Andy Murray: The Man Behind the Racquet

Well, I see somebody that's pretty darn gifted.

I know him since we are kids.

Oh, dear.

We are big rivals and to be really close friends

is difficult, you know.

He might be just a shy guy

and doesn't want to bring a lot of attention to himself off the court.

Or maybe he feels like he's got to put everything he's got

into trying to deal with Federer and Nadal.

He is more or less just the same person that he ever was.

Success, thankfully, hasn't gone to his head. He's not a diva.

His absolute charm is that he is a superstar

and I don't even know that he knows it.

I just happen to feel a great allegiance to Andy.

He's just been such an extraordinary example

of how to improve yourself

and get better at something and better something.

It took him to cry for people to suddenly take a step back

and go, "Wow, he has got a heart. He is a sensitive soul."

All right, I'm going to try this and it's not going to be easy.

To come so close, you know,

and you just want to run there and hug him, you know?

He's proving himself time and time again.

Watching Andy, I get more worked up,

more emotionally involved than I do my own team.

He's happier with himself

because he achieved something he wanted to achieve.

The US open, I think, just blew all of that out the water.

It was just so amazing and I still get goose bumps thinking about it.

I like his personality. He's humble. He's a good person.

That's the most important thing.

This is a homecoming for a local hero.

Last summer, he won gold at the London Olympic Games

and then became the first British male

to win a Grand Slam singles title for 76 years.

You never know how busy it's going to be,

but I hope there's a good turnout.

CHEERING AND APPLAUSE

Thank you.

-MAN:

-You thought winning it was tough(!)

I'm used to, you know, five or six people being down the High Street,

so, yeah, this is a first for Dunblane, that's for sure.

CHANTING: Andy! Andy!

Andy, we're proud of you, son.

He's just amazing.

It makes you proud. Proud to be Scottish.

It means the world to this town.

We've had hard times and good times and this is one of the good times.

I don't know how many people were there,

but it was enormous considering the size of Dunblane.

All these people were down the High Street. It was stunning.

Absolutely stunning.

Andy!

THEY SHOUT

I went into the local newsagents, Meldrum's.

I remember I used to always go in there

and steal penny sweets from him.

I told him when I saw him

and he's got no penny sweets left in there any more.

This is not as easy as it looks.

Home has a name that comes with a shiver.

Do any of you know any famous tennis players?

Who do you know?

-CHILD: Andy Murray.

-Andy Murray.

And do you know that Andy Murray went to this school?

And his brother, Jamie, and I came to this school as well.

All of these things that we set up in here

are all things that we used to do at home.

You know, we were just a normal family,

we didn't have an awful lot of space

and the weather in Scotland is terrible,

so you're always looking for things you can do indoors

to occupy young, active children.

The balloon game that Jamie and Andy played in the hall

was probably the favourite.

They'd put a piece of rope across the radiator to the wall

to separate the hall,

and bat the balloon back and forwards.

We are on fire now, aren't we? Wow, look how good he's got.

And, of course, boom-boom balloon was fabulous

until the balloon hit the radiator and burst,

and then it was all over!

Oh, there you go. Good. Sorry, sorry, sorry.

Sport runs in the family - tennis down the maternal line.

His gran Shirley played. Mum Judy was a professional.

There was football too. Grandad Roy played fullback for Hibernian.

Add a sport-loving dad -

no surprise it all came to the Murray boys naturally.

Competitively.

Because we're a similar age, we were always able to do it together.

We were very competitive.

I think he was certainly more competitive than me

and I'm sure other people, you know, that are close to us

would testify to that as well.

Whether it was Monopoly or snakes and ladders,

it didn't matter what he was playing, he had to win.

He had to be the best.

My nickname when I was a kid was Bamm-Bamm, from the Flintstones,

because I used to just get so angry,

I would just be bashing things around.

He could be nice as ninepence enjoying himself, having good fun,

and then you would introduce a bit of competition into it

and he would change.

You'd say, "Oh, my God." You know, he was right in your face.

The incident we had when he was...

The first time we got this lottery ticket.

He wanted to pick the numbers.

I said, "No, no, I'll get the numbers."

We sat and watched the lottery numbers come up.

He was sitting there in front of the TV,

watching it with the ticket in his hand. They called out the numbers,

of course, we didn't win and he went crazy.

"You're rubbish at picking out numbers, Dad.

"You're not doing this again.

"That's it!" You know, just for a lottery ticket.

So, you know, from a very young age, he has always been very competitive.

Very competitive.

We were quite big into the wrestling when we were growing up

and we would have sort of wrestling matches.

Sometimes we would make up our own belts or whatever.

He was always bigger than me

and he would only let me win against him for the women's belt.

Yeah, that's all I would let him be.

The outside courts of Dunblane. Outdoor Scottish tennis.

It sounds like a form of torture, but it wasn't.

We were never forced to do tennis or whatever.

I think that my mum, especially,

she was so good at not pushing us to do it if we didn't want to.

Both the brothers began to win junior tournaments.

At the age of 12, Andy won the prestigious Orange Bowl in Florida.

Even at this tender age, serious rivalries were developing.

But friendships too.

I know him since we are kids. That's a real thing.

We played, you know, Winter Cup, all these competitions -

under 12, under 14.

Nadal is obviously a good friend of Andy's

and they seem to get on really well. And he is a very humble guy.

