\u201cThat piqued my interest in doing something like this,\u201d Jamie adds. \u201cAndy got some amazing comments about it, because people see him in a different light. Away from a tennis court, enjoying himself, messing around. Even yesterday, I\u2019m talking to one of the runners [at the tournament] and he\u2019s like, \u2018Oh, when are you going to do a rematch with the Fore Bros?\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n
Is there a contradiction between this new project and Andy\u2019s stance on social media? Perhaps slightly, but then YouTube is more than just a smartphone-based medium. For anyone under 30, it is a rival to traditional TV. People watch it on all sorts of screens, including laptops or even desktop computers, often while they are supposed to be at work.<\/p>\n
Teenagers in particular should warm to the KSI connection. In an echo of American counterpart Jake Paul, this former public schoolboy has built up 55 million social media followers through a variety of YouTube pranks and stunts. Yet Andy Murray\u2019s own children \u2013 10-year-old Sophia, nine-year-old Edie, seven-year-old Teddy and five-year-old Lola \u2013 are unlikely to be viewing KSI\u2019s work in the short term. Murray says he is fully in support of the proposed social media ban for under-16s<\/a>, because \u201cit just removes a difficult part of parenting\u201d.<\/p>\n \u201cMy kids don\u2019t really watch YouTube and stuff,\u201d Murray adds. \u201cWe try and keep them off screens as much as we can, try and keep them outside, running around, playing sports and being active. They all like different stuff. Some of them do a bit of athletics, and they do all the school sports, like hockey, netball, cricket, a bit of football.\u201d<\/p>\n Judging by this description, Murray\u2019s progeny sound unlikely to extend the family\u2019s tennis dynasty, which started with mother Judy\u2019s rise to Scottish No 1 in the 1970s. But then, it is hard to think of many really high-profile tennis players who have put their children on the court, with the exception of Bjorn Borg and his son Leo (whose world ranking peaked at No 334 three years ago). Having spent so many years in isolation, they tend to recommend the collegiate vibes of team sports instead.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cThat piqued my interest in doing something like this,\u201d Jamie adds. \u201cAndy got some amazing comments about it,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1048784,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[4105],"tags":[5233,103117,93,79,1715,1068,34328,16,15,92120,1737],"class_list":["post-1048783","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tennis","tag-andy-murray","tag-jamie-murray","tag-sport","tag-sports","tag-standard","tag-tennis","tag-top-story","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-wimbledon-tennis","tag-youtube"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/116809756041816830","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1048783","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1048783"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1048783\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1048784"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1048783"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1048783"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1048783"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}