AFTER a year of speculation and public support, Andy Murray is to become a Sir.

The Wimbledon champion has been named in the New Year’s Honour list, being awarded a Knighthood for services to tennis and charity.

It ends months of ‘will-he, won’t-he’ calls for the Scot to be recognised after a tremendous run of tennis successes and have his OBE upgraded.

The 29-year-old is already a three-time Grand Slam tournament winner, two-time Olympic champion, Davis Cup champion and the winner of the 2016 ATP World Tour Finals.

In November this year he became World No.1 and has been winner of the BBC’s Sports Personality of the Year three times.

This year’s New Year Honours list is dominated by Rio 2016’s Team GB.

Gold medal-winning distance runner Mo Farah, 33, gets a knighthood for services to athletics while heptathlete Jessica Ennis-Hill becomes a dame.

Farah said: “I’m so happy to be awarded this incredible honour from the country that has been my home since I moved here at the age of eight.

“Looking back at the boy who arrived here from Somalia, not speaking any English, I could never have imagined where I would be today - it’s a dream come true.”

Glasgow’s champion rower Katherine Grainger, 41, the first female Olympian to win five medals at five Games, becomes a dame for services to rowing and charity.

Her parents said they doubt their “down-to-earth” daughter will want to be called Dame Katherine.

Her mother Liz Grainger said: “She is very down to earth and modest, so I doubt she will want to be called Dame Katherine or whatever.

“We always said to her that if there was to be anything in the honours list not to tell us in advance, to tell us at Christmas then we wouldn’t be tempted to tell people or anything.

“So, in fact she waited until we had the whole family together and then told us, so we haven’t known for terribly long but it was very exciting.”

She said her daughter was due to arrive in Edinburgh on Friday night and the family plans to celebrate with “lots and lots of Champagne”.

Wheelchair tennis star Gordon Reid has said his MBE is the “icing on the cake” to a wonderful year.

The 25-year-old receives the honour for services to wheelchair tennis.

It rounds off a year which saw him win grand slam singles titles at the Australian Open and Wimbledon, and doubles titles at the French Open and Wimbledon.

At the Paralympics in Rio, he took singles gold and a silver medal in the doubles, and ended 2016 as world number one.

Commenting on his MBE, he said: “It’s a great honour for me, it’s been a fantastic year for me, the best year of my career, so to finish it off like this is like the icing on the cake.

“The year started amazingly for me in Australia with my first grand slam title there and to go on to Wimbledon and win the singles and doubles, and then to finish it off in Rio with the gold and silver medals, there’s a lot of things there that I didn’t expect would happen this year and I think receiving my MBE is on that list as well, but it’s been amazing and I’ve loved every minute.”

Reid, from Helensburgh, Argyll and Bute, discovered wheelchair tennis after developing rare neurological condition transverse myelitis, which affects the spinal cord, at the age of 12.

He started playing wheelchair tennis in 2005 and became Britain’s youngest men’s singles national champion in 2007 at the age of 15 and the youngest British men’s No.1 shortly before his 18th birthday.

Two married sporting couples have also been honoured, with cycling stars Jason and Laura Kenny being upgraded to CBEs for services to the sport.

Kate Richardson-Walsh receives an OBE, while wife Helen Richardson-Walsh is made an MBE following Great Britain’s first women’s Olympic hockey gold medal. The rest of the team were also made MBEs for services to the sport.

Max Whitlock, 23, who claimed gold on the pommel and floor, as well as winning an all-around bronze, is honoured with an MBE for services to gymnastics.

The list sees Sir Roger Bannister made a Companion of Honour for services to sport.

The 87-year-old became the first man to break the four-minute mile when, aged 25, he clocked three minutes 59.4 seconds in Oxford on May 6 1954.