We play a lot of times PlayStation at the hotel, no.

Yeah, we have a lot of fun.

He went off to play in the European Junior Team Championships,

Under 16's for Great Britain. He came on the phone, he went,

"Mum, Mum, I've just been playing racquetball with Rafa.

"Do you know what he does?

"He trains with Carlos Moya..."

Who was number one in the world at the time. "..in Majorca.

"He doesn't go to school. He plays on clay."

He's this, he's that. "And what do I have to do?

"Play down the university with you and my brother!

"I want to go to Spain! I need to go to Spain!"

-WILL MURRAY:

-It was a good set-up, but to be away from home, for me,

for a parent, it was difficult.

For someone that age to want to do that -

couldn't have been easy for him.

We went out to see him

and we were almost appalled as to where he was staying.

The mess that there was.

We could hardly open the door.

He seemed to be enjoying it and having a whale of a time out there.

He met some good friends and stuff that, you know,

he's still in touch with today.

And obviously that's where he met Dani,

who's now travelling with him.

The first day he got there, they made him practise with me

and I was like, "Oh, my God, who is this kid? He's very good."

And he always says that

I gave him attitude that day

and that I wasn't too nice to him, but I don't think that's true.

When he was 17,

Andy won the Junior US Open at Flushing Meadows in New York.

He dedicated his victory to the people of Dunblane.

"Andy Murray went to this school and is from Dunblane."

Aw, I like that.

And that's Andy. That is his golden postbox.

I think it's nice that, you know,

after all the negative publicity that, you know,

the town got after what happened so many years ago,

that it's able to be shown in a positive light now and, yeah,

I guess that's testament to the success that Andy's had.

This is the assembly hall.

-That's their clock up there.

-It's nice, isn't it?

'Mostly, when I go up to school now, if I'm doing something,'

I'll do it in the playground or I do it in the new gym

and I actually don't go near that part of the building.

'I found it quite difficult today

'when we went in to look at the clock in the assembly hall.'

Andy's class were on their way to the gym.

His class were the next ones in the gym

and his class were stopped, you know, when somebody went up,

when they heard the noise and discovered what had happened.

NEWS REPORT: 'As far as we know,

'a gunman burst in shortly after 9:30 this morning, into the gymnasium,

'where he opened fire.

'There are very, very few details from the scene itself.'

On the 13th of March 1996,

Thomas Hamilton, armed with four handguns,

went into Dunblane Primary School

and shot dead 16 children,

their teacher, Gwen Mayor, and then himself.

I was one of hundreds of mums

that were queueing up at the school gates,

waiting to find out what had happened,

not knowing if your children were...alive or not. So...

I'm going to struggle with this bit. Em...

There were lots and lots of questions from them.

Mainly, I think, because they knew the guy who had done it

because they used to go to one of his boys' clubs

up at the high school.

I had given him lifts

up and down from the train station to the high school.

So the fact that they knew him made the questions more, you know,

"Why would he do something like that?""

Andy, from time to time, would talk about it.

Jamie never, ever talked about it.

It was very, very difficult to avoid it because, of course,

it affected the whole town.

You may not want to talk about it at all,

but, you know, do you have any memories of that?

Yeah, I mean, it's something I never spoke about, really, ever

since I went on the tour, because...

Well, since I started getting asked about it a lot in the press,

because it is something that was obviously, I think,

for, you know, all of my family and the town...

-We'll finish there. Don't worry. Honestly.

-No, it's OK.

Yeah, so I think it's just something that I think just all of my family

and all of the people in Dunblane...

Cos, you know, there's a lot of...

You know, there's a lot of...

At the time, you have no idea, like...

..how tough something like that is and then...

But, yeah, then as you start to get older, you realise.

And yeah, the thing that is nice now, the whole town...

..they recovered from it so well and, you know, there was...

It wasn't until a few years ago that I started to actually, you know,

research it and look into it a lot because I didn't really want to know.

So, yeah, it's just nice

that I've been able to do something...

that the town is proud of.

I think that happened last year. You know, the golden letterbox,

all the things that happened it's, you know, helped so much.

Andy, we'll leave it there.

-I just want to say I'm so sorry.

-No, that's all right.

Maggie's taken to me, though.

No, he's OK. He just doesn't like it

when anyone's taking the attention away from him.

SHE LAUGHS

The town has recovered incredibly well.

It's a very strong community.

The schools here are fabulous and it's a real family-orientated town.

CHEERING

I know that they both are very aware that what success they've had

and the excitement they have maybe brought to the town

has hopefully helped a lot with the moving-on process.

The second Sunday of July last year.

The Wimbledon Men's Singles Final.

In it, the great Roger Federer from Switzerland,

ever-popular at the All England Club.

And Andy Murray? From where?

People are kind of surprised that somebody English, or Scottish,

can play tennis.

-LAUGHTER

-Or Scottish?

Well, Tim Henman's not bad.

Not bad. But he's at another level.

You travel around the juniors

and I can imagine anybody in the United States, where I come from,

say, "An English kid won the US Open juniors?"

Scottish.

LAUGHTER

Scottish.

Since 2005, this proud Scot has been in the public eye,

his opinions sought, his picture taken,

his every word analysed

and sometimes coming back to haunt him.

Andy and I were doing an interview before Wimbledon.

It was a World Cup year and, as ever, Scotland hadn't qualified,

so I started giving him abuse, saying,

"It must be a nightmare being Scottish.

