• Aurstralian Open mixed doubles finalist aiming for eight titles• Pairing with flamboyant Bethanie Mattek-Sands has paid offIt is a curiosity of Jamie Murray’s tennis career that, as promising as he was as a young boy – some say better than his younger brother, Andy, when he was about 12 – he has become one of the most accomplished doubles players of the past 15 years.
If he and Bethanie Mattek-Sands, the flamboyant
American, beat the fifth seeds, Barbora Krejcikova and Nikola Mektic, in the mixed doubles final on Saturday, Murray will own eight grand slam titles in pairings – five more majors than Andy – six of them in mixed doubles, the last two of three at Flushing Meadows with Mattek-Sands. They obviously click on court.