“I hope it inspires some kids to play tennis,” Murray, 25, said of the potential impact of his win, “and also takes away the notion that British tennis players choke.” On the heels of a wildly successful home team performance at the London Olympics, and a Paralympic Games that set all kinds of attendance records, to say nothing of fulfilling the London slogan of “Inspire a generation,” Murray beat Djokovic in an epic five-set U.S. Great Britain’s greatest sporting summer ended with another shot of glory. “I’m obviously proud that I managed to achieve it, and yeah, don’t have to get asked that stupid question again.” “I realized how important that moment was, for British tennis, for British sport.” Murray, a Scot, won the match.
“It does build pressure a little bit,” says Murray of the constant harping on Great Britain’s struggles in the slams. Murray knew this was his chance to stop the losing streak. Open, against Novak Djokovic, on a chilly New York City evening. Open, no British man had won a Grand Slam singles title.Īnd now, 76 years to the day since Perry won that championship, Murray was serving for the U.S. Since 1936, when Fred Perry took the U.S. How couldn’t it? For years, the British press has reminded Murray of his country’s tennis futility.
Follow match point, that bloody drought crept into Andy Murray’s head.
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