Wimbledon 2013: Murray conquers Djokovic and sets the nation's heart aglow

In the end, inside the giddy, sun bleached and adoration honestly Centre Court, it felt like it was all worth the wait. Andy Murray is the champion of Wimbledon, and that many male ends a 77-year hiatus since the last time raise a British man tennis prize the most alluring, and in the process of expansion and one of the most sporting Everests vertiginous. It's a real achievement gold standard for a man from Dunblane, a certain weight not only by the burden of history and annual folkish romance of Wimbledon the same summer, but the fact that he competes in one of the great periods of men's tennis elite.

Exactly where Murray will win Wimbledon comfort to the individual of great British sporting feats postwar years is a matter for debate endlessly. But now this comparison can be swept fortunately to one side in favor of simply savoring the harsh glare superb 6-4, 7-5, 6-4 defeat of world No1 Novak Djokovic on the main stadium sultry.

At the moment of victory dropped Murray racket turned and mouth agape, towards the nearest section of the crowd - by coincidence happy also press box - before crumpling to his knees on the main field, and to overcome the end point of austerity gruellingly, sometimes trip obsession towards a career-high unassailable. Even in the moment of victory and Murray was still in line with Murray, raise the ceiling on the comment box and hugging - and not his mother or his girlfriend - but the coach, and wise briefly Ivan Lendl. There were tears in his speech after the game where there were not in defeat by Roger Federer in the final, just a moment affectionate really communicating last year with the Court Center is augmented by a list of A-list of VIP carpetbagging, including David Cameron, Ed Miliband Alex Salmond waving Great comic - separate sectors of color - and strictly non-U in the royal box.

"Winning Wimbledon is the pinnacle of tennis," Murray said afterwards, still in a daze something of a good half an hour after the final point. "I worked hard in that game the past. It difficult few points I've had to play in my life, and I do not know how it will change my life. I hope not, I hope not too much, but the atmosphere was different today to what you experienced in the past."

With the performance is limited focus of this wonderful self-made athlete, and one of the outstanding omissions in the history of modern British sport has been filled. Maybe Fred Perry, dig in so often and walked around the place over the past few years as a kind of courtly blame for successive generations of underachievement and, finally, may be allowed to rest again, gratefully re-sent to the Wimbledon Museum.

In spite of this being Wimbledon, they might be a little painful. With Murray two sets and breaking serve up and NO1 strange world prone to error, and it seemed for a brief period that he could win in a canter, or at least from the without bout Centre Court expected. Not so fast. Djokovic, though, is nothing if not flexible and Serbian rallied to go 4-2, pull himself to his height, full champion, also painted the first concern and متهدج fuss around the center of the court banked sharply and bowl green جونميتال.

Murray answered with a wave of baseline tennis irresistibly powerful, to go to 5-4 and sets up and service is just a game away from the championship. Centre Court broke with the excitement is really confined for the first time as, after letting slip three points of the tournament, and Murray finally took the match a large whumping wave of noise as Djokovic hit TO THE NET at the last minute. And partly, as Murray staggered around randomly high-fiving in the end, there was a feeling that this was also something of a love story courteous Instead, in the midst of Murray and that prim, volatile, but in the end adorable compliantly Wimbledon crowd. Throughout the last two weeks was a crowd in the back force. There really is not any debate now. It is totally adored in SW19. One statue - has the Olympics too, and remember - may not be enough

Centre Court, of course, was packed from the start, and stand to give each of Murray and Djokovic to celebrate the opening of genuine warmth. Passed the open points in a storm of high quality baseline slugging also attacked Murray and Djokovic sent after 22 minutes brain manglingly the intensive NO1 got his first batch British slightly in front, breaking serve to go 2-1. Swallowed Centre Court. Everything will be like this? At the same stage in the women's final the previous day's Marion Bartoli was serving for the first set.

Djokovic broke the back but Murray broke again in the seventh game, and I got my first unrestricted cheers honestly and seal the first set to a pistol shot of applause. We should make no mistake: Murray was against a really great champion here, which is a tremendous mix of extreme mental toughness - Oh, this is unshakable, unbreakable, titanium-hulled Djokovic temperament - and captivating agility facility. Where Jump Murray engaged towards the elite athlete-DOM for bulking up and thickness to his current Terminator measure of fitness, the rise coincided Djokovic with bulking the bottom, which confirms his foil, and speed the arrival of unusual side-sliding. Where Murray has a clump of his movements around the court, those ankles and wide - the ankles of three men - beating rub Wimbledon, Djokovic moves without leaving a trace.

Even now, as Djokovic rose again at the beginning of the second set Murray refused to wilt, rather than the application of these pressures was Djokovic, who began to lose his cool, protest violently with the arbitrator not to veto a marginal call. Murray served from 6-5 to take what seemed like an unassailable two points selected at the end of a terrible drain Wimbledon fortnight. And so it proved to be, as Murray kept his head on the main pitch which sometimes seemed close to losing its own in those final moments. Completely where Murray profession goes from here remains to be seen. With two of the four major championships to his name he has now passed more than a game to champion the profession just to stress them. But in both cases had now has carved a distinctive position in the ongoing history of the British sporting summer.

77 years of hurt
Perry Murray

The Blues after Perry

World War II was a clear contributing factor, but no one was able to live up to the achievements of Fred Perry in the next 10 years, despite the fact that Bunny Austin came very close, and access to the final in 1938. From 1946 to 1961, made no British man of the past quarter-finals.

60s and not-so-swinging

After the completion of four years, Mike Montego Bay in 1961, the Aussies continued their dominance, with Rod Laver, Roy Emerson and John Newcombe lift the trophy more often. Hit Bobby Wilson quarter-finals in 1963, but that was about it.

And near misses

Not to be confused with the drummer in Queen, Roger Taylor was the best player in Britain in the late 1960s and 1970s. The player is left-handed stroke to send the bad guys, reached the semi-finals in 1967, 1970 and 1973, and two of them lost in five sets.

Buster Mottram views NF

Mottram was good enough to be the world No15 but only managed to reach the fourth round once, in 1982. After tennis, he became notorious for his right-wing political views, including a dalliance with the National Front.

In the 1980s vacant

Mottram was the only British man to make the post 16 in the 1980s, which increases the strange fact that John Lloyd was still playing. Lloyd reached the Australian Open final on grass in 1977 but did not reach the last round three at home.

Jeremy Bates era

Not quite the era but the man from Croydon with a sweet backhand and reached the Round of 16 twice and even if match point on Guy Forget in 1992 to make it to the quarter-finals, catching the ball toss and promptly double-faulting.

Adoption of Rusedski

Is unable to produce a hero, we tried to borrow one, so Rusedski large to serve the interests of Canada to Britain, thanks to his English mother. But although Greg reached the final of the U.S. Open in 1997 that the service is also ideal for grass, and he just said to the quarter-finals here.

Henman hoping

Henmania officially began when Yevgeny Kafelnikov, Tim won in one round in 1996 and lasted a good ten years also reached four semi-finals. Pete Sampras (twice), and ended with Lleyton Hewitt and Goran Ivanisevic dream.

Tears Murray

It was Andy Murray proved himself clearly to be the best player in Britain since Fred Perry By the time he reached the final in 2012 but after taking the first set against Roger Federer, beating the Swiss again under the same roof for the win in four Murray destroyed let the tears flow.