Jamie Murray misses out on second Wimbledon doubles crown

Andy Murray cheers on his brother Jamie in the men's doubles finat at Wimbledon. Photograph: Jonathan Hordle/Rex ShutterstockThere was a painful sense of deja vu for the Murray family as Jamie suffered a thumping straight-sets defeat in the men’s doubles final on Saturday evening – 24 hours after his brother Andy succumbed to Roger Federer on Centre Court.

Jamie, at 29, the elder Murray brother by a year – won the mixed doubles title with Jelena Jankovic in 2007 and was aiming to become the first Briton since Leslie Godfree in 1926 to claim both the Wimbledon men’s and mixed doubles titles. But it was not to be as Murray and his partner, the Australian John Peers, lost 7-6, 6-4, 6-4 to the…