Colin Fleming

Colin Fleming (born 13 August 1984) is a British professional tennis player who specialises in doubles. He is currently ranked number 71 in the world, and is the British number 3 and Scottish number 2. He was selected for 2009 Great Britain Davis Cup team, and has since been a regular part of Britain's Davis Cup fixtures. Together with Jocelyn Rae, he won the gold medal in the mixed doubles at the 2010 Commonwealth Games in Delhi for Scotland.

He has reached fifteen ATP Tour doubles finals in his career winning seven of them: two in 2009, 2012 and 2013 and one in 2011. In 2011, he had his best doubles Grand Slam season to date reaching the quarterfinals of Wimbledon his best achievement in a Grand Slam tournament, and then two months later equalling it at the US Open. He has had a number of different partners, but primarily plays alongside his British compatriots, most notably Ross Hutchins, Jamie & Andy Murray, Ken Skupski and Jonathan Marray. Fleming's most successful partnership has been with Ross Hutchins, however whilst Hutchins was off the tour with illness, Fleming spent most of 2013 partnered by Marray.

Davis Cup

The Davis Cup is the premier international team event in men's tennis. It is run by the International Tennis Federation (ITF) and is contested annually between teams from competing countries in a knock-out format. It is described by the organisers as the "World Cup of Tennis", and the winners are referred to as the World Champion team. The competition began in 1900 as a challenge between Great Britain and the United States. By 2016, 130 nations entered teams into the competition. The most successful countries over the history of the tournament are the United States (winning 32 tournaments and finishing as runners-up 29 times) and Australia (winning 28 times, including four occasions with New Zealand as Australasia, and finishing as runners-up 19 times). The present champions are Great Britain who beat Belgium to win the title for the 10th time in 2015. It was Great Britain's first title in 79 years, and first in the open era. The win moved Great Britain to third on the all time winners list.

Andy Murray

Andrew Barron "Andy" Murray OBE (born 15 May 1987) is a Scottish professional tennis player, currently ranked World No. 2. He started playing tennis at the age of three, entered his first competitive tournament at age five and was playing league tennis by the time he was eight. He has reached at least the quarter-finals of all Grand Slam tournaments he has participated in since 2011, with the exception of the 2015 US Open. When he was 15, he moved to Barcelona to train at the Sánchez-Casal Academy. He won the junior US Open in 2004 and turned professional the following year. Murray has been ranked as British No. 1 since 27 February 2006. He achieved a top-10 ranking by the ATP for the first time on 16 April 2007, and reached a career peak of World No. 2 on 17 August 2009.

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