Top 5 amazing Andy Murray stats, No. 3: Winning a Grand Slam title, the Olympics and ATP Finals in the same year

On Tuesday, Andy Murray announced that the Paris Olympics would be the final tennis tournament of his career. To celebrate his legacy, we’re counting down five of his most amazing career stats, one a day, until the tournament begins on Saturday.

So far, we’ve covered how he became the first British man to win a Grand Slam title in 76 years, as well as how he’s the only tennis player ever to beat each of the Big 3 seven or more times each.

Today, a historic trifecta of big titles.

Winning a Grand Slam title, the Olympics and ATP Finals in the same year

In 2016, Murray put together the best season of his career—he compiled a 78-9 win-loss record, the most wins he’s ever had in a single year in his career, and picked up a total of nine titles, also a career-high, at Rome, Queen’s Club, Wimbledon, the Olympics, Beijing, Shanghai, Vienna, Paris and the ATP Finals. He also finished the year at No. 1 on the ATP rankings.

There's something historic in his list of titles that year, too.

Murray was, and still is, the only tennis player ever to win a Grand Slam title, the Olympics and the ATP Finals in the same year.

Others have won two of the three—Rafael Nadal won the Olympics and two Grand Slam titles in 2008, Alexander Zverev won the Olympics and the ATP Finals in 2021, and plenty of players have won a Grand Slam title and the ATP Finals in the same year—but Murray’s the only one to win all three.

And Murray’s incredbile feat goes even further, actually, as in 2016 he not only won a Grand Slam title at Wimbledon, the Olympics in Rio de Janeiro and the ATP Finals in London, but he won the two other biggest levels of ATP event too, picking up three Masters 1000 titles and three ATP 500 titles.

MURRAY’S CROSS-LEVEL SWEEP IN 2016:
1 Grand Slam title [Wimbledon]
1 Olympic gold medal
1 ATP Finals title
3 Masters 1000 titles [Rome, Shanghai, Paris]
3 ATP 500 titles [Queen’s Club, Beijing, Vienna]

He had played any ATP 250s that year, he might’ve had the complete set of tour-level titles at every level.

The Sir Andy stats countdown continues tomorrow with No. 2…