British hope?

For years now every June in the south West of London a nation watches in hope rather than expectation. Their combined hope is that once again Wimbledon will have an British winner (last male winner was Frederick John Perry in 1936). In the recent past this expectation has fallen mainly on the shoulders of Tim Henman with support or lack of it from Greg Rusedski. With all the support of the home crowd and from Henman hill, he never really got close to acheiving his dream (his closest effort was reaching the semi final). But as Henman has now retired the pressure has now been firmly heaped on young Scottish starlet Andy Murray. After an excellent year he is starting to show the great talent that he possesses, with five tournament wins already this year, his most recent being his defense of the St. Petersburg Open. Ranked fourth in the world he has shown he can mix it with the big boys in the tennis world, knocking Nadal out in the semis of the US Open this year proved that. With his recent resurgence, many are hoping that he can finally end the drought of British Wimbledon winners and if he carries on his form of this year then it is a real possibility. One things for sure, Murray's mound will be packed to the rafters for many summers to come.