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Icons of sport: Andy Murray

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It's time to explore another sporting icon. This article will focus on Andy Murray. This is a man that has made history on numerous occasions.  Brief overview and career highlights  He is a British professional tennis player from Scotland. He was ranked world No. 1 for 41 weeks and finished as the year-end No. 1 in 2016. Murray has won three Grand Slam singles titles, two at Wimbledon (2013 and 2016) and one at the US Open (2012), and has reached eleven major finals. He was ranked in the top 10 for all but one month from July 2008 through October 2017 and was no lower than world No. 4 in eight of the nine year-end rankings during that span. The Scot has won 46 ATP singles titles. That success includes 14 Masters 1000 events. Early career At the start of his career, he was coached by his mother Judy alongside his older brother Jamie, Murray moved to Barcelona at age 15 to train at the Sánchez-Casal Academy. Andy began his professional career around the time Roger Federer an...