Tennis Stories 12 Nov 2013 - 15:48 / by Talal Dar / reads 57.Source:
Tennis: British no.1 Tennis player Andy Murray, who became first British player in 77 years to win Wimbledon title this July, tells his feelings when he went to Wimbledon last week and what was his feelings when he had championship points to win Wimbledon.
Murray saw the scoreboard right there with the same scoreline of his and Djokovic's final, and remembered all those feelings during final moments of that match.
'As I went down to pick up the towel [at deuce], I saw my arm and hand shaking and I've never had that before so I kind of realised that I was feeling the nerves a bit,' he said. 'You can imagine, with everything that is going on, when you look down and your hand is actually shaking, it doesn't help things.'
'If I had lost that game I think mentally it would have been very, very tough to come back from. And you can see in that last game that physically I was really struggling. It was so hot, I literally could barely breathe,' he revealed.
'I hit a huge serve out wide,' Murray recalled. 'It was about 130mph, and I thought it was over because I saw him taking one hand off the racquet and it's pretty hard to control a ball that is going that fast with one hand.
'The ball like looped up. I remember then that everyone was kind of gasping because they thought it was going out, but then it dropped right on the baseline. Thankfully he missed the next backhand into the net, and that was it.
'The next few minutes were just a bit of a blur. I didn't know exactly where I was or who I was going to, or what I was doing.'
'We'd hugged a few times but he doesn't often do that in public. I don't know how much he enjoyed it, but it was nice to go up there and see them,' said Murray.
'The other guys that I have been working with for five or six years, they've seen me lose a lot of those matches, so to go up and see them after that was nice.'
His mum Judy was a few rows back, and he successfully located her just in time.
'Luckily I didn't completely forget about her,' he said. 'It was tough because when I watched the last game back, there are a couple of points when they had gone to my mum in the crowd. It actually makes you feel bad as you can see how much stress you are putting them under.
'I saw her when I lost one of the match points - she kind of stood up and was sort of saying 'it's OK, it's OK', and I could just see in her face that she was not OK, and it wasn't OK at that moment.
'She was struggling a little bit to keep it all together, and I think after the match she literally didn't even look at me - she was just bursting into tears with whoever was next to her.'
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