What Andy Murray achieved transcended tennis, and showed the nation that being Scottish needn't be a lifetime sentence to sporting heartbreak and…
Andy Murray showed all of his trademark resilience to finally win Wimbledon in 2013, and become the first British man to do so in 77 years.at all. Not really. Instead, I feel compelled to write about a man who most people would cursorily describe as a tennis player, but for me, and for the country, has come to represent a whole lot more than that.
How did this scraggly, scruffy kid from Dunblane get to the top of tennis? That world wasn’t for us. That was for well-spoken boys named Tim, or some such. So poor are the facilities in, it seemed as likely we would produce a world-class yodeller as it did we would produce the best tennis player on the planet.
It was only a matter of time before the Wimbledon title, the one he and the rest of us so prized, would follow. Surely. Murray went 40-0 up in jig time. Somehow, the game lasted a shade under 12 minutes. Three match points came and went. Djokovic had advantage, and break point, on three occasions. Murray fought back each time, and eventually put us all out of our misery to fulfil his destiny.
There was the week of the Open, when the rather unimaginatively titled ‘Flemington Open’ would take place, the hazards being the parked cars in the street and the nearby windows of the tower blocks.
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