News about Andy Murray

Andy Murray has won his first sporting tournament since retiring from professional tennis just two months ago. But rather than lifting silverware for his exploits on a tennis court, this time Murray was celebrating victory on the golf course. The three-time tennis Grand Slam winner turned out victorious at the British Tennis Journalists' Association's (BTJA) inaugural Mike Dickson Golf Day.

It's been 76 days since Sir Andy Murray 's glittering career came to an end with a final swansong at the Paris Olympics . But the double Wimbledon champion appears to have quickly moved on from life as a professional athlete as he has revealed plans to create a new restaurant at his luxury five-star hotel, Cromlix. Shifting from tennis icon to restaurateur, Murray and his wife Kim want to build a new 80 cover restaurant which would replace the current eatery known as The Glasshouse. The new restaurant at Cromlix, which is near Murray's birthplace of Dunblane, Perthshire, would form an extension to the C-listed Victorian mansion with views over the hotel's lawns through huge glass windows along a new terraced area.

Novak Djokovic has admitted that tennis has not been the same for him without his rivalries with the likes of Roger Federer, Andy Murray and Rafael Nadal. Federer retired from tennis in 2022 with 20 Grand Slam singles titles to his name. Murray, a winner of three Slams, then called time on his career in August earlier this year.

EXCLUSIVE BY MATTHEW LAMBERT: Strange to say about a Grand Slam champion, but it feels as though the career of Emma Raducanu is yet to really get going. She retired from her quarter-final match at the Korea Open last week with a ligament sprain in her left foot and just like that a season in which she has played only 13 events is in danger of tailing off.

After the success of its first edition, the Hexagon Cup - a revolutionary padel tournament backed by high-profile sports heroes including Rafael Nadal , Robert Lewandowski and Andy Murray - will return with a star-studded addition. Padel is a racket sport booming in global popularity, with an estimated 25million active players worldwide. Since securing the backing of DMG Ventures, the inaugural Hexagon Cup successfully lured the very best international padel players to compete in six teams.

Sir Andy Murray has added to his trophy cabinet after scooping a prestigious hospitality award. The 37-year-old retired tennis ace's Cromlix hotel, near his brithplace of Dunblane, Perthshire, has been named as the best hotel in Scotland. His wife Kim, 36, joined staff members for the evening and accepted the coveted gong at the AA Hospitality Awards at Grosvenor House in London on Monday. The 15-bedroom Victorian country mansion was among the top hotels and restaurants across the UK recognised at the national event.

The 2024 AA Hospitality Awards winners were picked by the AA's inspectors, who have spent the past 12 months chewing their way through the UK's restaurant menus and resting their heads in the nation's hotels. The testing was all in a bid to discover the crème de la crème of food, wine and rooms.

RIATH AL-SAMARRAI: Sir Gareth Edwards saw the funny side when we chatted a few months ago about what could no longer be seen. As with so many of his conversations, the other party brought up the greatest try ever scored and his descriptions were beautifully vivid as he charted that ball's journey of wonder 51 years ago in Cardiff. Pass by pass, sidestep to offload to dive, he recalled it all as we stood 150 yards or thereabouts from where he and a few Barbarians had made their magic. But identifying the precise spot he crossed against the All Blacks was harder to pin down. It was impossible, actually, with the patch of ground concealed by decades of rebuilding, remodelling and renaming on the site of the old National Stadium, filled today by the Principality Stadium.

As weight-loss strategies go, giving up tennis might not seem the most obvious solution - unless, like Andy Murray, you happen to be a former Wimbledon champion. The 37-year-old Scot, who hung up his rackets at the Paris Olympics last month, made the shock revelation that he has lost almost a stone since playing the final match of his career. Murray, who has spent much of his time on the golf course in the weeks since, said at a celebrity pro-am event in Wentworth that he had shed the pounds since he stopped working out daily in the gym and putting in the hours on the practice court

Brad Gilbert has revealed that he is no longer working with US tennis sensation Coco Gauff.  The legendary coach - who has also worked with the likes of Andre Agassi, Andy Roddick and Andy Murray - helped Gauff win her maiden Grand Slam at last year's US Open. They began working together in July 2023 but, on Wednesday, Gilbert confirmed the split on social media after a difficult few months for the 20-year-old.

