Andy Murray is finding his balance between family life and his tennis future

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14 Nov, 2019

Simon Cambers

LONDON -- It is about half an hour by public transportation from London's O2, the venue for this week's ATP Finals, to Sloane Square in trendy central London. For many years, Andy Murray would have been at the O2 in mid-November, battling it out in the season-ending event, a title he won in 2016. On Tuesday, though, he was in the latter, launching a new range of clothing with one of his sponsors, and seemingly, just fine about it all.

"I actually haven't watched a ball," he said with a smile.

That might change as the week goes on, for Murray is as much a tennis addict as any of the top players. But while Novak Djokovic and Rafael Nadal scrap it out to be world No. 1 at the end of the year, the 32-year-old Murray has been focusing on family, fresh from the birth of his third child, and first son, Teddy.

"It's been good," he told a small group of reporters. "It's just busy. We've got three [children] under 4 now, and two dogs, so you've got to keep an eye out all the time, but it's been good, sleeping fine. Everyone's healthy."

Murray said his wife, Kim, chose the name Teddy, but the middle name is Barron just like Murray himself.

"I don't actually love the name," he said. "[But] my Dad's middle name was Barron, his dad was Barron, my granddad's dad [was Barron] so I kept that. But Teddy, my wife liked that so she chose it."