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1 week ago | 
gq-magazine.co.uk | Mike Christensen
Andy Murray’s kids don’t know what he does. “They think I’m a golfer, which right now is kind of true,” the three-time Grand Slam tennis champion says of his four children, aged between four and nine. “I think one saw a book that I'm in at school, so there’s an awareness, but I don’t think they’re really bothered.”It’s 8am on a sunny Monday in June and we’re sitting across from each other in a booth inside the players’ area at Queen’s Club.
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2 weeks ago | 
gq-magazine.co.uk | Mike Christensen |Olivia Vaile
I’m expecting England to win the Euro 2025. Honestly, regardless of all the reasons why we might not, I still expect it. That blind faith makes big tournaments so special. It’s the intensity of that pressure and expectation from fans that made me love the Euros as a player and why I love them so much now. We all saw what the Euros did for women’s football when the Lionesses won on home soil in 2022. I don’t think you can overstate how huge that was.
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2 weeks ago | 
gq-magazine.co.uk | Mike Christensen
Alessia Russo has a pretty good idea about which manicure to have later. “A lot of the girls are getting red. I’m not being superstitious but,” she pauses, holding out her nails. “I never normally get red.”It’s late morning on a sunny Wednesday in May and the genteel folk of Harpenden are pottering around the town’s leafy high street like it’s a Sunday afternoon.
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2 weeks ago | 
gq-magazine.co.uk | Mike Christensen
Ironically, Christian Toetzke is not a fan of burpee broad jumps. “They are definitely my nemesis,” says the man jointly responsible for dreaming up Hyrox, the fitness-self-torture workout that demands both hardcore cardio and big-time brawn. “It’s weird; I’m pretty good at burpees in training but in competition, they kill me every time,” says Toetzke.
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2 weeks ago | 
gq-magazine.co.uk | Mike Christensen
It was only a matter of time before Mark Ronson – aka the godfather of modern music – and beloved British singer-songwriter Raye dropped a song together. But few could have anticipated quite how this collaboration of these two British generational music talents would come about.
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3 weeks ago | 
gq-magazine.co.uk | Mike Christensen
As good years go, this has been a boss one for Curtis Jones. The young Scouser began 2024/25 on the fringes of Liverpool’s squad – underused by Jurgen Klopp, thus unsure how he might fit into new manager Arne Slot’s plans – and ended it as a Premier League winner and one of his boyhood club’s top performers. "I'm just trying to be a humble kid, living the dream,” says Jones, currently standing on one of those old-school burgundy banquettes you only get in proper boozers.
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1 month ago | 
gq-magazine.co.uk | Mike Christensen
Abbi Pulling has a racing-related confession to make. “I've gotten worse at Mario Kart with age. Now I always lose,” the 22-year-old F1 Academy champion, whose go-to racer is Baby Yoshi, tells me. She’s quick to pinpoint her weaknesses though, as a racing driver would to their engineer. “I've not quite got the drifting right with the power boost,” she says. “And I always jump the start.”Fortunately no such niggling console game difficulties exist when it comes to her actual driving skills.
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1 month ago | 
gq-magazine.co.uk | Mike Christensen
Last December, Micky van de Ven went on a solo winning spree – at Winter Wonderland. With giant soft toys up for grabs, Spurs’s 24-year-old Dutch defender was eager to bag as many as his skills could muster. “I went to win, and won three in one night,” says Van de Ven, proudly gesturing to a life-sized Christmas panda elf, a far-larger-than-life sloth and a five-foot banana behind us.
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2 months ago | 
gq-magazine.co.uk | Mike Christensen
Mike France, diehard Evertonian and Christopher Ward CEO in that order, was in a bar in Sydney with his brother when James Tarkowski smashed in an injury-time equaliser for Everton against Liverpool in the last ever Merseyside derby at Goodison Park.
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2 months ago | 
gq-magazine.co.uk | Mike Christensen
Limbs. Scenes. Wow. These three words aptly describe what went down at Augusta golf course yesterday evening when Rory McIlroy finally put his Masters hoodoo to bed with a dramatic play-off win against Justin Rose. It was one for the ages, a real ‘remember when Rory did it’ moment. With victory comes golfing immortality as McIlroy has effectively now completed the sport. He is now only the sixth player in history to have his name on all five majors – the last person to do so was Tiger Woods in 2000.