RIATH AL-SAMARRAI, WENTWORTH: Andy Murray has shot down the prospect of following his mother onto Strictly Come Dancing now that he is retired - but has targeted surpassing Tim Henman on the golf course. The two-time Wimbledon champion called time on his tennis career last month, with his competitive energies now funnelled towards becoming a scratch golfer. Those interests saw him contest the pro-am of the BMW PGA Championship at Wentworth on Wednesday alongside Anton Du Beke, a judge and former dancer on the show.

Andy Murray has made a highly-anticipated return to sporting competition after his emotional retirement summer, as he swapped the tennis court for the golf links to compete in a celebrity Pro-Am at the BMW PGA Championship . The Scottish icon said farewell to the sport he lit up for two decades, after crashing out of the doubles event at the Paris Olympics with partner Dan Evans. In a glittering career, Murray won two Wimbledon titles and was a two-time Olympic champion as he fought against Roger Federer , Rafael Nadal and Novak Djokovic in a series of classic 'Big Four' rivalries. Speculation has been rife as to what the tennis star will do next with rumours mounting over a potential coaching role as he looks to keep himself busy in his retirement.

NIK SIMON: It is a phone call Tom Curry will never forget. Sitting in a car park in Manchester, ready to pick up his Dachsund, Toby, when he discovered he may have to retire at the age of 25. 'It's like the five stages of grief,' says the Sale Sharks and England flanker. 'I remember the day so clearly. Nav, the physio at Sale, listed off all the things that were wrong and I was just in tears. 'Then I had a zoom call with the surgeon and he said you are probably going to retire. I literally just cried. I curled up into a ball. I just couldn't really process it. It was a surreal moment but you just have to go through those raw emotions and then process it all.'

Andy Murray's quest to become a scratch golfer will see him tee it up with Bob MacIntyre in the pro-am of next week's BMW PGA Championship at Wentworth. Murray has moved from the tennis courts to the fairways over recent weeks after calling time on his illustrious career following the Olympics last month. The three-time Grand Slam champion has set himself the target of attaining a scratch handicap in his new venture - and has now enlisted the help of MacIntyre to perhaps offers a few tips.

He may be the most successful tennis player the country has ever produced. But it would appear Andy Murray is no different to any other parent after admitting he felt a 'certain amount of guilt' every time he had to leave his family to go off to work for weeks at a time. The 37-year-old former double Wimbledon Champion made the remarks as he talked about his retirement which allows him to spend more time wife Kim and their four children. Speaking to BBC Radio 4's Today programme, he said: 'The thing that I always found difficult in recent years was that there was always a guilt associated with what I was doing. 'If I was going away for a trip of like three to four weeks I would feel guilty leaving my children at home or being away from my wife for a long time with them, so missing the kids I found hard.'

The 37-year-old called time on his illustrious career in July following his and Dan Evans' exit from the men's doubles competition at the Paris Olympics in July. Murray bade a long farewell to the sport that he saw him become a national hero, having spent years battling through injury before revealing that 2024 would be his last on the tour. Like many former greats before him, Murray feared walking away from the game would be difficult but he has revealed that those concerns - for the time being at least - were unfounded.

Naturally, Niall Farrell's bank in Dumfries was suspicious at first. This scruffily dressed customer was seeking to wire extraordinary sums of money abroad. There seemed to be no fixed monthly income - only random arrivals of large amounts of capital, much of which he seemed to want to divert to foreign countries. In the banking world, electronic eyebrows are programmed to rise at such activities. What was his game? Money laundering, perhaps? Was he a drugs baron? It turns out his game is poker. And he is pretty good at it. In terms of career earnings, the unprepossessing 36-year-old is the most successful Scot the game has ever seen. Though far from a household name, he is the Andy Murray of this much-misunderstood mind sport, rubbing shoulders with the greats of the game at tourna-ments around the world and, occasionally, taking them to the cleaners.

