More tickets released for Wimbledon winners Sir Andy Murray and brother Jamie Murray's Scotland versus England tennis event in Aberdeen
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“We don’t want fans to miss out” says Jamie Murray as Battle of the Brits – Scotland versus England releases extra tickets.
Doubles supremo Murray and his brother Sir Andy Murray are set to lead the Scotland team against an England line-up featuring British No.1 Dan Evans when the event kicks off on December 21-22 at P&J Live in Aberdeen.
As expected, fans are jumping at the chance to see the Murrays play live in Scotland and be part of a unique two-day sports and entertainment event in the lead-up to Christmas.
Andy Murray is scheduled to feature in all three sessions across Tuesday 21 and Wednesday 22 December.
Wednesday evening’s session is completely sold out so tournament director Jamie Murray and his team are adding extra seating capacity for Wednesday night to meet the demand.
A small number of tickets are still available for the Tuesday evening and Wednesday afternoon sessions - see here.
“We want as many people to be part of this as possible,” said Jamie.
“Battle of the Brits – Scotland versus England is going to be really special for me and for Andy and hopefully for fans as well and we don’t want anyone to miss out.
I’m thrilled with how ticket sales are going. It’s been a tough year for so many people and I think everyone is excited be able to look forward to something fun like this.”
By the age of 12, Jamie Murray was one of the top three players in Europe alongside Rafael Nadal and Richard Gasquet.
He was a GB junior internationalist from the age of 10-17 and national 18 + under boys doubles champion in 2002.
He made the decision to concentrate on doubles as a career in 2006. The following year at the age of 21, he won his first Grand Slam title in the mixed doubles at Wimbledon with Jelena Jankovic.
Since then Jamie has gone on to claim 23 ATP doubles titles and captured two men’s Grand Slam doubles titles, at the Australian Open and the US Open in 2016 with current partner Bruno Soares.
He picked up another two mixed doubles Grand Slam titles in 2017 with Martina Hingis at Wimbledon and the US Open and most recently he partnered Bethanie Mattek-Sands at the 2018 and 2019 US Opens, his sixth and seventh Grand Slam victories.
He was also a key member of the GB team which won the Davis Cup in 2015.
Sir Andy Murray OBE is one of the most successful British sportsmen of all time.
He won his first Grand Slam title at the 2012 US Open then became the first British man to win the Wimbledon singles title in 77 years the following year.
He earned a second Wimbledon trophy in 2016 and is also the first man ever to win a gold medal for singles in back-to-back Olympic Games (2012 and 2016).
He has also won 46 ATP Tour titles, including the prestigious ATP World Tour Finals in 2016.
He is a five-time runner-up at the Australian Open and was also runner-up at the 2008 US Open and 2016 Roland Garros.
He ended the year No 1 in the world in singles in 2016 and joined forces with Jamie in Great Britain’s famous Davis Cup team victory in 2015.
He was knighted in 2017 having previously been made an OBE.
Dan Evans is currently Britain’s No.1 male tennis player, having hit a career-high ranking of 26 in the world in February of this year after winning his first ATP Tour title at the Murray River Open in Melbourne.
Nicknamed 'Evo', the 33-year-old played alongside the Murray brothers as part of Great Britain’s famous 2015 Davis Cup victory, where his eye-catching tennis and gritty, fighting spirit earned him a number of important singles wins for the team.
Evans’ best performance at a Grand Slam came at the 2017 Australian Open, where he reached the fourth round.
Details of more players to be released in the coming weeks.
