Andy Murray occasionally likes to dwell on memorable victories, especially at Wimbledon which he regards as his sanctuary – yet he says he rarely looks back at his finest achievement there, winning the title in 2013.
He will be back at the All England Club in a fortnight, buoyed by reaching the semi-finals of the French Open last weekend, although he lost there again to Novak Djokovic, who also beat him in the final in Melbourne. Wimbledon, though, is the scene of his most emphatic win over the Serb, in three nervy sets, to break the stranglehold of history that was choking the life out of British tennis since Fred Perry’s pre-war glory days.