Fans Have Finally Fallen for Murray ; British No1 Wins Over the Crowd with His Thrilling Victory Over Richard Gasquet in the Gathering Gloom Last Night. By Chris Joneswimbledon 2008 Wimbledon 2008

Evening Standard - London › October 02, 2008

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AS THE digital clock on the scoreboard reached 9.30pm the ghostly white figure at the far end of Centre Court raised his arms and was engulfed in a blaze of flashlights.

Everyone present wanted to capture the moment when Andy Murray arrived as a British tennis icon.

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Fans Have Finally Fallen for Murray ; British No1 Wins Over the Crowd with His Thrilling Victory Over Richard Gasquet in the Gathering Gloom Last Night. By Chris Joneswimbledon 2008 Wimbledon 2008

It was the end of three hours and 57 minutes of one of the most amazing matches in the history of this wonderful championships.

The green and yellow numbers on that scoreboard showed Murray had won 5-7, 3-6, 7-6, 6-2, 6-4 against eighth seed Richard Gasquet, but there was so much more to this fourth-round contest than mere statistics.

It was a marvellous rollercoaster of a ride that would normally have been halted long before the final point was won because, in truth, it was just too dark to see. Gasquet, who had total control of the match until the third-set tie break, repeatedly asked for the um...

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