Although, Nadal lost in the men’s singles event, he was able to bring glory for his country by winning the Olympic gold medal in men’s doubles.
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Murray has already added a second Wimbledon title to his collection in 2016 and was runner-up to world number one Novak Djokovic at the Australian and French Opens. In 2013, Murray outlasted the field at Wimbledon to become the tournament’s first British men’s singles champion since 1936. He teamed up with the another talented tennis player, Marc Lopez. What I have been doing in four months he has been doing all year.
“It’s surreal that I even came out with any hardware at all, it’s so well contested here”, she said.
“For now the US Open is the next big goal”. I haven’t won every one but I’ve been close and had some good wins against the top players.
The Argentine player’s world ranking is now too low at 141st for him to gain direct entry into the final Grand Slam of the year in NY. During a stretch of six matches in eight days, Murray was pushed to the brink by Italy’s Fabio Fognini in the third round.
“But this was difficult emotionally, it was physically hard”.
Perhaps that’s why he loves the Olympics so much, the chance to be just one of the team, rather than the team.
“It is a numbers game then about how many Grand Slams he ends up winning but what he has achieved has been incredible to watch”.
“I was tremendously exhausted”.
The see-saw match featured 14 breaks of serve in front of a raucous crowd.
“The fact it’s not been done before shows it’s very hard so I’m proud to have done that”, he said of retaining the title.
Epa05485750 Gold medal victor Andy Murray of Great Britain celebrates after the awarding ceremony of men’s singles gold medal match of the Rio 2016 Olympic Games Tennis events at the Olympic Tennis Centre in the Olympic Park in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, 14 August 2016.
With two golds in the bag, Murray refused to entertain thoughts of a third gold at the 2020 Olympics in Tokyo. He played for seven hours on Saturday and Sunday, first beating Nadal in a thriller and then losing to Andy Murray in four sets, fighting as hard as he could.
“Anything could have happened”, said Murray, who took the last four games after trailing 5-3 in the fourth set.
But the world number two had time to pay tribute to Del Potro. I struggled that whole tournament.
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“They cheered me and with great respect. It was the crowd that made me keep running”.
