Racquet Depot UK Salutes Andy Murray as He Secures His Maiden Grand Slam at the US Open

Sept. 12, 2012 - PRLog -- Andy Murray has finally bagged his first ever Grand Slam with victory over Novak Djokovic in the US Open Final, and everybody at Racquet Depot is over the moon.
Huge congratulations from the Racquet Depot team to Andy Murray, who now becomes the first male British Grand Slam champion since Fred Perry in 1936.

The Scot ended his long quest for a Grand Slam victory after a long and hard-fought, five-set tussle with the Serbian World Number 2. Murray took the first set after an epic tie-break, which seemed like it might never end.

With the first set under his belt, Murray blazed into 4-0 lead in the second, and looked to be seriously in the ascendency. He was confident and Djokovic was committing an unusually high number of unforced errors; clearly reeling from losing the first set battle. But the Serb is an immense force and he did manage to break back and come into the contest once more, before Murray served out a two set lead.

The warning signs showed by Djokovic late in the second set were fully realised as a he romped to 6-2 third set victory, and the befuddled Scotsman seemed to visibly wilt in front of a huge Monday crowd at Flushing Meadows. Djokovic tied the contest by winning the fourth set 6-3, and many expected his momentum to carry him through the decider, but this was Andy Murray’s day.

He broke the Djokovic serve twice early on in the set to take a 3-0 lead, and now the finish line was tantalisingly within reach, but Djokovic broke straight back to keep the contest on a knife edge. Murray would need all of his concentration and resilience to see out the contest, and that is just what he did, breaking serve again and then serving out for the championship and writing himself into the history books.

After the heartbreak of his Wimbledon final defeat, Andy Murray has truly shown what he is made of securing Gold for Team GB at the Olympic Games in London before winning his first Grand Slam at the next time of asking. The Sports Personality of the Year Award will be as hotly contested as ever this year, but Andy Murray has surely played himself into the reckoning.

He definitely gets the Racquet Depot vote.

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