ANDY Murray has revealed he is having multiple best men at his upcoming wedding to fiancee Kim Sears.
The tennis ace has asked brother Jamie and friends Ross Hutchins and Carlos Mier to share the duties when he ties the knot next month.
The 27-year-old will marry Miss Sears at his hotel Cromlix House near his hometown of Dunblane on April 11. In January, his brother said he had not yet been asked to take on the big role.
Murray has now confirmed that his brother will be one of three best men, joking that it was "double standards" that brides were allowed multiple bridesmaids when the tradition was for only one person to be picked by the groom. Miss Sears is having four bridesmaids.
"Jamie's going to be one of them, Ross is also going to be a best man," he said. "Hopefully my good friend Carlos from Spain, in Barcelona.
"I didn't spend loads of time with my brother when we were 15-20, he was training in France. I was training in Spain, and my friend Carlos, he was my best friend during that time, which were very important years of my life when I moved away from my family and my friends.
"I feel like he knows extremely well from then, my brother knows me obviously since I was a child, and Ross over the last six or seven years, we've become extremely close and we've been through a lot together as well.
"So, picking one was for me, a very, very difficult thing to do because I had three guys who were clearly my three best friends and I would like all of them to be involved in some way."
Murray told how he was not feeling nervous about the wedding but would be more apprehensive about starting a family.
He said: "I'm actually not nervous about getting married to be honest, we've been together about nine and a half years so, we've lived together for six, seven years as well so I don't think a whole lots going to change.
"I think I'll be more nervous about starting a family because I feel like for me, that would be more life changing, in a good way but, I kind of feel we have been married already in the way we spend our lives together and live together so I'm not that nervous about the day at all."
Murray was best man when Jamie married his partner Alejandra Gutierrez at Cromlix House in 2010.
He also took on the role for former doubles player Hutchins' wedding to Lindsay Wood in November last year.
Hutchins, a Davis Cup doubles player, underwent six months of chemotherapy after he was diagnosed with Hodgkin's Lymphoma in 2013 and credited Murray with helping his recovery.
Peruvian Mier was Murray's room-mate when he trained at the Sanchez-Casal Academy in Barcelona as a teenager.
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