Andy Murray Wins Wimbledon

[stowe1]

Andy Murray has won The Men's Singles Championship at Wimbledon. He ends the 77 year drought of Britons not winning.
Congratulations to him, the citizens of Great Britain, Scotland, and the Commonwealth and members of the forum thereof.

 

[andy]

About time!!

 

[joninliverton]

Andy Murray has won The Men's Singles Championship at Wimbledon. He ends the 77 year drought of Britons not winning.
Congratulations to him, the citizens of Great Britain, Scotland, and the Commonwealth and members of the forum thereof.

Thanks my friend. Yes it has taken 77 years for a British player to repeat Fred Perry's win but it has been tough. The British government have never really put money into sport until the National Lottery came along. We did not have sports only colleges where people just studied sports and were trained by the highest standard tutors.

Andy Murray comes from a small village called Dunblane an I quote the following

"Murray attended Dunblane Primary School, and was present during the 1996 Dunblane school massacre,[SUP][8][/SUP] when Thomas Hamilton killed 17 people before shooting himself. Murray took cover in a classroom"

The great Wimbledon champion Boris Becker was part of the BBC commentary team today and he summed up Andy's succes with a brief resume of his life thus far. For someone to have gone through such a harrowing experience, then overcome this experience and battle against all the odds to come this far, then it is a magnificent achievement.

Oh don't forget he won the US Open last year and the Olympic Gold medal.

Well done Andy

 

[peterh6308]

Great job Andy! With everything else he's gone through he had the whole country pressure behind him also. That I think was the hardest thing that Tim Henman had to deal with.

 

[KRU1996]

Alas, Andy Murray a real hottie if one noticed his sexy tight ass in those clingy swetdrenched shorts won the Big W and how unfortunate that there were sustained shots of that slattern guttersnipe identified as his gf.- such a waste to think that his sweatdripping nutsack will go to waste.....Hopefully Rafa will eventually come out as the hot capripants wearing ubersexpot gay guy he ought to be...

 

[stowe1]

Thanks my friend. Yes it has taken 77 years for a British player to repeat Fred Perry's win but it has been tough. The British government have never really put money into sport until the National Lottery came along. We did not have sports only colleges where people just studied sports and were trained by the highest standard tutors.

Andy Murray comes from a small village called Dunblane an I quote the following

"Murray attended Dunblane Primary School, and was present during the 1996 Dunblane school massacre,[SUP][8][/SUP] when Thomas Hamilton killed 17 people before shooting himself. Murray took cover in a classroom"

The great Wimbledon champion Boris Becker was part of the BBC commentary team today and he summed up Andy's succes with a brief resume of his life thus far. For someone to have gone through such a harrowing experience, then overcome this experience and battle against all the odds to come this far, then it is a magnificent achievement.

Oh don't forget he won the US Open last year and the Olympic Gold medal.

Well done Andy

Oh, I didn't forget. But those wins pale in significance to his win at Wimbledon on Sunday.

 

[joninliverton]

I'm sure that in December he will be crowned Sports personality of the year and will probably be Sir Andy in the New Years honours list. Mr McEnroe thinks he can now win 6 Grand Slam titles, only time will tell. Both Andy and Novak, who are exactly the same age give just one week, are in their prime at 26.

One really has to admire the way he has come through all the pressure the Brits put on their players at Wimbledon. But the biggest admiration is how he ever came through after the harrowing experience he had at school. That would have been enough to have left mental scars on the strongest of people.

 

[Ambivalent]

I'm sure that in December he will be crowned Sports personality of the year and will probably be Sir Andy in the New Years honours list. Mr McEnroe thinks he can now win 6 Grand Slam titles, only time will tell. Both Andy and Novak, who are exactly the same age give just one week, are in their prime at 26.

One really has to admire the way he has come through all the pressure the Brits put on their players at Wimbledon. But the biggest admiration is how he ever came through after the harrowing experience he had at school. That would have been enough to have left mental scars on the strongest of people.

