AWKWARD
I had violent diarrhoea with a guy staring right in my face, reveals Andy Murray as he recalls ‘horrible moment’
Andy Murray opened up on three of his most embarrassing moments
ANDY MURRAY opened up on perhaps the most "horrible" experience of his glittering 19-year career.
Murray, 37, is one of the greatest tennis players of all time having won three Grand Slam titles, including two Wimbledon trophies and the US Open.
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However, the former World No1 also experienced some embarrassing moments, none of which probably comes close to what happened at the Australian Open a few years ago.
The Glasgow star went into the prestigious tournament having indulged on too much sports drinks and pickle juice.
After winning a near five-hour thriller in the first round, the Wimbledon hero was ordered to undergo a drugs test.
As he was ready to undergo the test in the toilet, the Scottish legend's heavy diet took a toll and that led to his stomach breaking down in the worst way possible in front of a doping chief.
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Murray told : “A few years ago, I played a first round at the Australian Open. I played four hours and 40 minutes or something, and I won.
"At the end of the year beforehand, I’d been having some issues with cramping so in that match it was the first tournament of the new year and I was nervous about potentially cramping again so I’d been nailing the energy gels and sports drink and pickle juice.
"I finished the match, won the match and, when I came off the court, I got asked to join a drugs test straight off the court and I was like f***ing hell, really but I was in a good mood because I’d won.
"So I went straight from court and I needed to go to the toilet. So I went to do the drugs test. It’s not the most pleasant experience. I’ve gone into the cubicle with the guy and it’s a tight cubicle.
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"Obviously, they ask you to pull your shorts down below your knees and lift your shirt up above your stomach so I assume they can make sure it’s you peeing into the thing.
"As I start to go I’m like my stomach has gone here. And I’m like I’ve got to sit down and I’m sitting with a guy staring right in my face having like the most violent diarrhoea in front of this guy. It’s a horrible moment… and for him as well.”
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One of which took place during an eventful skiing trip where he had to be rescued from the slopes.
Murray added: "The first two days were shocking. I couldn’t get off the ski lift. I couldn’t get up. They’re quite low some of the ski lifts.
"My wife refused to go on the ski lifts with me because it’s embarrassing isn't it when I just couldn’t get up. So I was having to go on with strangers who were like having to lift me up. My brother-in-law was having to help me.
"The first day I got stuck up the mountain at the end of the day. We were on a beginners slope at the end of the day the ski lift to take you back up to the top was closing and there was another one slightly further down the hill.
"Me and my brother in law, we’re like let’s just go a little bit further and we’ll go up the other ski lift. We went down the mountain a little bit. I can’t ski. I don’t know how to stop at this stage. We’d been on literally a beginner green slope.
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"We want let’s say four 4/500m down the slope, got to where the ski lift was and the other ski lift had shut. The guy who was operating it said the only way to get down now is you have to get down the mountain.
"I was like I can’t ski. He was like you should have gone up when you were told it was closing. The only way is you’ve got to go for it. He said it’s about 3km to the bottom. It’s late in the day so it gets icy as well, it’s harder. I had no idea how to stop.
"I’d gone for about 500m, narrow slope and I’m like if I try to turn I’m going off the side here. I’m going straight down the mountain. I’ve gone past my bother in law and shouting to him I’m in trouble here, I don’t know how to stop here.
"I throw myself on the ground and then started trying to go down on my arse which I couldn't really do. I got to a restaurant eventually having picked up the skis and I’m now walking, and I had to get rescued on one of those skidoos. That’s not really their job.
'Quiet drive home'
"They’re there to help people who are injured rather than some idiot that thought they could get down the slope late in the day. That was a bit embarrassing.”
Nevertheless, Murray will always be remembered for his tremendous success on the court.
Even though the Scot did experience some difficult moments growing up, such as a moment of madness when he was a child and accidentally threw a racket to a supervisor's leg.
Murray remembers: "I got defaulted from a match where I’d thrown my racket, it had gone underneath the fence and hit the supervisor on the leg. I got defaulted from the match.
"The event I was playing was in Edinburgh. It was where Tennis Scotland offices were and, at the time, my mum was the head of Tennis Scotland.
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"And she was in the office doing some work and I had to trudge back into the Tennis Scotland offices and let her know that her son had been defaulted for hitting the supervisor with a racket. So that was quite a quiet drive home.”
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