Will Wimbledon be followed by wedding bells? Kim has loved Andy for seven years and now the talk is of an off-法廷,裁判所 happy ever after
At the moment of victory, sheer unbounded Grand 激突する-sized joy was written all over the 直面する of girlfriend Kim Sears.
That enviable mane of glossy hair was whipped by the 勝利,勝つd into a golden 栄冠を与える as Murray made his way, shoeless, to embrace her very much as he did after winning Olympic gold at Wimbledon last month.
Later he 提起する/ポーズをとるd with his 武器 around Kim and the cup ? やめる a 示す of devotion.
Wedding bells? Andy Murray stayed on soft drinks as he and girlfriend Kim Sears celebrated his victory with a meal at New York's Hakkasa n restaurant
Kim has loved Andy for seven years and now the talk is that they will find the time to formalise an off-法廷,裁判所 happy ever after, too. Perhaps a wedding after Wimbledon next summer.
When asked recently about such rumours, Murray demurred: 'I have no 計画(する)s to get married 権利 now. I am still 公正に/かなり young. But we'll see.'
It was a half admission. If true, it would delight all his family and his team of coaches, moneymen and 助言者s because Kim is universally recognised as a perfect tennis wife.
By her background ? her father is a 主要な tennis coach ? and by virtue of her polite, uncomplaining nature, she is 井戸/弁護士席 fitted to a supporting 役割. She doesn't chafe at the 35 weeks a year which professional tennis players spend on the road.
Shy, polite and clever, she …に出席するs all major tournaments, but さもなければ spends most of her time at home in Surrey.
A typical 'tennis wife' 仕事 was to carefully 乾燥した,日照りの in an 公表/放送 cupboard the bouquet Andy was given after his Olympic 勝利,勝つ. It now hangs in her studio office.
You can do it! Kim Sears 勧めるs on Murray during his epic five setter
The versatile Kim is known for her 国内の 技術s ? making a mean sloe gin from berries 選ぶd by her mother.
She is 24 but looks younger ? in fact, she was asked to show her ID in her 地元の Waitrose in Cobham when buying a 瓶/封じ込める of spirits. And after dabbling in 事実上の/代理, fashion and design, and 重さを計るing up a career in publishing, she now makes portraits of dogs and cats for 豊富な owners.
Andy says approvingly: 'She wants to have her own career, not just 提起する/ポーズをとる in Hello! magazine.'
を待つing her return from New York are (売買)手数料,委託(する)/委員会/権限s for 絵s of a cat, a labradoodle and a labrador. (She's believed to 告発(する),告訴(する)/料金 about £1,500 per canvas.)
In love: Andy Murray with his girlfriend Kim Sears and the トロフィー at USTA Billie ジーンズ King 国家の Tennis 中心 in the 紅潮/摘発するing neighbourhood of New York
Andy Murray kisses Kim Sears after Murray 敗北・負かすd Roger Federer at the 2012 Summer Olympics
Kim 抱擁するs Judy Murray and Andy Murray's スパイ/執行官 as they celebrate his 勝利,勝つ at the US Open
Her website 誇るs several 陳謝s to 可能性のある (弁護士の)依頼人s for her backlog of work. She 作品 in the guest wing of the £5million home which she and Murray 株 in the footballer-and-stockbrokers 領土 of Oxshott, Surrey.
While Andy's daily life is travel, training, ice baths and Grand 激突するs, Kim's is a gentle 一連の会議、交渉/完成する of activities.
絵 aside, she takes daily walks with 国境 terriers Maggie May and Rusty. Recently she bumped into footballer John Terry's wife Toni, who was walking their bulldog.
The 裁判,公判s and tribulations of に引き続いて Andy: Kim has shed her fair 株 of 涙/ほころびs along the way
の近くに: Murray and Kim Sears at Wimbledon in May 2009
Andy Murray and Kim Sears arriving at two London Fashion Week events in September last year
Andy Murray and girlfriend Kim Sears watch boxer Amir 旅宿泊所 in London in 2008
Kim, who was an A-grade student at the 私的な Burgess Hill school in West Sussex, likes to listen to Classic FM, and drink tea.
An English literature 卒業生(する), her circle of friends 含む a cupcake パン職人 who has made special cakes decorated with pictures of Kim's dogs which she served Andy on the silver tray he got as Wimbledon 走者-up this year.
The resulting photos were then 地位,任命するd on Maggie May's Twitter page, which Kim runs. (Indeed, she has been asked if she will 令状 a 調書をとる/予約する in Maggie May's 指名する ? an 申し込む/申し出 she is considering.)
Happier now: Their 関係 has been so 騒然とした in the past (left pictured in 2008) that they 分裂(する) up but they 結局 解決するd their differences
Kim Sears looks to the big 審査する with her 手渡すs clasped together as a point is challenged
Kim Sears, girlfriend of Andy Murray, takes a photo with her Union 旗 covered 動きやすい phone に引き続いて his 勝利,勝つ in the U.S. Open
Kim Sears, girlfriend of Andy Murray, watches his men's final match against Serbia's Novak Djokovic at the U.S. Open
Andy's mum Judy always stays with the couple during the Queen's Club and Wimbledon tournaments in the 早期に summer.
The two women are 会社/堅い friends and Judy doesn't see it as a slight that Andy embraced Kim before her a fter both his Olympic and US Open victories.
Kim is so 甘い-natured that she is happy to put up with anything that makes Andy happy.
The couple met when she was still a 十代の少年少女 in the sixth-form. Her father Nigel was the 長,率いる of UK women's tennis coaching and she was visiting him at a tournament in America. Andy 支持を得ようと努めるd her with flowers and texts.
They moved in together in 2009, but then 分裂(する) 簡潔に for six months ? to give each other 'space'. Both of them were 哀れな apart.
In the 早期に days, she used to 行為/法令/行動する as his chauffeur because he couldn't 運動 ? he bought her a £40,000 Mercedes as a thank you.
An associate who had dinner with the couple recently said: 'Kim's just a lovely, young middle-class girl. She is very 甘い and やめる shy.'
How long, then, before Andy Murray 提案するs a romantic game of (テニスなどの)ダブルス at the altar?
VIDEO: A happy man. Murray looked delighted, 提起する/ポーズをとるing with his US Open トロフィー in New York?
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