10 Things I Learned From Wimbledon 2013
1. What The Hell Do We Do Now?
Like I mentioned in point 1 Andy Murray has won Wimbledon the first British male to win the trophy since the great Fred Perry was victorious in 1936. Murray did something that really none of us thought possible, yes its pessimistic of us but we are British its kinda our thing. So now its all good right? The curse is lifted on British tennis, the giant killer monkey on all our backs has been vanquished and its all good from here on out surely.
Well yes in a way but the fact remains now what, we have been obsessing over this for literally generations for it to suddenly happen the moment feels unreal like Sunday under that heat we all had a mass dream that Brit won Wimbledon and now we are all left in a state of shock. The worst part is because of all the hype we put on it, all the years of intense media coverage about it the feeling was everything would change if we just got a male tennis star and now we do and amazingly nothing major has changed afterwards.
77 years is an awfully long time to let something like not winning at your home tennis tournament to build and fester inside the minds of every British tennis fan so it will obviously take time so such an amazing moment to truly sink in. One thing that will change from Murrays win is that the medias coverage of Wimbledon will be miles different now we have a winner and no longer have to ask if it will be Andys year.
Instead we will wonder if he could retain it hell we might even want someone else to win it or just look forward to a great tournament without the seemingly never ending circus of waiting for a British player to win. You never know not stressing or praying for a Wimbledon winner might cool the passions we have for the tournament or make us love it even more as we are no longer worked up and thinking constantly about getting a British winner.
Whatever will happen Im already looking forward to 2014 even though Wimbledon will be lost in World Cup fever this year will ling long in the memories of everyone who watched it even though it might be hard for any of us to recall this year other than thinking of it as the year Sir Murray finally won Wimbledon.
Agree, disagree, watched Wimbledon and found it boring? Comments are welcome below