Article: Scot serves up some cheer from the shadows Andy Murray firmly turned attention back to SW19, writes Brough Scott

ANDY MURRAY was playing his first set tie-break just as England began the penalty shoot-out. At the time most of the nation would have thought it was the less significant occasion. Now we can't be so sure.

For Andy Murray does not need a musingly muddled Swede to make claims of world potential. The way he hung on to take that tie-break and then to counter and overcome all that the No 3 seed could throw at him is a statement in itself. Andy Roddick is a fearsome presence on a tennis court and offers a lot more than the ferocious serve which was working with its full venom yesterday. But Andy Murray belonged there. The score did not lie.

The news that he had clinched that tie-break sent us ...

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