GB RANKING18
WORLD RANKING988
CAREER HIGH
23/09/2013 165
ITF TITLES34
Last updated: 02/07/2025
GB RANKING12
WORLD RANKING216
CAREER HIGH
22/08/2022 76
ITF TITLES34
Last updated: 02/07/2025
FAVOURITE
SURFACE: Hard
COACH
David Sammel
AGE37
HEIGHT178 cm
PLAYSRight-handed
BACKHANDOne-handed
LTA SUPPORT Top 25
FAVOURITE
SURFACE:Hard
COACH
David Sammel
Get to know Sam Murray Sharan
About
Quick-fire facts
- Place of birth: Stockport
- Family: Parents are David and Catherine, siblings Neil, Peter and Amanda.
- Tennis beginnings: Started playing tennis age five.
Tennis Career
Highlights
- Lifted the biggest title of her career at the W100 Wiesbaden with Laura Pigossi
- Won the W50 Roehampton title with Freya Christie - defeating Ali Collins and Elena Malygina in the final 7-6(5), 6-3
- Battled through qualifying to reach the second round of the Oeiras Challenger in January
Results
| Tournament | Round |
| December | |
| Open BLS de Limoges (with Eden Silva) | Quarter-final |
| Open in Arte Angers Loire (with Eden Silva) | Semi-final |
| November | |
| W75 Trnava (with Eden Silva) | First round |
| Jiujiang Open (with Eden Silva) | First round |
| October | |
| Guangzhou Open (with Eden Silva) | First round |
| Kinoshita Group Japan Open (with Eden Silva) | First round |
| W100 Cornella de Llobregat (with Eden Silva) | First round |
| September | |
| Guadalajara Open (with Eden Silva) | Semi-final |
| Guadalajara 125 (with Eden Silva) | Quarter-final |
| US Open (with Camilla Rosatello) | First round |
| August | |
| Cleveland Open (with Eden Silva) | Semi-final |
| ECE Ladies Hamburg Open (with Elixane Lechemia) | Quarter-final |
| W75 Hechingen (with Emily Appleton) | First round |
| July | |
| Palermo (with Oksana Kalashnikova) | First round |
| Grand Est Open 88 (with Bibiane Schoofs) | Quarter-final |
| Wimbledon (with Eden Silva) | First roun |
| June | |
| Rothesay Classic Birmingham (with Eden Silva) | Quarter-final |
| Rothesay Open Nottingham (with Nao Hibino) | First round |
| Lexus Surbiton Trophy (with Eden Silva) | Quarter-final |
| May | |
| Grand Prix Son Altesse Royale La Princesse Lalla Meryem (with Katarzyna Piter) | First round |
| W100 Madrid (with Eden Silva) | Semi-final |
| W75 Prague (with Prarthana G Thombare) | First round |
| W100 Wiesbaden (with Laura Pigossi) | Champion |
| April | |
| Open Capfinances Rouen Metropole (with Katarzyna Piter) | Semi-final |
| W100 Zaragoza (with Katarzyna Piter) | First round |
| W75 Split (with Panna Udvardy) | First round |
| March | |
| ATX Open (with Jessika Ponchet) | First round |
| February | |
| W50 Roehampton (with Freya Christie) | Champion |
| Transylvania Open (with Oksana Kalashnikova) | Second round |
| January | |
| Adelaide International (with Angelica Moratelli) | Quarter-final |
November
Continuing to impress on her comeback to the tour, Murray Sharan and Georgia's Mariam Bolkvadze finished runners-up at the W25 Sunderland event after missing out in the final to Freya Christie and Elena Malygina, 6-0, 4-6, 10-4.
Barnett teamed up with fellow Brit Alicia Barnett for the W40 Petange event where the pair eased through to the final. In a battle for the title against compatriot, Ali Collins and Isabelle Haverlag, Murray Sharan and Barnett came out on top in the match deciding tie-break to clinch the silverware, 6-7(4), 6-1, 10-6.
October
Murray Sharan won her first title of the year when she teamed up with Australia's Olivia Gadecki for the W25 Baza event.
Competing in her first event of the season, Murray Sharan and Gadecki closed out the tournament with an impressive victory against Lea Boskovic and Angela Fita Boluda 7-5, 4-6, 10-4.
January
Started the season competing in both the singles and doubles of the Traralgon International but lost out in the first round of both events.
At the first Grand Slam of the year, Murray Sharan lost in the first round of Australian Open qualifying to Hailey Baptiste 6-1, 6-7, 7-6.
February
Playing alongside Mariam Bolkvadze, Murray Sharan won her first title of the season at the W60 Altenkirchen in February. The British, Georgian duo didn't drop a set all tournament and completed their flawless performance with a 6-3, 7-5 win over Susan Bandecchi and Simona Waltert.
March
In the Lyon Open, Murray Sharan and Ulrikke Eikeri beat Japanese pair, Eri Hozumi and Makoto Ninomiya, to make it through to the semi-finals, where they would just miss out on securing a place in the final after a tense tussle against fellow British duo, Alicia Barnett and Olivia Nicholls.
May
Murray Sharan reached an all-new career high with the help of partner, Xenia Knoll, defeating Suisse duo, Conny Perrin and Joanne Zuger in straight sets to earn her second ITF title of the year and a place in the top 100!
Murray Sharan partnered with Heather Watson ahead of the French Open, coming out victorious in the opening round before bowing out of the tournament in a 6-2, 7-6(6) defeat against Marta Kostyuk and Elena Gabriela Ruse.
June
Reached the semi-finals at the Rothesay Open Nottingham with Vivian Heisen before losing to Caroline Dolehide and Monica Niculescu 6-4, 3-6, 10-3.
July
Murray Sharan and Heisen went out in the first round at Wimbledon to Anett Knotaveit and Shelby Rogers 6-2, 6-4.
Recovering from injury set back at the end of 2020, Sam played her first match in 2021 at Roland Garros qualifying where she lost in the first round.
Semi final at ITF $25k in Sunderland in February, won singles and doubles titles at ITF $25k in Potchefstroom SA in March.
Played first senior events of her career on the ITF Circuit in Great Britain. Won first title in 2007. Won first doubles ITF Pro Circuit in the same year. Played first WTA main draw match at Aegon Classic Birmingham in 2009 and won her first four single ITF Pro Circuit titles. Reached WTA SFs in Quebec City in 2015, doubles final of WTA Hong Kong and doubles SF of Aegon Classic Birmingham (with Heather Watson) in 2016.