admin It has been nearly two years since Britain’s greatest tennis player Andy Murray last played at Wimbledon, He has been struggling out with a hip injury. And just a few months back he tearily announced the problem had become so severe he was about to retire.
But here he was again, lively through all the familiar tunes, only in a different key – playing doubles and not singles.
The way Murray and his partner, the Frenchman Pierre-Hugues Herbert, recovered from a set down to dismantle Marius Copil and Ugo Humbert 4-6, 6-1, 6-4, 6-0 suggested that the Scot could well add to his three grand slams.
“I was a little bit nervous at the start but I like to be,” said Murray, who confessed to bringing five pairs of tennis shoes into the locker room just in case of any mishaps. “I like feeling the pressure because it shows that you care. And that match will do us a lot of good.”
With Rafael Nadal and Nick Kyrgios slugging it out in a minor epic on Centre Court, those wanting to watch the early stages of Murray’s latest odyssey had to do so via the red button. It meant that many would have missed his tentative start – something that was entirely understandable given that he and Herbert had never played a competitive set together.
Wires were crossed. Signals misinterpreted. And the pair were broken twice in their opening three service games as they lost the first set.
But it soon became clear that Murray had chosen his partner well. Herbert is a top-40 singles player, with the doubles nous to have won four grand slams, and he began to read his partner’s returns and find ways to compliment his strengths. Once they had broken early in the second set they never looked back. The only sustained block on their march to victory was a 15-minute delay while the new Court No 1 was closed for the first time in a competitive match as darkness descended on SW19.
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