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Great Britain · born Liverpool, 1981 · right-handed · Wimbledon doubles champion 2012 as a wildcard with Frederik Nielsen, the first British winner since 1936
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2012
Wimbledon gentlemen's doubles title with Frederik Nielsen, as wildcards
76
Years since the last British winners, Pat Hughes and Raymond Tuckey in 1936
4
Five-set matches in the 2012 run, including the final
No. 15
Career-high doubles ranking, January 2013
2015
Newport grass title with Aisam-ul-Haq Qureshi
Jonathan Marray was born in Fazakerley, Liverpool, on 10 March 1981 and moved with his family to Sheffield at three. He did not start tennis until he was ten and played no junior Grand Slams, turned professional in 2000 and reached only No. 215 in singles before settling on doubles, mostly on the Challenger tour.
In 2012, aged 31 and with no ATP final behind him, he entered Wimbledon on a wildcard with the Dane Frederik Nielsen, and they won the title, beating the Bryan brothers in the semi-finals and Robert Lindstedt and Horia Tecau in a five-set final. The win took the pair to the ATP World Tour Finals in London, where they reached the semi-finals, and Marray to a career-high No. 15 in January 2013.
He made his Davis Cup debut at 32 in 2013, winning the doubles with Colin Fleming as Britain came back from 0-2 down to beat Russia. In 2015 he won titles at Chennai with Lu Yen-hsun and on grass at Newport with Aisam-ul-Haq Qureshi. He retired in February 2017.
| Wimbledon 2012 final | Unseeded wildcards with Frederik Nielsen, beat the fifth seeds Robert Lindstedt and Horia Tecau 4-6, 6-4, 7-6 (7-5), 6-7 (5-7), 6-3 on Centre Court, the day before Andy Murray's first Wimbledon singles final |
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| Wimbledon 2012 semi-final | Beat the defending champions Bob and Mike Bryan in four sets |
| Wimbledon 2012 earlier rounds | Five-set wins in the first round against Marcel Granollers and Marc López, in the third round and in the quarter-finals |
| Newport 2015 final | With Aisam-ul-Haq Qureshi, beat Nicholas Monroe and Mate Pavić 4-6, 6-3, 10-8 in the match tie-break |
| Wimbledon | ||
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| 2012 | Men's doubles | with Frederik Nielsen |
| Newport, Rhode Island | ||
| 2015 | Men's doubles Hall of Fame Open | with Aisam-ul-Haq Qureshi |
Leading grass titles only: the grass majors, tour-level grass events since 1968 and the leading grass championships before 1968. †single source; ‡ sources disagree. Roll of champions
"What a great honour. I just wanted to cherish every moment. Thanks to Freddie. It was meant to be."
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Wimbledon, June 2012
He and his usual partner, Adil Shamasdin, missed the cut for the main draw. Then he was offered the last wildcard and allowed to choose his partner. He picked Nielsen, a friend he had played with at the Nottingham Challenger a few weeks earlier, "which wasn't necessarily the right one with regard to the rankings since Freddy was even lower than me."
Source: We Are Tennis (BNP Paribas), June 2013Wimbledon 2012
"First round, five sets; last sixteen, five sets; quarter-final, five sets; it was like a comedy of repetition," he said. Before the semi-final he had never beaten the Bryans, because playing Challengers he had never met them.
Source: We Are Tennis (BNP Paribas), June 2013Centre Court, 7 July 2012
Straight after the final he said: "I've been saying to Freddie, I don't feel any different or anything. It's just like winning another tennis match. I suppose it will take time to sink in."
Source: The National, 8 July 2012Sheffield, 2013
A year later he said: "I'd been playing tennis for twelve years, but until then, no one recognized me in my own city, or even in my own club! While today, the whole British tennis world knows who I am: a Wimbledon champion."
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