Article: Murray taking a baseball bat to his own caricature; Surly Scot to Highland warrior: in one epic match, Andy Murray has smashed his lugubrious public image lampooned in Headcases Picture: ITV.

Byline: PAUL HAYWARD

TELEVISION'S Spitting Image update, Headcases, runs a sketch called'Andy Murray Sings Party Classics' in which the new Popeye of British sportmumbles along to dance anthems like Alastair Darling reading out his Budget.

'Andy Murray's joyless moaning is the sound of summer,' exults the announcer aswe observe the hero of Centre Court droning: 'I'm a Barbie Girl, in a Barbieworld,' in a monotone that suggests he really is 'more miserable than a truckdriver paying fuel tax'.

It's hard to recall a figure in British life smashing his own public image asmacho Murray did against the gasket-blowing Richard Gasquet on Monday ...

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