Title says it all. FANTASTIC! Well done Andy Murray

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What a match it was too. That guy is the real deal. Ours - 2008 Stornoway Grey HSE Auto
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Nice earnings £1.6m for a little bit of work for a short time, let alone money for promotional products which will bring in a few more £m no doubt. Sorry but sportsmen are overpaid compared with the average worker. Ex 2010 Freelander2 GS-e Diesel manual Silver owner

Agreed about the pay realspeed but it was a fantastic performance and a great achievement. LL.B (Hons) - University of Derby
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I missed it. Driving back from the Cotswolds, but heard the news. Well done Murray!

I'm not a mouthpiece for professional sports but "£1.6m for a little bit of work for a short time" isn't the whole picture. It's more like £1.6m for two decades of unremitting personal gruelling hard work & dedication to a personal goal, with other of life's aspects put to one side.

It's like me asking for £100k a year for being an IT specialist. What I do is relatively trivial but it's the years of work, study, learning, personal effort etc. It just happens that sport is somewhat better paid.

Oh and by the way, I am pleased for him. ...

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Missed it, I was watching some real athletes competing in the tour! Now that is gruelling

I'm not a big fan of Murray but the guy has fought and trained hard to get to where he is today.

Unlike some of today's cyclists, who get a helping hand from the illegal substances they pump into themselves. 21MY Defender 90 S 3.0 D200

I heard he had, not interested in tennis all the grunting and shouting

Only saw some leggy blonde with a nice racket playing with some bloke because it messed up my Top Gear viewing

Hopefully after tomorrow news that will be the end of tennis for another year Former Mod/Member, with the most post & Chicken George Arch nemesis

Unfortunately up here we will probably here about it until next Wimbledon  21MY Defender 90 S 3.0 D200

piattj wrote:

I'm not a mouthpiece for professional sports but "£1.6m for a little bit of work for a short time" isn't the whole picture. It's more like £1.6m for two decades of unremitting personal gruelling hard work & dedication to a personal goal, with other of life's aspects put to one side.
Oh and by the way, I am pleased for him.

I doubt he's been below the breadline though, he has had income for other matches to see him through till today's bumper pay packet. He's also given his winnings from the Aegon tournament to the Royal Marsden  p****d off with a Digital Keyboard Warrior

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Unfortunately up here we will probably here about it until next Wimbledon

but he did do rather well

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I must admit that I was getting jittery about whether the BBC would dump TG if the whole Wimblething overran...  ...

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All credit to Murray for running around in 30 deg heat.... however I've got a firm suspicion that Ivan Lendl is due a lot of credit for getting Murray to this point.

Whatever Murray pays him, it's clearly been worth it.

It caused me to reflect on Warren Gatland & the sh itstorm he flew into for dropping BO'D for the recent Lions match. OK one game, too early to draw conclusion etc but it strikes me a good example of a man in possession of the data,
willing to take & push the tough decisions needed for success.

Or I may be over-romanticising it. Who knows? ...

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Fantastic! A thrilling match to watch too, 3 straight sets really doesn't tell the whole story.

Been waiting a looooong time for a Brit to win the mens championship...was worth it

Agree re Lendl, he seems to have been the final piece in the jigsaw to get Murray at the Federer/Nadal/Djokovic level. Murray has made strides in mastering his thoughts and emotions with the help of Lendl compared with a few years ago...kudos indeed.

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