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Jon,

Totally agreed. And congratulations to Mr. Murray. The most touching moment of all, for me, was seeing his Grannie interviewed on a clip they showed here in Canada, telling how proud she was of Andy.

"A" XOXOXOXO

 

[joninliverton]

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Jon,

Totally agreed. And congratulations to Mr. Murray. The most touching moment of all, for me, was seeing his Grannie interviewed on a clip they showed here in Canada, telling how proud she was of Andy.

"A" XOXOXOXO

There was a good debate yesterday on the Jeremy Vine show on BBC Radio 2. The question was not whether Andy would get a knighthood but when. And I must agree after thinking about it and listening to both sides of the argument, that it would be better if they left this honour until he retired.

 

[tampa24]

 

[joninliverton]

I do not have to justify my threads with worthless pics. If you want to add them feel free..

 

[mikeyank]

I do not have to justify my threads with worthless pics. If you want to add them feel free..

I volunteer.

 

[tampa24]

So that's what he looks like. Thanks Mikey.

 

[joninliverton]

So that's what he looks like. Thanks Mikey.

Surely you must have seen Andy Murray on TV before. Didn't you watch the olympics or the US open last year ? Did you not watch Wimbledon last week ?

There is much more to Andy Murray than his pics. I admire him from what he's been through as a kid and how he came out of that trauma to become a winner. I think that says it all...

 

[tampa24]

I'm actually not a tennis fan Jon. I know that may be sacrilege to admit to across the pond. lol Yet I'm also very intrigued by the backstories of many Olympic athletes who have overcome great adversity to achieve so much in their sport. That's true for me even with athletes whose sports I don't normally follow. Sometimes I've started following certain sports more just because I was so inspired by certain athletes and their life stories. You appear to have already been inspired by him since you seem to resent him being objectified as just a pretty face. Can you share any info or links to info that would help humanize him a little more for me/us?

 

[broadbander]

The best kind of tennis involved soaking the tennis balls in gasoline beforehand...ignite one...serve!

 

[joninliverton]

I'm actually not a tennis fan Jon. I know that may be sacrilege to admit to across the pond. lol Yet I'm also very intrigued by the backstories of many Olympic athletes who have overcome great adversity to achieve so much in their sport. That's true for me even with athletes whose sports I don't normally follow. Sometimes I've started following certain sports more just because I was so inspired by certain athletes and their life stories. You appear to have already been inspired by him since you seem to resent him being objectified as just a pretty face. Can you share any info or links to info that would help humanize him a little more for me/us?

I would say tennis is more popular in the USA than over here - but that's 'cos there are more of you than us lol. Re Mr Murray - he is not renowned for his smiles but he smiles a lot more nowadays than he did say 4 years ago. He made one serious mistake, albeit just in jest when he joked with Tim Henman about some soccer tournament and said if England reached the final then he would support the opposition.

The tabloids got hold of that and forgot to mention that it was made in jest, and all hell broke loose. A lot of English people have never forgiven him and I know quite a few who wanted him to lose on Sunday.

Fortunately I'm not like that and I wanted him to win.

Anyone, especially an 8 year old kid, who was at a school when a gunman came in and killed 17 kids and has reached the heights that Andy has deserves great recognition and respect. With the amount of similar shootings that there has been in the States I'm sure you can relate to this.

 

[tampa24]

I can indeed understand that. I have followed some of the tennis news lately even though I'm not a big fan of the sport. I enjoyed reading about the two Polish players. About how Janowicz competed against another Pole to advance to the finals and becoming the first Pol in history to do so. It was such a heartwarming story to read how the losing payer came across the court and hugged Janowicz, shed a few tears with him over "their" victory for Poland, and then exchanged shirts with him like a footballer would.

It's the human interest stories that hold my interest more so than the sport itself.

And yes. I'm happy for the U.K. that Murray won.