"You never qualify for the European Championships,

"you're not in the World Cup."

As much as he would make jokes,

you know, to me about the Scotland football team, you know,

I would also do the same about the English football team.

And it's not...

It doesn't make someone pro- or anti-English or Scottish,

it's just something that friends do with each other.

We were laughing and it was just banter.

And the journalist said,

"What are you going to do? Who are you going to support?"

And Andy, totally off-the-cuff, said, "Oh, I don't care.

"I'll support anyone that's playing England."

It was a treat the tabloids couldn't resist.

Hate mail came his way by the sack-full - the price of banter.

I do it all the time. And I tell all my players.

You know how many bets I've lost with Robson and Bruce

and Neville and Scholes over the years?

Fortunes.

If England were to win a World Cup - God forbid -

then I would be delighted if my players were involved in it.

I really would. People get too serious about these things.

The wrong choice of words at the wrong moment

can basically cause you months and sometimes years of hassle.

MUSIC: "You're The Best" by Joe Esposito

# Fight till the end cos your life will depend

# On the strength that you have inside you... #

I've done various sorts of things with different sportsmen

in an entertainment capacity, and the point is

that these are all incredibly young guys

and they've all, at one stage or another,

been...done over by journalists, basically.

And once that happens,

once you've sort of openly spoken to a journalist

and they've taken one thing of what you said,

splashed like that and turned a lot of people against you,

you just sort of shut down, I think.

# You're the best around

# Nothing's gonna ever keep you down. #

When I first came on the scene,

I could joke and laugh around and everyone was saying,

"Oh, it's great. A breath of fresh air and something different."

Then, you know, as soon as you make that first mistake

and say one thing that everybody picks up on, you know,

whether it's a joke or not,

you know, you start to become a lot more guarded.

I've always felt sort of protective of him

because he's, you know...

He's out there, he's doing brilliantly,

but it's a little bit lonely playing as a British tennis player

in this country, playing on the world stage,

because there aren't many others.

Off court, at a walking pace, with Kim Sears -

artist, girlfriend - and their dogs.

This is Maggie and that's Rusty.

Maggie was named after Maggie May, the Rod Stewart song.

And whose job is it to look after them, walk them, feed them?

Whose job is it, Andy?

I like the responsibility of having them.

During training or during Wimbledon, for example...

They are good. They're a good wake-up...

Andy's not always been good at waking up in the morning.

He has got better since we've had them,

but I can always send the dogs in to jump on his face

and then he's going to wake up with a smile.

Let's let them off now. He will just be desperate to just bomb right off.

-They don't run off, then, they're quite good?

-Oh, this one does.

-She'll chase anything that moves.

-OK!

-As long as she behaves herself.

-I'm sure she will.

-He's generally really good. He does come back.

Maggie!

SHE WHISTLES

Rusty has gone to look for her.

In San Jose, you were sort of launched into the limelight,

-weren't you?

-Yes.

-Suddenly Andy wins this tournament out of nowhere

-and it's all over the news.

-Yeah, it was really strange.

It was a great week. We had so much fun.

I went away with him, thinking,

"It's fine cos he's never going to win the tournament

"and I'll be back in time for school on Monday." And then he did.

I remember just saying to Mum, "You've got to call and tell them

"I've got the winter vomiting virus or something

"and I'm not going to be in."

But it ended up on the front page of the papers

and they were like, "Oh, no, busted. Sorry."

It was a bit weird, the few days that followed,

cos we had, you know, quite a few people following us around

and people turning up at my school and things.

But it's quietened down since then.

She's a disaster.

They are really good in the house

and everyone thinks they're amazing,

and then we take them out and they just disgrace themselves.

What are you doing? Huh?

I was talking to Kim about how San Jose sort of launched,

well, both of you big-time into the spotlight.

Yeah, we definitely don't court it, I think.

So, for the most part, they do leave us alone.

I think we're really boring as well, so they probably...

Yeah, the last few Wimbledons and stuff,

a few of the photographers have, like,

waited outside the house to see what we're doing on the off days

and I think after the fifth or sixth dog walk, they were like,

-"This is a waste of time." So then they don't come back any more.

-Yeah.

What was worth following him for was his tennis.

His followers were loving his march to the Wimbledon final.

Do you look forward to Wimbledon, Kim, or is it sort of a...?

No. Is what I'd say! I used to.

The finals was difficult for everybody involved.

You know, Andy, myself,

the crowd, cos all the matches I've played there,

finally, a Brit being in the finals again

and it was a big deal for both of us.

There was incredible pressure.

Pressure on Andy from media, spectators, himself.

It was just incredible.

There were days after the matches where my head was just spinning.

COMMENTARY: There has been so much talk about

how Murray is going to start this match

having been in three Grand Slam finals

and never won a set.

Murray's ahead.

CHEERING

The great Roger is under assault here.

CHEERING

The crowd are up here on Centre Court.

Murray was not going to miss on that point.

It's a set point.

It's a brilliant start from Murray. He's got a set on the board.

I was at the final. Until they put the roof up,

I thought he was going to do it, you know.

But as soon as the roof went up,

Federer's shots got better, you know.

And Federer's fantastic in Wimbledon, you know.

COMMENTARY: Championship point.

Championship number seven for Roger Federer.

