Greatest moments of the decade: Andy Murray wins Wimbledon 🎾🏆
That noise, in those 90 seconds, will never ever be heard again. So loud, so impassioned, it was like Murray was about to play the final game of his life.
With a small bunch of the British media following his every turn, the story was building. The ranking climbed, attention grew, pressure intensified. At times it was tricky to tell the story from the frontline because we could see his faults - and with every defeat came analysis of the faults - yet we could see they were far outweighed by his strengths.
We were all feeling it. As a commentator, you're neutral. But I was willing him over the line because, like everyone else, I knew this was it. He had to win it here.The hardest point to win is the last, so the maxim goes, and I firmly believe the closest Murray came to defeat was when he lost a third match point.
And that's why this story is such a compelling one, the achievement so great. Not so much the history, the 77 years, the ghost of Fred Perry. Very simply how, Andy Murray - how on earth - did you win that match in that insanely frazzling situation? "Do I get a hug for that?" he said with his usual sarcastic drawl. Sure thing. He then insisted on holding my microphone for a photograph. It wasn't plugged in, he wanted to hold it anyway. We were all a bit doolally by that stage.
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