Revenge is a Dish Best Served Gold

After the tears and disappointment of four weeks ago only the unfaithful were contemplating a repeated defeat. On a high from the Super Saturday of the gold Olympic success, team GB came out fighting again on Sunday Andy Murray finally got a win he has been training for and truly deserved.

A week of tremendous work from the British number one tennis athlete came with an astonishing penultimate battle against the world number two Novac Djockovic, who can move effortlessly around the court and is renowned for his powerful serves and baseline returns.

The play from this match alone was enthralling, the superb players creating rallies full of dynamic and nail-biting shots, it really was a joy to watch. Murray played the best tennis of his life and looked confident and focused as he beat the Serbian in straight sets. It was this match that gave us all, and Murray himself,  the belief that he was in with a good chance of winning gold.

The replicated conditions were perfect for Murray, who clearly wanted this win more, even though this could have given Federer a Career Golden Slam. Despite Andy Murray starting well he knew that he could not let his guard down with the wall that is Roger Federer, as he has an unbelievable talent of being able to swing back into the game at any moment. The Swiss is considered the best tennis player of all time because of his ability to play consistently on all court types and to be able to have the lightest touch for a surprise serve and volley or power down to the baseline.

Murray was able to keep his focus and break serve early on, and with the crowd behind him it was difficult for Roger to find the momentum to come back, at one point he had not won a game for one hour. There were some excellent heart-stopping net rallies and some of the ground strokes Murray was hitting were beautiful. Although Murray was finding it difficult to find his first serve at times, his second serve was full of accuracy and power that Federer did not expect, causing some costly unforced errors.

The better player won on the day, the ever cool Federer taking defeat graciously, Murray declaring it his "biggest win". Now the pressure is back on with all eyes on a British Gram Slam win. Murray is yet to confirm his appearance at the US Open, due to start on 27th August, a decision he says he will make after he touches down in Canada for the Toronto Masters. But could this confidence boost be the one he needs for the win?

Questions too for Federer, is he now curving out of his peak? Has the winning of Wimbledon 2012 allowed him to feel as though he has done enough in men's singles tennis and lost his momentum? He too is yet to confirm the US Open along with many other tennis players who have pushed themselves in the London 2012 Olympics.

As we wait for the answers we bask in the golden glory of Murray and Team GB.