He's done himself proud,

but it's a fourth Grand Slam final where he hasn't won.

I think that was a huge turning point for him.

He performed well, you know, because, up until that point

in previous Grand Slam finals, he hadn't really done himself justice.

To come so close and not be able to do it, I think,

was obviously very difficult.

I'm sorry you had to go through it, Andy.

But he did so, so well, I thought, throughout the championships,

handling the pressure and playing at a very, very high level.

At the end, when he had to take the microphone

and do the runners-up speech,

I found that very difficult just to watch.

It was just such a brave thing to do.

All right, I'm going to try this and it's not going to be easy.

CHEERING

You just want to run there and hug him, you know.

I mean, I feel kind of emotional thinking about it now.

I'm going to try and not look at them or I'll start crying again,

but everyone that's in the corner over there

that's supported me through this tournament,

it's always tough, they did a great job, so, thank you.

I think it was good for him

and I think it was good for other people to see.

I think it was a defining moment for him.

And, last of all, to you guys.

CHEERING

Everybody always talks about the pressure of playing at Wimbledon,

how tough it is, but it's not the people watching.

They make it so much easier to play.

The support has been incredible, so, thank you.

I thought it was sad on a number of levels.

Obviously because he was incredibly disappointed,

but I find it slightly sad

that it took him to cry in his acceptance speech

for people to suddenly take a step back and go,

"Wow, he has got a heart.

"He is a sensitive soul."

I think, if nothing else,

you're going to get more people

understanding what it means to you as a person,

because he's a pretty guarded guy - very guarded, actually.

I liked seeing it, because you want to see someone care

and to watch him sort of communicate, you know,

how much that moment meant to him.

It made me want to root for him more, no question.

Boy, what class and grace that he showed.

I think that, in many ways,

humanised Andy for the public and for the press.

You know, normally when you lose a match,

you can kind of go back to the locker room and, you know, you're upset.

And I've seen loads of great players in the locker room

crying after matches,

but you don't always see it in front of the crowd.

But then, obviously, when you lose in a final like that

and you have to speak,

then it's tough sometimes to hold the emotions together.

You couldn't look at them, but I was facing them

and there was a lot of tears up in the box as well.

There were a lot of tears, yeah. There were.

It's just horrible seeing someone you care about go through that

and I think we'd all been there

and the immediate aftermath wasn't pretty.

-No, it was bad.

-What you do?

Do you want to lock yourself away or just get out?

Normally, I mean, I go quiet. I don't speak much.

But after that match, like, I just cried for so long.

Even when we got back home, I found that match really, really hard.

From a young age, he wanted to win a Grand Slam.

That was what he set out to do and he's been very driven.

He's got a real work ethic.

I don't know where he's got that from.

He could chill out, do what he wants to do, but he doesn't.

He started to go out to Miami in his off-season

and, from what the guys around him say, he kills himself,

and you can see that in, you know,

his performances in Australia the last few years.

He's had great results

and he's always looking like

he's spent the whole month of December working hard

and not, you know, enjoying his turkey and the trimmings.

The making of a Grand Slam winner stretches across the continents.

This is Miami, Florida, where he's been coming to train for five years.

Most of the time we come here it's obviously just for training.

Yeah, I mean, the weather's always good, good food here,

lots of guys to practise with.

Serena Williams stays just in one of these blocks here.

We tried taking the metro around Miami last night

and it ended up just really, really badly.

You've worked with Andy now for over six years.

The last six years, yeah.

I mean, his body shape has changed

and that's down to your torture methods.

Yeah, constructive torture.

And, like I said earlier, down to his genetics.

I mean, his genetics are superb

and he is an amazing athlete to work with.

Andy was quite clear what he needed.

He was always fast enough, he's got a good engine,

he reads the game, his anticipation is fantastic, his speed is natural.

If you can put a lot of strength and endurance on the back of that

then you're not going to go too far wrong.

A normal day for him would be at least four or five hours.

He'll do a lot of stuff in the gym.

A lot of basic lifting to get his foundation strength up,

and then it's all mileage. So it's all long intervals, like 10k runs.

Cork spins on the court, replicating what he does. It's all endurance.

It's not pretty.

The last four or five years, I mean,

I've really enjoyed going to the gym and, you know,

sort of embraced the physical challenges

that we have on the court now.

OK, this one fast. Three, two, one. And go.

Drive, push, first step.

Drive. Good, Andy. Good.

Beauty. Go, go.

Stop.

Good. OK.

It is sort of a time when you're seeing the game

played in the different way than it ever has.

Some of it is because these guys have access to things

that we only dreamed of having access to.

Now they have their own trainers.

You know, they could have a physical trainer,

a trainer that takes care of the body,

a cook, a masseuse, a tennis coach.

I mean, that's five right there.

Forget your girlfriend or your wife or your kids.

In charge of the Murray body is his physio, Andy Ireland.

Whether you win or lose, you still need to do your recovery

and I think that has certainly been the hardest part

for a lot of athletes that I have worked with.

It's the last thing you want to do when you're finishing late at night,

is then do all your media, get back, do an ice bath, do physio,

do massage and recovery.

It can be three, four or five hours after the match finishes

before he's ready to go to bed.

So, yeah, I don't think it's a fun part of the day.

Joking aside, most people would think, "Oh, wouldn't it be lovely

"to have someone come and give you a nice massage

"at the end of the day?"

