Scottish tennis champ wins love game

Andy Murray and Kim Sears leave Dunblane Cathedral in Scotland after their wedding. Photo / Getty Images

They make a lovely doubles team.

Andy Murray married his long-time - and long-suffering, some would say - girlfriend Kim Sears in his hometown of Dunblane, in Scotland, yesterday.

Thousands lined the streets to cheer him over the winning line after - just as at Wimbledon - many had got there early to bag a prime spot.

The couple have been dating since 2006, when they were still teenagers and victory at Wimbledon was only a dream. Both are now 27.

Murray wore a Clan Murray tartan kilt which he had bought for his brother Jamie's wedding in 2010.

Kim Murray, as she will now be known, was dressed in an embroidered white gown with three-quarter-length sleeves.

Murray walked into Dunblane Cathedral to wild cheering reminiscent of a Grand Slam final.

Meanwhile, his wife-to-be was driven up to a side door in order to prevent the wind, rain and sleet from ruining her outfit and hairdo.

Dunblane treated the occasion as if it were its own royal wedding, producing souvenirs to mark the day. Crowds stood 10-deep to wave the couple in.

Finally, at 5.45pm local time, the couple emerged from the cathedral. The crowds roared, along with Murray's other great nailbiting spectator over the years, his mother Judy.

Murray's father, William, 60, proudly looked on, accompanied by his fiancee, Sam Watson, to whom he proposed on Christmas Eve.

Tim Henman, the great British tennis hope who inspired Murray to reach the heady heights he could never quite scale, was a guest.

The celebrations were marred by the death of a photographer who had a heart attack and fell on a stone in the graveyard ahead of the wedding rehearsal on Saturday. Gordon Jack, 47, was taken to hospital but died.

Murray was metres away when the photographer collapsed.