Jamie Murray’s career reads like a map of British tennis ambition—sometimes speeding ahead, sometimes looping back for another try. It starts in a very specific place in time: he broke into the top 100 of the ATP Doubles rankings in 2006.
His first ATP Tour title came the following year with American partner Eric Butorac in a tournament in San Jose, California—while, in the same era, brother Andy was winning his first ATP title in the singles event the year before. Another success quickly followed alongside Butorac in Memphis, securing a leap into the top 50 of the ATP Rankings in February 2007. By 2007 he’d already started building a rhythm in doubles that looked almost unfair: grass court title in Nottingham, then, a few weeks later, the kind of moment that sticks in the memory of a whole country.
He won his first grass court title with Butorac at the LTA tournament in Nottingham in June 2007 and a few weeks later captured the adoration of the British public with his run to the Wimbledon mixed doubles title with Jelena Jankovic from Serbia. In doing so, he became the first British player to win a senior (non-wheelchair) title at the All England Club since Jeremy Bates and Jo Durie won the same event 20 years earlier. That run has that familiar All England Club atmosphere—so loud you can almost hear the strain in the air as the crowd leans forward—though it’s hard to describe until you’ve been there. Even now, it feels like one of those milestones that changes what people think is possible.
That same year, Jamie also received his first call-up to the Great Britain Davis Cup team for a tie against the Netherlands. A run to the semi-finals of the mixed doubles at Wimbledon and the final of the US Open alongside Liezel Huber were notable highlights of 2008, with the same duo beaten at the semi-final stage of Wimbledon a year later. He kept stacking titles with different pairings, winning tournaments with British players Jonathan Marray and Jamie Delgado in 2009, then backing up those wins with five more titles the following year, including an ATP 500 title win alongside brother Andy in Valencia. Another title alongside Andy came in 2011 in Tokyo. Two years later, a second grass court success in Nottingham arrived when he teamed up with Australia’s John Peers—giving home fans something genuinely British to celebrate, even if the match-ups weren’t always easy.
The partnership with Peers did more than decorate a resume; it drove momentum. It would yield six title successes initially, before the duo then clinched two more ATP Tour titles when they reunited in 2024. And then there’s 2015—Davis Cup glory—where Great Britain’s journey is a story that thrilled British sports fans. Jamie played in every tie on route to victory, with a win alongside brother Andy against the French pairing of Nicolas Mahut and
Jo-Wilfried Tsonga in a thrilling quarter-final, before a dramatic five-set win against Australian duo Sam Groth and Lleyton Hewitt in an epic semi-finals rubber in front of a raucous Scottish crowd in Glasgow. In the final, Jamie and Andy teamed up for a crucial win against Belgian duo Steve Darcis and David Goffin, with the Murray name forever linked to the iconic 2015 triumph sealed when Andy beat Goffin to clinch the tie in Ghent.
They became the first British team to lift the Davis Cup trophy since 1936.
World No.1 came next, and it felt like it had been building for a while. Jamie broke into the top 10 of the ATP Doubles rankings for the first time in late 2015, a prelude to success alongside his new partner, Brazilian Bruno Soares. The duo won their first title in January 2016 in Sydney, then clinched the Australian Open title in Melbourne, beating Daniel Nestor and Radek Stepanek in the final to give the
Scot his first men’s double title at a Grand Slam. It kick-started a remarkable year: Jamie rose to world No.1 in the rankings in April 2016, then added the US Open title, beating the Spanish duo of Pablo Carreno Busta and Guillermo Garcia in the final in New York. They finished the year as the world No.1 doubles pairing, the first Brit to reach No.1 since the introduction of the modern rankings system. They were
also the first set of brothers to both hold world No.1 status at the same time—somehow, that detail matters.
After that peak, there were more chapters, and they weren’t all the same shape. Queen’s Club winner in 2017 with Soares, mixed doubles Wimbledon glory with Martina Hingis, then two more US Open mixed doubles titles with Bethanie Mattek-Sands in 2018 and 2019 for a total of seven Grand Slam doubles wins. In recent years, he initially called time on his partnership with Soares after Roland Garros in 2019, before reuniting in 2021, reaching the
Australian Open semi-finals and the US Open final in a productive year ending with another appearance in the ATP Finals. There was a spell with fellow British player Neal Skupski, with an ATP Tour title in Bulgaria in November 2022, and a standout achievement as he collected his 500th career win, partnering Mathew Ebden as they beat No.3 seeds Marcelo Arevalo and Jean-Julien Rojer at the Paris Masters. The last of his 34 career doubles
titles came alongside John Peers in Belgrade in November 2024. In March 2025, he played his 1000th tour-level doubles match, 19 years after his first tour-level match.
And the story doesn’t stop when the rackets do. Jamie started the transition towards life after playing when he took on the role of Tournament Director for the ‘Battle of the Brits’ event at the LTA’s National Tennis Centre during the Covid pandemic in 2020, before he staged another ‘Battle of the Brits’ event in Aberdeen in late 2023. He took up the role of Tournament Director for the LTA’s ATP 500 tournament at the Queen’s Club in the summer of 2024. An OBE for services to sport and charity in 2016 follows, and his Davis Cup career ends with an impressive record of 14 wins from 20 doubles matches. It’s a different kind of victory now—less applause, more planning—but you can still see the same instinct behind it. Rise up the rankings, then help the next generation.
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