But a lot of that is probably quite a painful massage.

I did joke earlier and said, you know, we normally have candles

and whale music playing, but it really isn't that sort of a massage.

You could try that though.

You know, when you're 17, 18,

you don't have any pain in your body.

Like, nothing hurts.

You don't need to see the physio every single day,

but once you've been playing on the tour for four or five years,

things do start hurting

and you need to make sure you have good people around you.

But, yeah, I never would have thought

you would have to have five, six people

working with you on a weekly basis.

The rest of the team.

For fitness, Jez Green and Matt Little.

And on the tennis side, his good friend Dani Vallverdu

and coach Ivan Lendl.

There seems to have been a shift,

in the years that I have worked with Andy,

in the last five years,

from being an individual player with your coach

to having a team around you of specialists.

When I first started working with everyone, you know,

people were saying, "He's got such a big team."

Then a couple of years later, you know,

everyone was doing a similar thing.

Tennis is hard. When you're growing up,

my coach used to make sure I was in bed at the right time.

Basically almost baby-sitting you a little bit, whereas now,

being on the tour a long time, I know what I want.

Which means Andy is now in charge.

And prepared to make changes.

Coaches Mark Petchey, Brad Gilbert and Miles Maclagan

have come and gone.

Andy has always known his own mind.

It was a Challenger tournament. He was probably about 16, 17.

He was playing a South African lad who was an experienced professional.

He was actually giving verbals to Andy during the match,

saying a few things to upset him, hopefully.

Andy said, "Do you hear what he's been saying to me?" I said,

"Yeah. Do you want me to go and have a word with him?"

He says, "No, no, it's fine. I'll be fine."

And then he went back out and he finished the match and beat him,

and I knew at that stage he was going to be OK.

He could stand up for himself.

And he can stand up for himself,

and I think he's made a lot of decisions in his professional career

that probably one or two people might have backed off from,

but he hasn't.

A year and a half ago, he appointed a new coach -

Ivan Lendl, winner of eight Grand Slam titles, but twice his age.

Andy called me. We talked for quite a while

and decided it would be good to meet in person

and then we all agreed it could work.

He likes to work hard and what else can you ask of your player?

Go and work hard and try for every point and what happens happens.

Lendl is also an incredible workhorse.

He had a lot of discipline in his own career and training

and he certainly has gotten Andy to believe

and to physically believe in himself.

He is someone who could look him in the eye and say,

"I've been in your position." Which very few people could say.

Ivan, before he beat me in the French,

had lost four finals, and Murray had lost three, I believe,

so there was sort of a similarity.

For me to be able to speak to someone

who'd gone on to be a great player

but at also been in a lot of the same situations as me on the court

was so helpful.

I'm there for anything he needs.

Before the matches we go through strategy.

I'll let Andy talk first and then Dani

and if there's something I think I have noticed about the opponent,

or what's going on right now, I add it.

But very few times I have to add anything.

The boys have it covered pretty well.

MUSIC: "Heroes" by David Bowie

# We can be heroes

# Just for one day. #

Three weeks after Wimbledon 2012, he was back on Centre Court -

there not as a one-man Scot, but part of the British Olympic team.

He was desperate to do something for Team GB.

He was going to play in everything.

He was going to play the singles, the men's doubles,

the mixed doubles, but he was going to get a medal for the team.

CHEERING

COMMENTARY: There will be a medal for Murray.

He beat Djokovic in the semifinals.

Youngest son came on the phone, "We've got to go, we've got to go."

And they had, of course, the two children, dog, everything,

so, that evening, you can imagine what it's like

trying to get two children and a dog organised.

And they all said, "I'll drive, I'll drive.

"We'll all go down together." And off we went.

The night before my final

was the night when Jess Ennis, Mo Farah and Greg Rutherford

won their gold medals.

It was a huge inspiration, I think.

It gave me some momentum going into the final the following day

and I went on to play maybe the best match of my career.

He had lost a tough match to Federer

but he sort of had to come back real quick and get into the Olympics

and that was the first time

where I really saw the crowd really behind him, way more than Federer.

CHANTING: Murray! Murray!

It seemed to be that the whole crowd were behind him.

I don't think he'd experienced that

in that environment in Wimbledon before.

I don't think he felt he was loved there.

There was obviously people who did,

but at the Olympics it was incredible.

Did it get an extra 10th of a per cent out of Murray? Maybe.

But, you know, there was a different atmosphere for the Olympics

and Andy just dominated.

I mean, from the word go, he played incredible tennis.

CHEERING

UMPIRE: Thank you. Thank you. Please.

CHEERING

COMMENTARY: It's a golden triumph for Andy Murray!

What a response from 28 days ago.

It was obviously a tough thing to do,

having just lost the final of Wimbledon

and, you know, just a few weeks later,

he comes back and wins the Olympics in the same venue,

on the same court, against the same opponent.

I think that was the making of him, really.

It showed me how much he had grown up and matured and whatnot.

I think maybe in the past,

maybe he wouldn't have been able to have dealt with that so well.

I think that Wimbledon made him realise that he can win

and I think that the gold medal on the Wimbledon grounds

made him believe that he's going to win.

I remember him coming up

and we're all standing on the lawn waiting for him,

drinking champagne, and he came up

and put the medal round my neck and said,

"Is that what you're waiting for, Mini?"

He calls me Mini cos I'm so small, you see, and he's...

