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Tennis star Andy Murray is a dad!
Wife Kim Sears Murray gave birth to a daughter on Sunday, Feb. 7.
“Andy and Kim had a daughter in a early hours of Sunday morning and a family are doing well,” a repute tells a BBC in a statement.
Murray’s maternal grandmother, Shirley Erskine, suggested she perceived a happy news around text.
“We didn’t know what a baby’s sex was going to be,” she told BBC Scotland. “Andy and Kim pronounced from a ouset that they didn’t wish to know … It was good to get a small warn like that — it’s a girl!”
She adds, “They know we are here and they know that we would adore to see them. I’m utterly certain that if he can fit a outing adult in, I’m certain he will.”
The couple, who married during Dunblane Cathedral in Scotland in April and confirmed to PEOPLE they were expecting in August, were detached for a final weeks of Sears’ pregnancy as Murray reached a final of a Australian Open in January.
Dunblane baby love……..xxx pic.twitter.com/Lz8DNIt0Sb
— judy murray (@judmoo) February 9, 2016
Shortly after his detriment in a Australian Open final to universe No.1 Novak Djokovic, a rarely romantic Murray, 28, paid reverence to his mother in an on-court interview.
“To my mother Kim. She’s going to be examination behind home only now. You’ve been a fable a final dual weeks,” a Scot told tennis fans during a Rod Laver Arena in Melbourne. “Thanks for all your support and I’ll be on a subsequent moody home.”
He was good as his word: The Scot cut brief his media duties to locate a 1 a.m. moody out of Melbourne’s Tullamarine Airport and conduct to a family home in Oxshott, Surrey.
“She has been amazing. Handled all unbelievably well,” Murray told reporters before he raced to a airport. “I have to appreciate her for permitting me to play and stay here with all that was going on.”
The birth of baby Murray caps an romantic integrate of weeks for a World No. 2. Midway by a Australian Open his father-in-law Nigel Sears was certified to a sanatorium with serious cardiac issues, call a Scot to cruise abandoning a Grand Slam contest for a initial time ever.
“A lot’s been going on,” Murray told reporters in his post-match comments. “It was a formidable one. It was close. I’ve never been in that position before, so it’s as tighten as I’ve been to withdrawal a Grand Slam. Thankfully he’s excellent now. Yeah, we only wish to get home.”
Among initial congratulations to a new relatives was a twitter by Scotland’s First Minister Nicola Sturgeon: “Lovely news. Congratulations to @andy_murray and Kim on a birth of their daughter. Wishing each happiness.”
Lovely news. Congratulations to @andy_murray and Kim on a birth of their daughter. Wishing each happiness. https://t.co/cDAQjVUbgA
— Nicola Sturgeon (@NicolaSturgeon) February 9, 2016
The Daily Telegraph reports that bookie Coral has already offering contingency of 250/1 on baby Murray winning Wimbledon within 30 years.
But Murray’s mom, Judy Murray, has pronounced she won’t be pulling a new further out on a court.
“Children can start personification tennis with mini racquets from age of three,” she told Hello! magazine. “But we don’t consider we could go by all that nurturing of talent again. It takes years of loyalty and sacrifice, and now we only wish to suffer time with my family.”
She added, “I’m unequivocally looking brazen to a new baby, my initial grandchild. When it happens, we shall be an active granny. As we get older, we comprehend that life is brief and so I’ve motionless that it’s time for me to delayed down … I’m indeed looking brazen to slicing behind on my work and spending some-more time with my parents, and yes, a new baby.”
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