Andrew "Andy" Murray (born 15 May 1987) is a Scottish professional tennis player. He is ranked World No. 3[2] and is the British No. 1.[3] He achieved a top-10 ranking by the Association of Tennis Professionals for the first time on 16 April 2007, and reached a career peak of World No. 2 from 17 to 31 August 2009.[4] At the 2012 US Open, he became the first British player since 1977, and the first British man since 1936, to win a Grand Slam singles tournament when he defeated Novak Djokovic in five sets.[5] He is the only British male Grand Slam champion of the Open Era. Murray won an Olympic gold medal in men's singles and an Olympic silver medal in mixed doubles at the 2012 London Olympics, and has been the runner-up in four singles Grand Slam finals: the 2008 US Open, the 2010 Australian Open, the 2011 Australian Open, and 2012 Wimbledon, losing three to Roger Federer and one to Novak Djokovic. In 2011, Murray became the seventh player in the Open Era to reach the semi-finals of all four Grand Slam tournaments in one year.[6] Murray is the only British player to reach the Wimbledon men's singles final in the open era, as well as the first British player in over 100 years to win a tennis gold medal at the Olympics. Also, Murray became the first man in history to win the Olympic gold and the US Open back to back. read more