Like all modern British tennis players, the Murray brothers grew up under the shadow of Fred Perry. The gangling Glaswegians Jamie and Andy must have grown quite weary of the constant reminders that no Briton had won Wimbledon, nor any Grand Slam title, since Perry in 1936. Seldom mentioned among Perry's accomplishments is his 1929 world table tennis title. Sixty years before Bo Jackson and Deion Sanders, Perry was a pioneering multi-sport athlete. For Jamie and younger brother Andy Murray, however, it has been all tennis, all the time since beginning their junior careers in the late 1990s. Both topping out at 6'3", each has grown into an imposing tennis figure in his own right. The left-handed Jamie became a doubles specialist, winning the 2016 Australian and US Open titles with Brazil's Bruno Soares. It was younger brother Andy, however, who single-handedly swatted the monkey off Great Britain's back with his two-handed backhand, winning the US Open in 2012 to break the 76-year drought. Andy added two Wimbledon singles titles, not to mention two Olympic gold medals, cementing himself in the contemporary "Big Four" along with Federer, Nadal and Djokovic. Although an abundantly talented tennis tactician, Andy Murray's own body began to plot against him. Plagued by a rare patellar defect since birth, he also developed debilitating hip problems as he turned thirty. Two hip surgeries later, Murray has watched from home as his fellow "Big Four" players have become the three most prodigious Grand Slam winners of all time. While he may be down, it would be foolish to count Andy Murray out. As a recent video documenting his brother Jamie's journeyman journey revealed, Andy is not only alive and well, but still training at The All England Lawn Tennis and Croquet Club (you know, the home of Wimbledon). Jamie's cell phone video captured evidence of a lively rally between the rival siblings, Andy's backhand as sharp as ever (although adapted to hit with only one hand). With 38-year-old Roger Federer still competing for Grand Slam titles, a healthy 32-year-old Murray could certainly rejoin the race. In any case, it appears that he and Jamie can eventually transition to their budding table tennis careers, like Fred Perry's trajectory in reverse. Of course, then someone will have to tell them that no Briton has won the World Table Tennis Championship since Johnny Leach in 1951.

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