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ANDY MURRAY

Hugely talented, extremely hard working, humble, funny, smart, socially conscious, eloquent, inspirational, cultural icon. Pretty sure that's how Andy Murray would describe us. Just kidding. Andy doesn't really need an introduction, and his inclusion in our group of people who are inspirational Brits is self-explanatory. He's all of the above.

The Connor Brothers

Letter To My Younger Self

I started playing tennis when I was around four years old, mostly through my mum being a tennis coach and having a brother [top level doubles player Jamie] of similar age – there’s only 15 months difference between us. We used to do everything together. It was really nice to have a brother so close in age. Of course we had fights and arguments, but we had great times as well. We're quite different personalities. When we're together there's a sort of natural order of things. Jamie, being the older one, grew up

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