He tucks me under his armpit.

So, "Is that what you're waiting for, Mini?"

And he put the medal round my neck and I sort of went,

"Oh!" Cos it's really heavy. He was genuinely very thrilled.

Brilliant. That was brilliant. Fantastic.

And it placed him high now in the nation's affections.

In third place...Andy Murray.

Well, well done to Andy.

And to present the award out in Miami,

his good friend and a former winner of this award, Lennox Lewis.

'Somebody said to me'

they're going to tell me when to give him the trophy.

So I said, "OK."

CHUCKLING: I think... I think...

LAUGHTER

So he took the trophy. I said, "No, nobody's said nothing yet."

So I was kind of taking it back.

LAUGHTER

Well done, Andy. It's yours and well-deserved. Well done.

In fact, somebody said to me, "I bet you can't make him laugh."

And I did make him laugh just with that.

He's very, very quiet. He's like me - reserved.

You know, he's not really into the tinsel stuff and the bling-bling.

He bought a really dodgy Ferrari once.

But I think that might have gone back now.

I think his girlfriend used to call it the red car.

The job, it's true, could be worse.

Life on the road. There's no junk food here.

Could I have the penne with spicy tomato sauce, please?

We try to enjoy our moments outside of the tennis.

We play with a lot of pressure every week.

A nice story - in a restaurant of New York,

he was with his girlfriend,

sitting there in a very nice restaurant and I was with,

you know, part of my team and some colleagues. And I have two numbers.

I was texting him, like, five, six messages -

"I love you. I want to see you."

He was just in front of his girlfriend though, so he was...

I put him in a very bad position

and all of us on my team and myself

thought that was a very, very funny moment.

Can I have it with no Parmesan? Thank you.

When I first started playing on the tour, I mean,

I didn't eat well at all. I was, like, 18.

I mean, the first time I played Wimbledon,

I had Pizza Express as my post-match meal.

Whereas I would never even think of doing that now.

I also tried a gluten-free diet for a few months.

-We all had to join in a little bit.

-No, you didn't.

I was giving up, I mean, breads, desserts, pastas, everything.

And here, we're sitting at a table down there, and we had said,

-"OK, no bread. No-one's having any bread."

-Yeah, we did say that.

And it lasted one meal before you got stuck...

He was trying to eat it under the table.

He was trying to hide it with his phone.

He was eating like that in the restaurant.

-I don't need to lose weight.

-You don't?

-I mean, he loves his desserts as well.

-Bread, Andy?

-I'm good, man.

He eats well, he can afford to dress well.

If he chooses, he can lead the high life.

The worst thing that could happen to Andy Murray

is he suddenly gets his teeth veneered

and starts acting or behaving like a superstar.

That way.

When I was a kid growing up

and you told me that Rod Laver ate peanut butter,

the odds would go up that I'd want to try it

cos maybe I'd have a left arm as big as he did.

So if someone decides they want to brand Andy Murray

in a way where they show some of his personality,

I think that's a good thing.

There is a new projection of Andy Murray

by the creator of the Pop Idol shows

and founder of XIX Entertainment, Simon Fuller.

The man behind the Beckhams is putting Andy out there.

Normally I don't really enjoy those things that much,

but that was really good fun

cos there was a lot of fire involved in it.

You, they had these sort of stunt men that normally use fire

and they were lighting, basically, nets behind me and it was so hot.

They basically set my racquet on fire as well when I was holding it.

-PHOTOGRAPHER:

-Look back at me. Great. Just a little bit. There.

Nice. Chin comes up a little bit. Nice.

Individual looks and style on the court

has really developed a following

and obviously Roger plays the sort of classic gentleman

and Rafa is sort of much more out-there, a bit more edgy.

I always thought back then that Andy had a lot of potential.

It just seemed to me

that he was a different kind of style representative for the sport.

He appeared in Anna Wintour's American Vogue.

This was a very different look. Was it a gamble?

I don't think Andy Murray has ever been a gamble.

He's somebody that is very true to himself,

so he would never have done it

had he not felt that that was the right thing to do.

He was sharp and, you know, he was sexy and he was strong

and, you know, he kind of... He scrubbed up well.

It's a fine line how you choose to communicate yourself.

You can certainly do it through advertisement,

but you better be very disciplined

on who you are representing, how they're representing you,

and what message you're really communicating.

Being true to yourself is where you need to start.

He's a rather reluctant brand. I think what he loves is the sport.

I mean, that's why he's there every day.

It isn't about the fame or the financial rewards.

He just really wants to play tennis.

The last two or three years,

I've definitely improved at dealing with those things

because it becomes part of your job.

The sooner you accept that,

the more you can enjoy it and have fun with it.

There is the fast lane, the high life.

There is also the slog of getting there.

The hard road, the recovery sessions, the ice bath.

-How long is he to be in there?

-Ten minutes.

We have had to lure Andy in with a packet of sweets.

-I don't think you've ever done one, have you?

-Well, it's not my job.

-This isn't my job either.

-It's part of it.

It's not my job to sit in an ice bath.

THEY LAUGH

-You were in agony on the court. You need to get in.

-This is it.

He'll say something's hurting or something's bad, now...

This is the time he should be getting in the ice bath.

-When you've all gone, I'll get in.

-No, you won't.

THEY LAUGH

You're going in. Look, you can barely walk, man. Get in there.

