So this is it Andy. Nineteen glorious years at Wimbledon about to come to an end but do you remember the first time back in 2005 when Murray mania…
So this is it Andy. Nineteen glorious years at Wimbledon about to come to an end but do you remember the first time back in 2005 when Murray mania was born?
The Herald was on the ball when it came to Andy Murray from day one. I was at Edinburgh Airport to welcome him home on behalf of the paper when he won the 1999 Orange Bowl, the topevent in the USA for players aged between 12 and 14. I was pretty much the papers Andy Murray man in his early years. He was just 18 when he played in his first Wimbledon but wasn’t the only Scot who was handed a wildcard to the tournament as this was a golden era for Scottish tennis.
This was the era of Greg Rudeski and Tim Henman who was the English sweetheart and Murray was the young Scottish upstart new on the scene. Sue Barker interviewing Tim fans on “Henman Hill’’ was the thing. Tim’s stoic mum and dad in the players box showing no emotion regardless of how their son was doing was the perfect example of the English stiff upper lip. How refreshing it was when Andy’s mum Judy and her best pal Laura Middleton openly showed their emotions as they watched him in action.
Referring back to his Herald columns I can reveal the night before the match Murray tucked into a meal of pasta and steak with tomato sauce washed down with a Frappuccino from Starbucks, then went to his bed to watch Big Brother, Celebrity Love Island and Ricky Hatton boxing videos. I appeared to have had a strange need to continually ask him about his eating habits.
His third-round opponent was the formidable David Nalbandian of Argentina who had lost the 2002 Wimbledon final to Australian Leyton Hewitt. Promoted to centre court the atmosphere was electric with Sir Sean Connery in the Royal Box there to cheer his fellow countryman on.
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