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Simon Kelner: Calm down everyone, it was only a game of tennis
Monday 09 July 2012
What does it mean if you weren't in the least bit excited by Andy Murray? Does it signify a lack of patriotism? Or is it because tennis is a sport that fails to get your juices flowing? Or maybe you're just a misery guts. Or perhaps a little bit of all three.
Beaten finalist will return for golden second chance
Monday 09 July 2012
The Scot will be back at Wimbledon in 19 days' time in a quest to win the Olympics
Brian Viner: And so the long wait goes on
Monday 09 July 2012
'Feelgood factor' is a nebulous concept. But sport does make life brighter
Trending: Royal Box? Actually, I'm invited to join the Federers…
Monday 09 July 2012
Watching the Men's final in the Royal Box at Wimbledon yesterday was a mix of aristocrats, politicians, Olympians and, er, the Beckhams.
James Lawton: Brave Andy Murray struggles in vain to break Roger Federer's magical grip on greatness
Monday 09 July 2012
It was a brilliant final, the best since arguably the greatest of all in 2008
Wimbledon Final reaction: how the stars saw Andy Murray-Roger Federer unfold
Monday 09 July 2012
Boris Becker: "[Andy Murray] lost to a better player today. Most successful tennis player of all time and there's no shame in losing to Roger Federer."
Now take a leaf from Ivan Lendl's book, Andy Murray, and try, try, try again
Monday 09 July 2012
It will take time for the disappointment to subside, but when Andy Murray looks back on his first Wimbledon final he will surely take pride in his performance. Roger Federer won 4-6, 7-5, 6-3, 6-4 to claim his seventh All England Club title, but Murray made the 30-year-old Swiss produce one of the finest performances of his career.
Serena Williams emerges from adversity to prove her lasting greatness
Monday 09 July 2012
Five-times champion lives up to her claim of controlling her own destiny
Britain has no place in Olympic Games for Jonathan Marray the history man
Monday 09 July 2012
Journeyman earns a ticket to grander destinations, but not the Olympics
Chris McGrath: Nostalgic BBC writes tennis history before it happens
Monday 09 July 2012
View From The Sofa: Did Andrew Castle have a verbal time capsule ready for future generations?
Mark Steel: Well done Andy Murray, some people in the pub even put their pints down
Monday 09 July 2012
By the time Murray went up by a set and a break a heart attack was a dreadful worry, as there'd be no television in the ambulance
British glory guaranteed – as champion spectators
Monday 09 July 2012
Murray's march to the final sets up an epic summer of sport but home success fails to boost participation, says Glenn Moore
What now for Andy Murray?
Monday 09 July 2012
The Scot will be back at Wimbledon in three weeks' time in a quest to land the 'ultimate' sporting prize
Grace Dent: We were all in it together (but Cliff Richard was on his own with that jacket)
Monday 09 July 2012
During a Summer where the BBC's live event coverage has been much maligned as "dull", the Wimbledon Men's Singles Final needed to pack a punch. "Once they were boys…Now they are men," exploded one of the many heart-murmur inducing montages in the hour-long Sue Barker fronted pre-show, "They are WARRIORS of sport!"
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