It's unhygienic anyway.

It's unhygienic(!)

Oh, God! Oh!

Oh! I'm not sure. I might just... Sorry.

-Get yourself in there.

-Oh!

HE GROANS

It's all these noises that keep coming out of him.

Oh! Oh! Oh!

LAUGHTER

Oh!

-HE GASPS

-I've done it.

You've only got nine and a half minutes left.

Oh!

He's actually a joy to be around. He's hilarious. He's sarcastic.

He makes jokes. So few people get to see that side of him.

He takes what he does unbelievably seriously.

He takes himself not seriously in any way.

Sorry to bother you, Andy, could I get a picture?

-Yeah, sure, no problem.

-Brilliant. What are you doing here?

Just meeting a friend.

-Can I just apologise?

-What for?

For what's just about to happen.

Sorry, do you mind if we get a photograph? He's a huge fan.

Yeah, you're my fourth favourite tennis player. No, fifth.

OK, anyway, I'm meeting a friend so...

Sorry, Andy, my stupid mates, they don't believe you're Andy Murray

cos I think the picture we took doesn't really look like you.

Maybe cos you were smiling.

Do you reckon there's any chance we could do another one

where you try and look more you?

Like emo, yeah?

-OK.

-All right, thanks.

I know Andy a little bit off the court

and he's a real likeable, easy-going kind of guy

and on the court he seems incredibly moody

and slightly unpredictable.

He's feisty. He's competitive.

He's angry often, because he wants to win.

You've not done anything the whole match.

You just sat there and called the score.

He could sulk with the best of them at times and, you know,

he had a few incidents on the court but, you know, who doesn't?

But he was just playing at incredibly high level

at an incredibly young age.

His way of blowing some steam was to yell at his entourage

and berate himself

and get sort of to the point where it became negative.

I get annoyed watching him sometimes

when here's kind of in that frame of mind

and you just kind of want to shake him a bit.

But I think, certainly in the last two years or so,

he's made a conscious effort to improve on that.

I would like him to do none of that. He still does some, of course,

but he's not going to change all the way.

But the less he does of that, the better he usually plays.

He's been on me for that during practices and in matches,

all the time when I've been with him,

about just trying to look forward, forget the past.

And also, for me,

if, tactically, or I'm good at working matches out,

if you're getting angry and worrying about what's happened in the past,

you can't use one of your best assets.

Late August last year,

the start of the fourth and last of the Grand Slam events of 2012.

There to watch - fellow Scots.

Sir Sean Connery, Sir Alex Ferguson.

A friend of mine says,

"Look, do you fancy going to the semifinal?" And I saw Judy Murray

down in their box and I texted her and I says,

"I'm right above you, watching your every move.

"Fingers crossed. Bye-bye-bye."

She texts me back and says, "Can we come up and see you after?"

We went up to his friend's box and had a glass of wine with him

and he wanted to go down and see Andy.

And I bump into Connery

and he's in ebullient mood.

And he said, "Where's Andy, Judy? Where's Andy?"

And I said, "He's in media.

"We're going to go along and just wait outside the media room."

Physically it was, while not the most tiring match...

'So we went to the press room

'and I was quite happy to stand outside the press room.'

And Sean said, "Well, I want to see Andy!

"Come on, Alex, let's just go in." And I was like, "Oh, no."

And they just opened the door and went in

and invaded the press conference. It was just the funniest thing.

APPLAUSE

He says to his mother, to Judy, "Have you been drinking?"

You smell of wine.

LAUGHTER

She says, "It's him." She blamed me.

"It was Alex's fault," I said, "He made me have one." You know,

to have two great Scottish icons like that, you know,

just so excited about what he was doing, I mean, that was just huge.

Well done.

In the final, an old friend and rival.

We played a first official match, I remember,

a 12-and-under tournament in France.

He won quite comfortably.

It's very nice to see the evolution of the player

and the person that you know for such a long time.

You're talking about a pretty unique time in our history.

It was sort of a magical time tennis-wise.

I think there's an argument to make that Nadal and Federer

are the two greatest players that ever played.

Djokovic is starting to crash the party.

Murray has had to work exceptionally hard just to sort of stay level,

even have a chance against these guys.

I see somebody that's pretty darn gifted.

A guy that has every right to be out there

playing against arguably the best three, two for sure, of all time.

Always the British players ask me a lot of times

if Andy was ready to win a Grand Slam and I always say, "Yes, he is."

There remained the serious business of finishing the job.

This was his second Grand Slam final of the summer. His fifth in total.

He had yet to emerge from any as the winner.

Of all the players that I've been around,

he, to me, has the most pressure.

After several of these losses, it looked like, you know,

he was extremely down and having trouble handling it.

I felt the least confident I'd felt going into a Grand Slam final.

I was incredibly nervous.

COMMENTARY: Murray in the lead at the US Open final.

I felt good about that match throughout the match,

because Andy kept making Novak work for every point.

For any top sportsman, it requires more than ability.

It requires having a belief in yourself,

a passion and desire to get over the line.

Watching something when it's live,

it's like the greatest performance, you know,

and it had crescendos and it built

and it was magical and it was lyrical.

-COMMENTARY:

-If Andy Murray is to win his first major,

he's got to go all the way. All the way into a fifth set.

I don't normally go for toilet breaks that much,

but, I mean, I think we'd been playing about four hours

by that stage.

