Jamie Murray retires after trailblazing career as Britain's doubles number one

Jamie Murray has retired from professional tennis after a career that did more than fill a trophy cabinet. He helped turn doubles from a specialist corner of the sport into a headline act in Britain, becoming the first British doubles player to reach world No. 1 and building a record that stood apart even within the Murray family name.

The 40-year-old’s last match came at the 2025 US Open, where he and Ivan Dodig lost in the opening round of men’s doubles to Rafael Matos and Marcelo Melo. Murray said his tennis journey had come to an end after 36 years and that he was “excited to enter the real world.” His numbers underline the scale of the career: seven Grand Slam titles, 34 ATP Tour doubles titles and 1,019 ATP Tour-level matches.

Murray’s biggest results came when British doubles had rarely been treated as a national spectacle. He won two men’s doubles majors with Bruno Soares, at the 2016 Australian Open and the 2016 US Open, and added five mixed doubles majors. He contested 13 men’s doubles Grand Slam finals in all, a run that gave him a sustained presence on the sport’s biggest stages and made him a familiar figure long after singles headlines had moved elsewhere.

His breakthrough to world No. 1 in doubles in 2016 carried a broader significance for British tennis. It was the first time a British player had reached the top of the modern doubles rankings, and it came in the same year he and younger brother Andy Murray became the first brothers to hold world No. 1 rankings in singles and doubles at the same time. Andy Murray’s singles success was already established; Jamie Murray’s rise ensured doubles had its own place in the national conversation.

Murray’s influence stretched beyond the tour. He made his ATP Tour debut in Nottingham in 2006, represented Great Britain in 20 Davis Cup ties between 2007 and 2019, and played a pivotal role in the country’s 2015 Davis Cup triumph, Britain’s first in 79 years. In Ghent, he and Andy Murray won the decisive doubles rubber against Steve Darcis and David Goffin as Britain moved 2-1 ahead in the final.

He also played four Olympic Games, in Beijing, London, Rio de Janeiro and Tokyo, and was awarded an OBE in 2016 for services to sport and charity. The LTA called it a “historic career,” and Scott Lloyd said Murray’s more than 1,000 tour-level matches, seven Grand Slam titles, Davis Cup glory and world No. 1 ranking spoke for themselves. Murray will return to his role as tournament director at the HSBC Championships at Queen’s Club this summer, leaving doubles in Britain with a far higher profile than when he found it.