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http://0rz.tw/674lh 點網址有幾張圖可看，女友還蠻漂亮的 So who is the girl who knows how to cope with Andy Murray's famous sulks and is making him human...? (Well almost) By Antonia Hoyle Last updated at 9:54 PM on 28th June 2008 Sipping slowly on a glass of iced water in the players’ box at Wimbledon last week, Kimberley Sears looked every inch a wealthy young woman with the world at her feet. Designer sunglasses held back her strategically streaked caramel highlights, a star-shaped diamond twinkled seductively against her sun-kissed decollete and a clinging cream sweatshirt emphasised her enviable curves. In short, she slotted seamlessly into the heart of the tennis world’s most exclusive entourage. As well she might. Because not only does she possess the kind of understated looks that make other young women weep with envy, she is also dating Andy Murray, the tournament’s No12 seed who yesterday kept British hopes alive by beating German Tommy Haas and sailing into the fourth round. Kim, as her friends call her, is only too aware that, for this week at least, all eyes will be on her as much – if not more – than they are on her talented boyfriend. Not that she has any aspirations to remodel herself as the next Victoria Beckham, or lesser-known tennis wives such as Lucy Henman. The very thought would make her recoil in horror. Dismissing the idea of notoriety for its own sake, she says crisply in her succinct, privately educated Sussex vowels: ‘It’s not about me, it’s about Andy.’ Yet Kim – an English student at Brighton University who has expressed an ambition to become an actress but has as yet done nothing about it – should give herself more credit for her boyfriend’s success. In the space of two-and-a-half years she has transformed Andy from a volatile, sulky and occasionally offensive teenager (or, as Tim Henman put it, a ‘miserable git’) into a focused and considerably calmer 21-year-old who is already said to earn ￠G1million a year. ‘Kim has had a very stabilising influence on Andy,’ explains a well placed member of the tennis set. ‘She knows how to relax him, she gets on with his friends and she has a great sense of humour. 'She’s not the sort of person who hangs around after matches. She disappears and waits for him to call her. She knows how busy he can get.’ Andy was born in Dunblane, Perthshire, and now lives with Kim in a rented flat in South-West London. It is undoubtedly the way in which she puts Andy and his career first that has ensured they have survived the rocky, rollercoaster nature of tennis romances. ‘Both of them are well behaved and faithful to each other, which is very unusual among the younger players, who are always out partying,’ says a friend of the couple. ‘They don’t go out all the time and Kim is happy that Andy’s success totally eclipses her own life. She really is just a nice, normal person and not at all into being part of a celebrity couple. 'Andy’s not the easiest person to get on with, so he needs someone as relaxed and stable as her.’ Perhaps 20-year-old Kim’s most important credential, however, is her intricate knowledge of the cut-throat and competitive tennis world he inhabits, and the way in which – as Andy himself puts it – she ‘kind of gets it’. The daughter of Nigel Sears, the head of women’s tennis in Britain, Kim has grown up only too aware of the pressure young players are put under – and the devastating effect it can have on their personal relationships. When she was younger, her father would leave his family at their ￠G800,000 detached home in Barcombe, East Sussex, for up to six months at a time as he coached some of the world’s best women players. Kim and her brother Scott, now 18 and a promising junior player, would end their phone conversations with him with the poignant farewell: ‘See you in ages.’ Nigel, 51, has been married for 24 years to sales consultant Leonore, 46. And although his family describe him as ‘supportive’, it is hard to imagine that his absences have not had some effect on them. Kim was educated at the nearby ￠G18,000-a-year Burgess Hill School for girls and is remembered by her peers as a conscientious student with little penchant for typical teenage pastimes such as drinking and flirting. Indeed, she was 17 before she even considered her first serious relationship – with Andy. They met at the US Open in August 2005. Nigel had flown out his family for the tournament but it was not until December that year that friendship developed into flirtation. Andy was combining warm-weather training with a holiday with his then coach, Mark Petchey, in Cape Town. Coincidentally, the Sears family were also in the South African city because Nigel’s new protege, the Slovakian player Daniela Hantuchova, was training there too. Neil Broad, a former English tennis player with whom Petchey was lodging, was privy to the budding romance. ‘Kim and Andrew weren’t together that much,’ he says. ‘That’s why I didn ’t think it was that serious. They played with the younger kids on the beach and it looked more friendly than flirtatious. 'I don’t think they were a big item at that stage. I saw Andrew winning on television in the past few days and, yes, I guess I was surprised to see Kim in the box.’ In reality, however, no one was better placed to understand the complex and conflicting emotions that Andy, then just 18, had accumulated from his younger years. Although his father Willie was a newsagent and therefore removed from the tennis world, his older brother Jamie, now 22, was a keen player as a child and his mother Judy is a former Scottish national tennis coach. Jamie, of course, is now a leading doubles player and became the first Briton in 20 years to lift a senior Wimbledon title when he won the mixed doubles last year with the Serbian Jelena Jankovic. Andy started playing tennis at three and won his first junior tournament at 12. But although Judy coached him as a boy, the blurring of boundaries between mentor and mother did not agree with him and they parted professionally when he was 13. Andy admits: ‘I’d much rather have my mum as just my mum. But there is no way she was a pushy parent. She was important in developing my game but Dad was a big influence too. I really believe my family is more important than my career.’ It is a belief that Kim has been canny enough to appreciate – especially as Judy is not just a potential mother-in-law but still an indomitable and somewhat fearsome force in the sporting industry. As they sat together watching Andy play on Centre Court last week, it was clear Kim had won Judy’s approval. ‘Kim has been a great support and has even helped with Andy’s laundry,’ says Judy, adding with a wry smile: ‘The best thing Kim did was cut his hair – and he needed it.’ Having split up when Andy was eight, his parents finally divorced three years ago. ‘They didn’t speak too much and they didn’t get on too well together, ’ he says. ‘I would get stuck in the middle of their arguments and get really upset. One of the things I would have loved to have more than anything was a family that worked better together.’ His heartache fuelled both his ambition and his aggression and he sought sanctuary on the tennis court. ‘When I was younger and went on court, and was away from the arguments my parents were having, I could just go out and play,’ he says. Yet, reflecting his personal anguish, his infamous double-handed backhanders, colossal serves and perfectly timed drop shots became peppered with swear words, sulking and inappropriate comments. When asked if he would be supporting Scotland in the 2006 World Cup, he told a journalist: ‘I’ll be supporting anyone but England.’ He prompted further outrage the same year when, after beating Kenneth Carlsen in the 2006 Heineken Open, he announced: ‘We both played like women.’ Although Andy later insisted he had been joking, it is unlikely he would make such a gaffe nowadays. Not, at least, while he has the demure and eternally deferential Kim by his side. From the start, their relationship was touching in its simplicity. For her A-level art project, she painted a picture of the two of them. She helped him decorate his new flat and is said to have taken a gap year after her A-levels so she could accompany him on the tennis circuit – funded, presumably, by Andy. And inviting her to watch him play for the first time at the SAP Open in California in February 2006 proved something of a revelation. ‘It’s the first time Kim has come to a tournament,’ he explained at the time. ‘It made me quite relaxed. I’ll have to take her to some more.’ It was after beating Lleyton Hewitt there that Andy – wearing a lucky charm Kim had given him – infamously jumped over the advertising hoardings and climbed through the crowds to show her a heartfelt display of spontaneous affection. While the level-headed Kim dismisses it as ‘a bit of fuss over nothing’, Andy describes their lingering kiss as ‘kind of emotional’. He says: ‘It felt like the right thing to do. It was the best week of my life and I wanted to share it with someone. Kim says that is the most romantic thing I’ve ever done for her. Am I in love? I’ve never been in love before so I’ve got nothing to compare it to, but yes, I think so. We’ ve been together a long time now and we’ve not had any problems. ‘Although I get on really well with my coach and my agent, who I travel with, they’re a lot older than me. It’s great to have someone my age to talk to and be normal with when I get some time off. We just go to the movies and have fun.’ Indeed, normality appears to be the very essence of their relationship – and the reason Andy’s temper tantrums have tailed off. ‘Kim only has the occasional glass of wine and neither of them goes crazy,’ says a friend. ‘She normally travels with him to Miami for a training holiday every year. But rather than go on boozy benders, they’ll go to bed early after a quiet night in a restaurant.’ As Andy himself puts it: ‘I don’t drink or party or do anything silly. I’m quite boring. I finish a match and head to my room and go on the internet.’ He is doing his best to put his teenage rage behind him. ‘I’m much happier off the court than I was at this time last year,’ he said recently. ‘My life is running smoother, I feel more experienced and I’ve grown up. It helps having my girlfriend here. I’m more relaxed.’ Although the gangly 6ft 2in player isn’t exactly blessed with the steamy sexuality of Rafael Nadal or the wholesome good looks of Roger Federer, he is not about to exploit his success and become an uncaring cad either. ‘I don’t spend my time chatting up girls,’ he says. ‘And I do make the odd romantic gesture. ‘For example, I’ll sneak back and buy Kim something as a present if it has caught her eye in a shop. But then I’ll ruin the mood by saying something stupid when I give it to her.’ Nevertheless, he has won her father’s approval. ‘They get on really well together,’ says a mutual friend. Kim is said to be less concerned about becoming an actress than she is about dedicating herself to Andy’s career. Which may be just as well, because for all Andy’s recent reinvention, he is still prone to the odd outburst. Having two drama queens in the relationship would not make for a good love match. 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