Andy Murray ended the 77 year long drought to become the first British player since the late Fred Perry to lift the Wimbledon crown after beating Novak Djokovic 6-4,7-5,6-4.The Brit came through a nervous final game where he failed to capitalize on three championship points only to convert the fourth to win his first ever Wimbledon title.
It was an electric atmosphere in the Centre Court and even outside on the grass banks where the supporters gathered in huge numbers to support the Scot on a hot day in London .But it was worth it as after 3 hours and 10 minutes they erupted with joy as they had witnessed an historic feat by Murray ,who climbed onto the stands to celebrate with his family and support team.
Djokovic didn't have a good day as he was unusually erratic and made many unforced errors off his forehand. On the other hand Andy was playing exceptionally getting a good percentage of first serve wins and keeping his cool during the many long rallies in the game.
The match started with Murray putting good pressure and earning 3 break points. But he failed to convert any ,and djokovic fought back and took the game. Andy broke Djokovic's serve in the 3rd game ,but the Serb broke back with a vengeance to level the game at 2-2.Murray put pressure on the Djokovic serve again and broke to take a 4-3 lead and he held on to take the first set 6-4.
Djokovic started the 2nd set strongly and raced to a 4-1 lead ,but Andy persevered and fought back to bring the set at 5-5.The momentum was in Andy's favour as he broke the World no1's service game and clinching the set 7-5 with an ace and taking a 2 nothing advantage into the third set with crowd almost sniffing Murray's victory.
Murray looked to be in cruise control as he took a 2-0 lead in the 3rd set. Novak as he so often does, fought back and won the next 4 games to lead 4-2,but Andy was in no mood to play another set and displayed some fine tennis to claw his way back and serve for the title at 5-4 and finally to the delight of everyone the crowd and back home in Dunblane he held his serve, which was game, set, match and championship!
-A M
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