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Andy Murray’s career in numbers

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Andy Murray has confirmed he will end his tennis career after this summer’s Olympics.

The 37-year-old will go down not just as the best British player of all time but one of the greats of the strongest era in men’s tennis.

Here, the PA news agency picks out the key numbers of Murray’s career.

1 – Murray became the first British singles player ever to officially be ranked world number one on November 7, 2016.

41 – the number of weeks the Scot spent on top of the rankings.

3 – grand slam titles.

77 – his 2013 title made him the first British man to win the Wimbledon singles title for 77 years, since Fred Perry in 1936.

11 – grand slam finals.

46 – career singles titles.

3 – doubles titles.

9 – singles titles in 2016, including five in a row to end the season as world number one.

2 – Olympic singles gold medals, in addition to a mixed doubles silver with Laura Robson.

Great Britain’s Andy Murray with his gold medal following victory in the men’s singles final at the Olympic Tennis Centre in Rio (Owen Humphreys/PA) (PA Archive)

11 – Murray won all 11 rubbers he contested to drive Great Britain to Davis Cup glory in 2015, an unprecedented feat.

739 – tour-level matches won.

64,677,584 – career prize money, in US dollars.

3 – only person to be named BBC Sports Personality of the Year three times.

29 – combined wins against Roger Federer, Rafael Nadal and Novak Djokovic.

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