The news that Andy Murray was voted the BBC's Sports Personality of the Year for 2013 hardly came as a great surprise. 2013 was another great year from the Scot as he became the first male Briton in 77 years to win a Wimbledon title. It's certainly a level of success that he will want to build on as he looks for further success in the future. Injuries also played their part towards the end of the season, and he is currently ranked number four in the world which is probably the position he has been him for most of his career. The idea of this slideshow is to look ahead to his career for 2014 and beyond, and consider why success is likely to follow the Brit. It's also that success which may inspire fellow British tennis players Heather Watson and Laura Robson to also lift Grand Slam titles in the year ahead. So, without further ado, let's get into this tennis inspired list...
5. Success Tends To Follow Success
The thing we have to say is that it's easier to carry on to be successful once the first one is in. This is analogy that can follow anyone really, sports person or not. Murray has worked hard on his career for a number of years, but success has only started to find him now. It's always tough when people have been saying that he is a bottler or simply not good enough to win a Grand Slam title. To a large extend he put an end to such talk in 2012 when he won the US Open and the gold medal at the London 2012 Olympic Games. However, those lingering doubts were going to continue to hang around unless he won Wimbledon. Wimbledon is the one tournament that people think of being as a little bit special, it's also the one that his fans are most likely to be able to watch. However, the pressure on Murray to win was great, so it says a lot that he was able to do that. Now, he has got over that initial hurdle he will find future success that little bit easier.
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The thing we have to say is that it's easier to carry on to be successful once the first one is in. This is analogy that can follow anyone really, sports person or not. Murray has worked hard on his career for a number of years, but success has only started to find him now. It's always tough when people have been saying that he is a bottler or simply not good enough to win a Grand Slam title. To a large extend he put an end to such talk in 2012 when he won the US Open and the gold medal at the London 2012 Olympic Games. However, those lingering doubts were going to continue to hang around unless he won Wimbledon. Wimbledon is the one tournament that people think of being as a little bit special, it's also the one that his fans are most likely to be able to watch. However, the pressure on Murray to win was great, so it says a lot that he was able to do that. Now, he has got over that initial hurdle he will find future success that little bit easier.