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Seventy-seven years after Fred Perry last brought the men’s title home, and 36 years since Virginia Wade did it, Great Britain has a home-grown champion at Wimbledon. \u00a0Andy Murray beat the Serbian Novak Djokovic 6-4, 7-5, 6-4, to take the trophy he has long been pressured over. \u00a0It was a hard-fought match, and while a straight-sets affair, it took over 3 hours to complete.<\/p>\n
Djokovic did not look at his best today, perhaps suffering a bit mentally, if not physically, from his longest-ever semifinal match against Juan Martin Del Potro on Friday. \u00a0Murray, however, seemed determined from the start to finally bring the title home, and get the monkey, and the press, off his back. \u00a0The last game, with Murray serving for it was especially dramatic, with Djokovic fighting back from 0-40 to have a couple of break points. \u00a0When the Scot finally closed it out, the collective cheer of a nation may well have been audible from France.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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