Sir Andy Murray being not just the hero we wanted, but the hero we needed. A thread :

Let’s begin when Andy appointed Amélie Mauresmo as his coach. In L’Équipe 2015, Andy addressed some of the heat Mauresmo was getting for his losses, which his male coaches had never experienced. He then identifies himself as a feminist, and celebrates growing up around women.

Around the same time, Andy spoke to Red Bulletin — there he talked about his working relationship with Mauresmo, and how working with her made him more passionate about getting women more opportunities and pushing for gender equality in sport.

After Katarina Johnson-Thompson’s gold medal win at the European Indoor Championships in 2015, Andy took to Twitter to express his disgust at the minimal attention the story was getting on the BBC website.

After Andy won his second consecutive singles gold medal in 2016, he shut down John Inverdale’s comment that he was “the first person ever to win two Olympic tennis gold medals” mentioning both Venus and Serena Williams

When former Indian Wells CEO Raymond Moore’s abhorrent remarks surrounding equality in tennis forced him to resign in 2016, Andy directly addressed them. He expressed his disappointment in Moore’s views as well as the timing in which these views were expressed.

In 2017, Andy was among a few of the high-profile figures to sign a letter sent to former UK Prime Minister, Theresa May, urging her *not* to prioritise Brexit negotiations over environmental and climate-related issues.

Andy’s comments on gay marriage in RG17

When Wimbledon 2017 top seed and world no. 1 Angelique Kerber was put on No. 2 Court vs Muguruza, and Ostapenko who had just won RG was put on an outside court, Andy reinforced the need for there to be an equality in scheduling.

Andy claps back at a journalist who incorrectly says that Sam Querrey was the first US player to make a major semifinal since 2009. *MALE PLAYER*

Andy wrote an essay for the BBC in which he talked about playing mixed sports at an early age and more equality and female role models arising in traditionally male-dominated sports.

When Ada Hegerberg was asked to twerk after her Ballon d’Or win, Andy posted these stories slamming the blatant sexism that still exists in sport.