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Sports Andy Murray: Winning Wimbledon is 'pinnacle of tennis'
2013.07.08 00:58
Andy Murray: Winning Wimbledon is 'pinnacle of tennis'  Andy Murray said winning Wimbledon and ending Britain's 77-year wait for a men's champion was the "pinnacle of tennis". The 26-year-old Scot converted his fourth championship point to beat top seed Novak Djokovic 6-4 7-5 6-4 in what Murray described as a brutal match. "Winning Wimbledon, I can't get my head around that. I still can't believe it's happened," said the British number one. "I think that last game will be the toughest I'll play in my career." Murray squandered three championship points from 40-0 and saw off three Djokovic break points before the world number one netted a backhand to end a gruelling contest lasting three hours and 10 minutes. "Winning Wimbledon is the pinnacle of tennis, the last game almost increased that feeling," added Murray, who has won Olympic gold, the US Open and now his second Grand Slam title since losing last year's Wimbledon final. "That last game pretty much took everything out of me. I worked so hard in that last game. They will be the hardest few points I have to play in my life. Some of the shots he came up with were unbelievable. "I didn't know what was going on [during that last game]. There were a lot of different emotions at that time." Murray, Scotland's first Wimbledon singles champion since Harold Mahony in 1896, thanked his coach Ivan Lendl for believing in him. Lendl, an eight-time major winner but never a Wimbledon champion despite reaching two finals, started coaching the Scot last year. "He stuck by me through some tough losses and he's been very patient with me, I'm just happy for him," said the world number two, whose Wimbledon victory earned him a first prize of £1.6m to take his 2013 earnings so far to over £3.3m. "He's always been very honest with me and told me exactly what he thought and in tennis that's not easy to do in a player/coach relationship. "He's got my mentality slightly different going into matches." On Britain's hottest day of the year, the court-side thermometer on Centre Court read 40C and the temperature, added to the fearsome exchanges between the two finalists, contributed to what the second seed described as an "incredibly demanding match". "It was so tough, it was so hot as well. I hadn't played any matches in the heat of the day," said Murray. "Since the clay-court season, since I missed the French Open with my back, it had been cool. I hadn't played at all in those sort of conditions. "The first few games were brutal as well. It was 30 minutes for the first four games." Murray, convincingly beaten in the first four Grand Slam finals he competed in, said perseverance has been the story of his career. He also admitted that being the standard-bearer for the sport in Britain was "really hard". "For the last four or five years it's been very tough, very stressful, a lot of pressure," he said. "The last two days were not easy because it's just everywhere you go. "It's so hard to avoid everything because of how big this event is but also because of the history and no Brit having won [for so long]. It's been very, very difficult." Aimee Lewis BBC Sport at Wimbledon. |
Comment 3
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황규정*65
2013.07.08 01:36
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조승자
2013.07.08 09:15
관중들의 응원소리에 얼마나 pressure가 왔을가요?
잘 이겨 냈다고 봅니다.
Congratulations, Andy and Brits!
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황규정*65
2013.07.08 10:13
우리가 살아가는동안 어느 개인,단체,아니면 국가던간에 '꼭' 이루었으면 아니 꼭 이루어야만
되는경우에 그것을 오랜세월동안 이룰수 없을때 그것이 '앙금'으로 남아 있게 되지요.Red Sox fan들이 그랬고 Cubs fan들은 아직도 그러고 있지요.Detroit Redwings가
1955년 7번째 Stanley Cup 우승후에 다음 42년간 fan들을 울렸지요.Blue collar
fan이 주가되는 Redwings fan들은 팀의 승패가 인생의 전부인양 그렇게 심각들하지요.그래서 팀이 꼴찌를 할때도 경기장을 꽉 메우는 열렬 fan 들이 있습니다. 1997년 처음 우승
하기전까지 수많은 우여곡절을 겪으며 승리의 여신은 우리들을 피해만 갔었습니다. In those
days I was desperated enough my prayer was as follows.
'I could sacrifice or trade anything except my own family for
the Cup!' 'Please! Cup for the Redwings!' My dreams came true
and Detroit Redwings had won 4 Stanley Cups since then and we
fans had had tremendous satisfaction out of them.I fully understand British fans for this win and my big hands
to them. KJ
It was a historic day for British!
Finally British wins men's Champion of Wimbledon again in 77 years.
Andy Murray,age of 26 beat world No 1 Novak Djokovic 3 sets to none.
77 years Wimbledon's curse for Brits was gone.
It took 86 years to get rid of Bambino's curse for Boston Red Sox and
42 years to win again Stanley Cup Championship for Detroit Redwings.
There are not many occasions for a grown man to cry and Murray's crying
yesterday was one of those occasions. KJ
PS, I have to thank to Andy Murray to finish the match quick enough
for me to be able to watch live this historic event before joining the annual
golf gathering with my med school classmates at our club.