British doubles legend Jamie Murray retires from tennis

Murray will be remembered for his razor-sharp volleying skills and the preposterous angles he conjured at the net. His returns were often unorthodox and he was fond of a lobbed service return to unsettle opponents.

Alongside his triumphs, Murray has been a staunch defender of doubles players and frequently demanded they be shown more respect.

"Doubles has its place in the game - it's not the golden ticket that singles is, but it's undervalued by the tour," Murray told BBC Sport.

"As these events go longer and longer they need content, and doubles supports that."

Murray said he was proud to have represented his hometown of Dunblane and the country of Scotland at the highest level.

"There is no history of tennis and no environment of tennis [in Scotland]," Murray told BBC Sport.

"I'd imagine the odds were against us from the start but we were able to make some good things happen."

His mother Judy thought Jamie had the better hand-eye co-ordination of her sons when young. Jamie and Andy briefly became rivals as tennis players - and also while wrestling.

Judy once recalled: "Andy's favourite [wrestler] was The Rock and Jamie's was Stone Cold Steve Austin, and they used to create these bouts that they saw on the television. They used to wrestle each other on the duvet and thump each other with pillows, and create these belts and make up their own rules and scoring systems."

Jamie is 15 months older than Andy, and as his early dominance on the tennis court started to fade Andy says he quite literally bore the brunt.

"We were coming back from Solihull in the minibus and I'd beaten Jamie in the final, I think, of the under-12s, so basically I was winding him up about that and my hand was on the hand rest," he said in 2015.

"We were sitting next to each other and he just basically punched me on the hand - I lost my fingernail and I've still got the scars to show for it."

Despite some defeats against Andy, Jamie was still very much on track for a professional singles career until a negative experience at an LTA training school in Cambridge in his very early teens.

He struggled with living away from home and the elite training environment, and even though he has never sought to blame the LTA, his forehand suffered and he has said he was never quite the same player again.