CNN's Amanda Davies catches up with the once hopeful and now disappointed British fans who watched Andy Murray.
The Rev. Sally Foster-Fulton doesn't expect worshippers at Dunblane Cathedral to tarry at the close of the second service Sunday.
Andy Murray becomes the first British man to make the Wimbledon finals in 74 years. CNN's Amanda Davies reports.
Andy Murray recorded a double triumph on Tuesday to book his place in the last eight at Wimbledon, over opponent Marin Cilic and the dismal weather in London.
Tennis legend Martina Navratilova discusses Rafael Nadal's surprise Wimbledon exit against Czech unknown Lukas Rosol.
Can new coach Ivan Lendl be a catalyst for Wimbledon success for Andy Murray?
Andy Murray's poor form going into the French Open continued as he lost to Richard Gasquet in the third round of the Rome Masters.
Britain's Andy Murray began his clay court campaign with an impressive straight sets win over Serbia's Viktor Troicki at the Monte Carlo Masters Tuesday.
Novak Djokovic retained his Miami Masters 1000 title with an emphatic 6-1 7-6 final victory over Britain's Andy Murray Sunday.
Fourth seed Andy Murray has crashed out of the prestigious Indian Wells tournament in California, beaten in straight sets by Spain's Guillermo Garcia-Lopez in his opening match.
Andy Murray won his first tournament since appointing Ivan Lendl as his new coach with a straight sets demolition of third seed Alexandr Dolgopolov of Ukraine in Brisbane Sunday.
So, Ken Hitchcock replaces Davis Payne behind the bench in St. Louis and one career coach is back in the NHL, where most who step behind the bench aspire to ply their trade. But there are only 30 such jobs in the league, so head coaching lifers go where the next opportunity/challenge presents itself. Some, like Hitchcock, get multiple chances at the NHL level to make a difference in various cities. Others never make it back or simply choose another direction. And while their coaching journeys are not intertwined directly, this tale has a distinct Blues thread running through it.
Roger Federer's hopes of a Swiss Indoors final rematch with Novak Djokovic were boosted when Andy Murray withdrew from the tournament on Wednesday.
Andy Murray romped to his third straight ATP Tour title and took over as world number three from Roger Federer with a 7-5 6-4 win over Spain's David Ferrer in the Shanghai Masters final Sunday.
Britain's Andy Murray cruised into the final of the Shanghai Masters with a straight sets thrashing of Japan's Kei Nishikori Saturday as he bids for a third straight title on the ATP Tour.
World number four Andy Murray continued his recent good form on Wednesday with a battling 7-6 (7-4) 2-6 6-4 first-round win over Marcos Baghdatis at the Japan Open.
Prince William and Catherine, Duchess of Cambridge, surprised tennis fans Monday, arriving at Wimbledon to watch British favorite Andy Murray.
Recently we seem to have had some especially spectacular and even tragic defeats. But, of course, in sport we don't devote much extended contemplation to those who lose -- unless, of course, they should come back and win.
The story should not be told with regret. It should be all about the flair and resolve of a champion, rising to the occasion as never before, and Novak Djokovic certainly came through mightily in that regard. It seems more likely, though, that the story of the Australian Open final was the curious disappearance of Andy Murray.
There's an old story about a jazz saxophonist who had stardom written all over him. He had the touch, a gift; anyone could see that. But somehow, things just didn't work out. Must have been the nerves. Every time he hit the big time -- New York, New Orleans, Chicago -- he bombed horribly, and he never did fulfill that promise.
After a few shaky weeks post-Wimbledon, it feels like tennis is back on the proverbial radar. A Best of Three from a fine week on the U.S. Open Series circuit.
The occasion cries out for an encore. Who wouldn't want to see Roger Federer and Rafael Nadal on Centre Court in the Wimbledon final, a reprise of the greatest match ever played?
Is Andy Murray about to become the next Guillermo Coria? --Simha, Atlanta
History was made last Friday at the Rogers Cup in Montreal, when the world's top eight players took part in the quarterfinals of the same tournament for the first time since the ATP Tour starting the rankings in August 1973.
WIMBLEDON, England -- While marveling at Venus Williams's play on grass....
Two years are tattooed on the English sports consciousness like scarlet letters of anguish and self-pity. One is 1966, the first and only time the Three Lions hoisted the World Cup. The other is 1937, the last time a British player won at Wimbledon.
CNN's Alex Thomas talks to Andy Murray about the weight of British expectation.
The San Jose Sharks' Todd McLellan, Boston Bruins' Claude Julien and St. Louis Blues' Andy Murray are finalists for the Jack Adams Award as the NHL's top coach.
This story appears in the April 13, 2009 issue of Sports Illustrated
For all the tradition coursing through Wimbledon -- the lords and ladies in the Royal Box, the queuing for grounds passes, the Pimm's cups with side orders of strawberries and cream -- this may be the most hidebound ritual of them all: Everyone in Great Britain becomes irrationally optimistic at the prospect of a homegrown male winning the tournament for the first time since Fred Perry in 1936. And then, when the player doesn't prevail, the entire country reacts with disproportionate anguish. When Tim Henman reached the Wimbledon semifinals in 2002, a headline in the Daily Mirror read: NO PRESSURE, TIMBO, BUT CHOKE NOW AND WE'LL NEVER FORGIVE YOU. When Henman fell to eventual champion Lleyton Hewitt, the next day's headline was NATION OF LOSERS. Even the staid London Observer once described rooting for British players at Wimbledon as "a national spasm of patriotic agony."
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Sometimes, sports has an awesome eye for irony. In tennis, the best one right now is this: The great hope of British tennis more closely resembles former British public enemy No.1 -- John McEnroe -- than any of the proper and refined players of the United Kingdom's sporting past.
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