Absolutely amazing. I feel extremely priviledged to have been alive to witness the first British winner for 77 years. So many people did not get that chance. It hadn't even happened in my parents lifetimes and only just in all my grandparents' lifetimes, only one of whom would have been old enough to maybe know what it was. Sadly he is no longer with us to experience this one and one of the others has alzheimers and is in a care home with no clue. So many lifetimes have passed since it last happened.
It was always one of my four big childhood sporting dreams of things I hoped to experience at some point in my lifetime (for the record the others being England winning the Ashes which I've now had 3 times, Arsenal winning the CL and England winning the World Cup). I can't believe it's now happened. It was an incredible win. Amazing comebacks in the 2nd and 3rd set and how was he even holding the racquet in that winning game. I didn't think I was going to survive that last game let alone the players!
Personally I have been a big Murray fan since the start, not a bandwagon jumper. First heard of him when he won the US Open boys singles in 2004 and followed him since that. When he came to NZ to the Auckland tournament in 2006 I sat by the practice court watching him for an hour instead of watching the first match of the day just to get a chance to meet the next great British player which I did briefly (will dig out the photo and post it when I get home). Been a long journey with a lot of disappointments but hopefully there's a few more of these days to come now.
