By Andrew WarshawApril 11 - Andy Murray, the world's fourth-ranked tennis player, has said that winning

Four years ago in Beijing, Murray lost in the first round to Yen-Hsun Lu of Taiwan, ranked number 77

I was very nervous before I played, which normally tells you something of the significance of it,'' Murray

Queen's Club in London at a presentation to announce his five-year commitment to the AEGON Championships, Murray

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keen on link-up with Robson for London 2012August 2008: Murray promises to end a century of failure

By Mike RowbottomApril 4 - British rowers Andy Triggs Hodge and Pete Reed will almost certainly give

rowing – an event in which they have consistently been unable to defeat dominant New Zealanders Eric Murray

Here is Andy Murray without the scowl, one who actually wins major tournaments.

By Mike Rowbottom at Eton DorneyMarch 11 - Peter Reed and Andy Triggs Hodge (pictured) secured their

majestic performance from Reed and Triggs Hodge, their failure to beat the New Zealand pair of Eric Murray

the squad's training centre at Caversham.Tom Aggar (pictured), the reigning Paralympic champion beat Andy

earned in the four, which looks like being the lead crew once again this year given the frustration Andy

the Beijing 2008 four gold medallists – have encountered in trying to better the New Zealanders Eric Murray

By Mike RowbottomMarch 5 - New Zealand has selected its largest ever Olympic rowing team for London 2012, and with nine world champions in the squad there are realistic expectations of rich rewards at the Eton Dorney course.

he fell ill before the final, while the three-times world champion men's pair Hamish Bond and Eric Murray

, who have frustrated the British pair of Pete Reed and Andy Triggs Hodge at every turn, will seek their

We've just been training away as hard as possible," said Murray."

Among spotlit shoes resting on gobbets of Victorian cast iron machinery, Andy Baddeley, Tom Lancashire

Many observers of the sport envisage a similar move this year following the frustrating failure of Andy

, fours gold medallists in 2008, to dislodge the Kiwi pair who currently dominate their event, Eric Murray

By David GoldFebruary 13 - British tennis hopes may seem forever focused on Andy Murray, but the improving

By David GoldJanuary 4 - Britain's number one women's tennis player Elena Baltacha (pictured) does not believe that the quality of the tennis tournament at the London 2012 Olympic Games will be compromised by the close proximity of the event to Wimbledon, the highlight of the sport's calendar.

a matter of much contention.Some of the world's top players on the ATP tour, including Rafa Nadal, Andy

Murray, Roger Federer and Andy Roddick, complained of fatigue this year, with 20 weeks a year of playing

By David GoldJanuary 23 - Jordanne Whiley (pictured), Britain's youngest ever wheelchair tennis champion, is hoping to make it a summer to remember this year as she bids for glory at Wimbledon in July and then at the London 2012 Paralympic Games a few weeks later.

admires world number one Novak Djokovic (pictured), but says that she is not a fan of British number one Andy

Murray."

fan – I always watch him when I can and I was with him at the Australian Open when he won [against Murray

I know Murray is British but I'm not a fan of him, I don't like his aura."

the rest are: Mo Farah 11-1, Luke Donald 16-1, Alastair Cooke 50-1, Andrew Strauss, Dai Greene 125-1, Andy

Murray, Amir Khan 200-1.The cyclist's position in the betting is so far ahead in the betting that a

By Mike RowbottomDecember 8 -The final three contenders for the BBC's Young Sports Personality of the Year title have been announced, and, as with the main award, all are of the same sex.

Previous winners include Tom Daley, Andy Murray, Wayne Rooney (pictured), Simmonds and Theo Walcott.Garner

By David GoldDecember 6 - Jenny Meadows and Caroline O'Connor (pictured), two key British medal prospects at the London 2012 Olympic Games, have expressed their disappointment at the lack of a single woman on the BBC Sports Personality of the Year award shortlist.

Cavendish, Rory McIlroy, Luke Donald, Mo Farah, Andrew Strauss, Alastair Cook, Amir Khan, Dai Greene, Andy

Murray and Darren Clarke were nominated by the panel of newspaper and magazine editors who voted.Freestyle

By David GoldOctober 4 - The winner of the men's and women's singles competitions at the 2012 Australian Open will each pocket $2.3 million (£1.5 million/€1.7 million), meaning that the tournament is set to be the most lucrative in the history of Grand Slam tennis.

You can never discount a great champion like Roger Federer and Andy Murray is desperate to break through

By David GoldSeptember 3 - Katherine Grainger and Anna Watkins took gold at the World Rowing Championships on Saturday, Britain's first in an Olympic class since the event began.

Another pair of reigning champions, Hamish Bond and Eric Murray of New Zealand, took gold ahead of British

duo Andy Triggs Hodge and Pete Reed in the pairs, whilst Alan Campbell had to settle for bronze in the