Sir Andy Murray claims top humanitarian award for donating prize money to boost efforts during Ukraine invasion

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Dunblane tennis ace Sir Andy Murray has scooped a top altruism award in recognition of his support for the humanitarian efforts in Ukraine.The double Wimbledon champ was last week named as the recipient of the 2022 Arthur Ashe Humanitarian Award.Murray becomes the fourth tennis player who has earned the award multiple times, having also claimed it in 2014 – joining Andre Agassi, Roger Federer and Aisam-Ul-Haq Qureshi.The 35-year-old wrote an essay for ATPTour.com detailing the thought process behind his philanthropic efforts, what motivated him as a younger player to further involve himself with charity work and more.Sir Andy said: “In February I was playing the tournament in Dubai and I remember watching the news and there were rumours about something happening between Russia and Ukraine.“A few days later, when Russia invaded Ukraine, everyone was very worried about what it would mean.

When all the images on the news showing what was happening to families began pouring in, it was devastating. Houses were bombed and families were displaced.

Young children were affected by this, with many injured and in some cases dying. I wasn’t sure what I could do to help.Click here for more news and sport from the Stirling area.“Shortly after I decided that from Indian Wells onwards, I would donate my prize money for the rest of the season to UNICEF’s humanitarian response – the final total was just over $630,000.

It seemed like something that would give me some extra motivation this year. I thought I could also raise some awareness and hopefully get others involved in helping, too.”Sir Andy added: “There are 7.5 million children in Ukraine and after more than nine months of increased conflict, 5.2 million of them are in need of