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SIR ANDY MURRAY
TennisDaughter Sophia seems to have acted as
a lucky charm for Murray. Since her birth
last year he has won Wimbledon for a
second time, claimed a second Olympic
gold medal and won the lucrative
end-of-season ATP Tour title at the O 2
Arena in London. He also toppled Serbian
nemesis Novak Djokovic from the world
No 1 spot to fi nish the year as the top-
ranked player. The Scot was rewarded for
his work on and off the court with a
knighthood in the new year honours list
for his services to sport and charity.
Stellar achievements bring stellar
rewards. The 29-year-old won nearly
£13m in prize money alone last year and
has a host of high-paying endorsement
deals. He left Adidas in 2015 to sign a
£15m contract with the American sports
equipment manufacturer Under Armour
and also has agreements with Jaguar
cars, Standard Life and the racket maker
Head. In March he invested in three
more start-ups on Seedrs, extending
his portfolio to more than 20
businesses on the equity-based
crowdfunding platform.
Murray lives in the affl uent
Surrey village of Oxshott
with his wife, Kim, pictured,
also 29, and Sophia, who
celebrated her fi rst
birthday in February. Their
neighbours include several
Chelsea footballers. He has
a second home near his
winter training base at the
University of Miami, Florida,
and bought the Cromlix estate
near his home town of
Dunblane for £1.8m in 2013,spending several million more renovating
it. The fi ve-star hotel now on the site —
which hosted his wedding in 2015 — was
voted the most luxurious in Scotland for
the second year running last April.
Dog lover Murray misses his two border
terriers, Maggie May and Rusty, so much
while touring that he talks to them on
Skype. Maggie May even has her own
Twitter account, with more than 30,000
loyal followers — administered with a
little help from Kim. When Murray won the
BBC Sports Personality of the Year award
for the third time in December, she
tweeted a picture of Maggie snoozing on
the sofa with the caption: “Sorry, I slept
through the whole thing.”
Ever the professional, Murray shies
away from sponsorship deals that
regularly require attendance at corporate
events. It is this kind of devotion to his
sport that has made him quite possibly
the leading British athlete of his
generation — at a time when some of
the greatest players to grace his
sport are competing for the
biggest prizes.
Firmly established as
one of tennis’s “Fab Four”
with fellow superstars
Djokovic, Rafael Nadal
and Roger Federer, the
quarte t have dominated
the game for more than a
decade, picking up prize
money of more than
$340m (£265m) along the
way. Few would expect
that trend to end any
time soon. 2016: £57m, 11
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