Jack Draper's mother has made a last-minute U-turn and jetted off to New York to see her son play in his US Open semi-final against Jannik Sinner , having previously seemed unsure as to whether she would watch. The Briton has surged to the latter stages of the Grand Slam without dropping a single set, seeing off Zhang Zhizhen, Facundo Díaz Acosta, Botic van de Zandschulp, Tomas Machac and number ten seed Alex de Minaur in the process. As he prepares to face the world's top tennis player at the Arthur Ashe stadium tonight, Draper will be hoping to follow in the footsteps of compatriot Emma Raducanu who won the women's title in 2021. Victory tonight would also make him the first men's British Grand Slam finalist since Andy Murray lifted the Wimbledon trophy eight years ago.

The Princess of Wales today shared a personal message on social media to say was 'looking forward' to working with the UK's new chief scout Dwayne Fields . Royal fans were thrilled to read the post on X shortly after 1pm by Kate, who is joint president of the Scout Association, which was signed off with her trademark 'C'. She wrote: 'Delighted to welcome @DwayneFields as the new UK chief scout. The Scouts is such an incredible organisation, teaching #SkillsForLife and making a huge difference to young people across the country. Looking forward to working with you! C.' The Princess has been undergoing chemotherapy treatment following her cancer diagnosis which she revealed in March and has stepped back from public duties. Following her tweet today, royal supporters said it was 'lovely to hear from the Princess of Wales', with one describing it as a 'lovely message from Catherine'.

Jack Draper is a 9/2 outsider with Sky Bet to defeat world No 1 Jannik Sinner and become the first British man since Andy Murray in 2012 to reach the US Open final. Meanwhile, Sinner is a very short 1/8 favourite to reach his maiden final at Flushing Meadows. In addition to the head-to-head odds outlined above - Sky Bet are offering a Featured Price Boost and a further three Price Boosts for this highly-anticipated contest. Firstly, the featured boost - which is valued at enhanced odds of 1/1 - requires Draper to win a set. Meanwhile, the three price boosts are for Sinner to win 3-1 at 11/4, Draper to win the first set 6-3 or 6-4 at 6/1, and Draper to win the match and serve the most aces at 9/1.

MATTHEW LAMBERT IN NEW YORK: Emma Raducanu's US Open title in 2021 showed the world anything is possible. And for young tennis players in Britain, who had grown up watching the god-like figure of Andy Murray, it showed that mortals could win Grand Slams, too. Jack Draper was one such player. Watching Raducanu's astonishing run at Flushing Meadows lit a spark in him and, this fortnight, that spark has burst into flame. 'What Emma did was incredibly inspiring,' said Draper, who takes on world No 1 Jannik Sinner on Friday night at the US Open, in his first Grand Slam semi-final. 'I've known her from a young age, and to see what she did was incredible. I was very proud of her.

MATTHEW LAMBERT IN NEW YORK: Twenty years since Andy Murray won the junior title here at the US Open, his protegee Charlie Robertson is on a mission to do the same - with a little help from his 'moody' older sister. 'It would be pretty cool for another Scottish boy to do the same as Andy,' said Robertson. The 17-year-old from Guthrie, near Forfar has been taken under the wing of the Murray family. He has known Judy and Jamie for some time and then this summer he was invited to a post-Wimbledon training camp with Andy in Greece.

Jack Draper has raced into the US Open quarter-finals without dropping a set, and is now just three matches away from glory in New York. The British No1 will play Australia's Alex de Minaur for a place in the last four later today, and has enjoyed stepping out of Andy Murray's shadow and into the spotlight over the past 10 days. The Scot retired last month after competing at his fifth Olympics, and Draper has since emerged as his heir apparent.

MATTHEW LAMBERT AT FLUSHING MEADOWS: For evidence that Jack Draper has hit the big time, one only had to note the presence in his box of the world's most famous bob. Roger Federer, Serena Williams, Andy Murray: Anna Wintour only watches the best and the editor-in-chief of Vogue was sat next to Draper's brother and agent Ben to watch the British No1 annihilate Tomas Machac to reach his first Grand Slam quarter-final. Whatever the 74-year-old made of Draper's fuchsia kit with the oversized top - or, indeed, the Scarface t-shirt he was pictured wearing yesterday morning - she cannot fail to have been impressed by his tennis.