“I guess I’ll just need to win Wimbledon to shut everyone up.” — Andy Murray to The Daily Telegraph in June 2004Mission accomplished, although it took nearly a decade for Murray to manage it.
He had to scrap and scream through all sorts of tennis trouble before finally putting a halt to all the annual chatter about when a British man might finally win Wimbledon again.
Now, at 37 and at the end of his career — win or lose (or forced to withdraw because of recent back surgery) — he is saying goodbye to a tournament he conquered not once, but twice.
Three years elapsed between his first victory in 2013 and his second in 2016, when his proud country rewarded Murray with a knighthood.
In that same year, he won his second Olympic gold.
Persons:
” — Andy Murray, Murray, Fred Perry
Organizations:
Wimbledon, The Daily Telegraph
Locations:
British