Andy Murray won his first Wimbledon
title and ended Britain's 77-year wait for a men's champion with a hard-fought
victory over world number one Novak Djokovic.
The Scot, 26, converted his fourth
championship point in a dramatic final game to win 6-4 7-5 6-4 and claim his
second major title.
I remember when I first started
watching Wimbledon all I ever heard was a Brit won’t win it ever again, and
over the years the repetition of that sentence conditioned me into thinking
well maybe they it won’t happen, but thankfully that hasn’t turned out to be
the case and what a performance it was by Murray.
After the way the match started I
was expecting a five hour, epic, and although I wasn’t surprised Murray won, I
was surprised he did it in three.
Djokovic was worn down from that unbelievable
semi-final on Friday and after Murray fought back and took the second set it
looked to me like he didn’t believe he could come back and do it in five.
Murray’s win capped a remarkable
weekend for British sport, you had the Lions win their first tour in 16 years,
then Chris Froome putting in two huge efforts in the mountains to be in the yellow
jersey, McDowell winning the French Open and we’re favourites for the Ashes
that start on Wednesday, not bad eh.
Back to the tennis and now it seems
with Nadal’s injuries and Federer starting to fade, this certainly won’t be the
last final we see between Djokovic and Murray, in fact I’m sure all bets are
already off for them meeting in the final of the U.S. Open.
But for now the long wait has been
ended and I can finally say I saw a Brit win Wimbledon.
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