I was thinking about having lost in finals before.

I was thinking, you know,

no-one had ever lost their first five Grand Slam finals.

I was just thinking about what happened at Wimbledon.

You know, was I going to be able to win this one?

If he loses this from two sets up, how do we bring him back from this?

And particularly after the Wimbledon final,

where he was absolutely devastated,

I mean, really devastated.

I splashed some water on my face, I spoke to myself.

I told myself out loud, you know,

that I wasn't going to let this happen. Forget what's happened.

Give 110% and fight as hard as you can

for every single point in this set.

And his shots got better in the fifth set.

I was just willing him on because I thought he had a chance, you know.

It was just these incredible moments where you know it's someone's time.

COMMENTARY: Murray for the US open.

It's out! And Andy Murray has won his first Grand Slam.

There was a sense of relief for him, you know,

that he'd actually got the monkey off his back, as they call it.

It was so tense through the whole thing.

If he manages to win another one,

I hope I'll manage to enjoy it a bit more!

He always had a fantastic game getting to the Grand Slam finals,

but he wasn't able to make that final step

and then I think the confidence

that he got out of that US Open win was immense.

I think he deserved to win after everything,

after being in that position a lot of times,

just very close to make it.

It's the first thing that he won and I was very happy.

Maybe he should take more loo breaks, you know.

It's a good strategy.

I had been so sad, like, after Wimbledon.

The Olympics, I was so happy and then with the US Open,

it was completely different. I wasn't bouncing off the walls.

-I couldn't sleep.

-You slept on the plane, didn't you, on the way back?

-I slept on the plane.

-Because he had some champagne.

-Yeah.

Everyone asks, "Oh, has Andy ever gotten drunk?"

And I always say the only time he did

was on the way back from the US Open.

I fell asleep cos I was so tired

and I woke up and he was like, "Oh, I've had a few glasses of champagne.

"You'll never guess what I've just done.

"I went to the toilet to brush my teeth

"and I used face cream by accident."

I think it shows you're a little bit of a lightweight.

Maybe the altitude made it worse.

I dreamt after Wimbledon that I'd won Wimbledon

and then I woke up and I hadn't, and I was gutted.

And then after the US Open,

I was sleeping on the couch and I dreamt that I had lost

and I woke up and then, like,

when I realised I had won,

I think that was when it started to sink in

and I started to enjoy it a bit more.

We had... A lot of our friends and family came round.

People that I had worked with,

coaches that I'd worked with all through my career, and that was good.

2013 - wonder year plus one.

Runner-up at the Australian Open, two Tour wins, all was going well.

Until down he went with a back injury.

It meant he missed the red clay of the French.

When I realised I was going to have to pull out of the French Open,

you then understand how much those tournaments mean to you.

Now I'm going to be even more strict with the rehab and all the treatments

and stuff that I get for it

so hopefully it doesn't happen again.

On the green grass of home, it was as if he had never been away.

COMMENTARY: That's it. Third title at Queen's Club.

The public Andy Murray - and the other Andy Murray.

There was more tennis that day, in aid of his friend

and fellow player Ross Hutchins.

We're playing an exhibition match

right after we're done with this nonsense.

LAUGHTER

My best friend over there, Ross Hutchins,

he was diagnosed with cancer.

People in his team around me told me that the news was difficult,

but, to me, he was, you know, as you would expect, very tough.

His first thing was, you know,

"You're going to dominate this, come through it and be better after."

I know it's maybe a cliche and what everyone says,

but actually the way someone says it to you means you can hear it

sort of in their voice and what they say.

One thing that was noticeable that he did,

which he does whether it's fantasy football,

whether it's scouting opponents when he was younger,

is he researches things.

And the next day he was talking about

sportsmen that have come through cancer,

the cure rate of my cancer, the treatments.

He just researches things.

Andy and Tim Henman against Tomas Berdych and coach Ivan Lendl

to raise money for the Royal Marsden Hospital.

MURRAY GRUNTS

CHEERING

-COMMENTARY:

-He got it.

HE LAUGHS

Yes!

MURRAY GRUNTS

UMPIRE: Game, set and match, Great Britain.

-The double. Well done this week. Good luck next week.

-Thanks a lot.

He has helped me so much in coming through this whole cancer treatment.

He won't even know he's helping me.

An unconventional twist at the end of the tennis day.

But that is what he is.

This is Andy Murray - behind his racquet.

I mean, he is growing up all the time.

He's a young man now, he's not a young kid

and he was a young kid with millions of people looking at him.

If you really think back to when we were kids and stuff,

when we were practising in Dunblane,

we would never have thought we would be getting to do this for a living.

You never would have believed that you would be coming back

with both of your sons having won Grand Slams.

Having won the Open,

the press over in Britain are going to be focusing more on Wimbledon

and, "Oh, he has got to win Wimbledon."

I just hope it's only the beginning.

Defeat, failure, falling on your face,

falling on your ass

are the only things that teach you how to win.

MUSIC: "Keep Your Head Up" by Ben Howard

# Oh, oh, All I was searching for was me

# Oooh, yeah

# Keep your head up Keep your heart strong

# No, no, no, no

# Keep your mind set Keep your hair long

# Oh, my, my darling

# Keep your head up Keep your heart strong

# No, no, no, no

# Keep your mind set in your ways

# Keep your heart strong. #

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