Wimbledon star survived Dunblane

A rising British tennis star who survived the Dunblane massacre has won his first match in the Wimbledon boys' tournament.

Andrew Murray, 17, was a pupil at the Scottish primary school when Thomas Hamilton walked in and shot dead 16 children and their teacher on 13 March, 1996.

He was the number two-ranked junior in the world last December and he defeated his American opponent yesterday to progress to the next round of the competition.

An eight-year-old at the time of the horror, Andrew was on his way to the gym when Hamilton began shooting and he hid in the headmaster's study while the terror unfolded. Some of Andrew's friends lost brothers and sisters in the shooting and he remains reluctant to talk about the events of the terrible day.

His mother Judy, a Scottish national tennis coach, has said he will often list his home town as near Stirling, rather than Dunblane because of the associations with the massacre.

Andrew was the youngest competitor when he made his Wimbledon debut in the 2002 junior event. He lost in the first round and again last June.