Murray’s extended periods out injured, a friend tried to show him around a gallery. Murray didn’t find much he fancied.
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