Andy Murray was born on 15 May 1987 in Glasgow and grew up in Dunblane, Scotland. He and his older brother Jamie, later a doubles champion, were first coached by their mother, Judy, who had played competitively. At 15, instead of entering the British coaching system, he moved to Barcelona to train on the clay courts of the Sánchez-Casal Academy under Pato Alvarez. He won the 2004 US Open junior title and turned professional in 2005.
He lost his first four major finals, and in 2012 he hired Ivan Lendl, who had also lost his first four major finals and who taught him greater self-control and self-reliance. The breakthrough came that summer. A month after losing the Wimbledon final to Roger Federer in tears, he beat Federer on the same Centre Court to win the Olympic gold medal in London. Then he beat Novak Djokovic in a five-set US Open final to become Britain's first major singles champion since Virginia Wade in 1977. In July 2013 he beat Djokovic in the Wimbledon final, the first British man to win the title since Fred Perry, 77 years earlier.
In 2015 he led Great Britain to the Davis Cup, and 2016 was his best year. Reunited with Lendl, he won a second Wimbledon title, defended his Olympic gold in Rio, the only player to win two Olympic singles golds, won the season-ending ATP Finals and became world No. 1 in November, a ranking he held for 41 weeks. Amélie Mauresmo also coached him for two years.
A hip injury then took over his career. After 2017 he needed hip-resurfacing surgery in 2019, a fight documented in the film Andy Murray: Resurfacing, and he came back to win titles again in 2023. He retired after the 2024 Paris Olympics, where he reached the doubles quarterfinals, with 46 titles, three major singles titles from 11 finals and two Olympic golds. He was knighted in the 2017 New Year Honours and briefly coached Djokovic after retiring.