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Wimbledon champion Andy Murray has revealed how Rafa Nadal sent him a saucy text in a restaurant.

The Spanish tennis star, 27, sent the message as a joke to wind up Andy, 26, as he dined with his girlfriend Kim Sears in America.

Referring to Rafa, Andy said: “He did prank me once in New York. Basically I was sitting at dinner with my girlfriend and, during the meal I was checking my phone and I looked at one of the messages and it was from a number I didn’t recognise and it said something like, ‘Oh my God, Andy, you look so sexy tonight. It’s a shame you’re here with your girlfriend.’

“So I obviously didn’t tell my girlfriend at first, I didn’t want to ruin the meal. So I put it back in my pocket.

“Then on the way back from the meal it clicked who it was, and obviously the whole time he’d been watching me from a distance looking at this message and seeing my face.”

Speaking on the Jonathan Ross Show on ITV, Andy also said he was drug tested on the morning that he went to collect his OBE.

He said: “It was a couple of weeks ago, I was going to Buckingham Palace to receive an OBE and just literally as the car had already arrived to take us there the drug testers turned up. So, basically, there’s lots of rules with the drug testers now. You give blood then you have to sit for 15 to 20 minutes before you can give the blood.

“They say that these are random tests. It’s part of the job. Right now, with what’s going on with drugs and sport, it’s tough to trust people and the only way to get that trust back is by improving the drug testing.”

And ahead of his tennis comeback from injury next year, Andy also insisted he tries to ignore his mum because he facial expressions put him off.

Asked if he watches his mum Judy in the crowd, Andy told Wossy: “I try not to. I watched the last game at Wimbledon a couple of days after, my mum’s reactions after the points aren’t particularly helpful.

“In that game, I’d lose a match point and she would sort of stand up rigid, sort of saying, ‘It’s ok,’ but I’m looking at her thinking, ‘I can tell in your face, you’re thinking, ‘It’s not ok.’’ I don’t think it’s easy watching your kids playing in matches like that and you actually feel bad when you see how much stress they’re going through.”