Andy Murray Personal Life & Biography

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Country Great Britain
Residence London
Date of birth 15 May 1987 (1987-05-15) (age 22)
Place of birth Glasgow
Height 1.90 m (6 ft 3 in)
Weight 84 kg (190 lb; 13.2 st)
Turned pro 2005
Plays Right-handed, two-handed backhand
Career prize money US$7,306,740

Andy Murray was born to Willie and Judy in Glasgow, Scotland.His maternal grandfather was a professional footballer who played reserve team matches for Hibernian and senior football for Stirling Albion;as a result, Murray is a Hibs fan.Murray has a bipartite patella, where the kneecap remains as two separate bones instead of fusing together in early childhood.Murray attended Dunblane Primary School, where he experienced the Dunblane Massacre of 1996.Thomas Hamilton killed 17 people, mostly children who were in a younger age group than Murray, before turning one of his four guns on himself. Murray himself 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 says that he attended a youth group run by Hamilton, and that his mother gave him rides in her car.Murray went on to attend Dunblane High School.

Andy's girlfriend, since 2006, is Kim Sears, daughter of Nigel Sears, former tennis coach of the Slovak player Daniela Hantuchová.Andy has a penthouse apartment in South London and an apartment in the Brickell district of Miami, Florida.