Sunday 7th July 2013….day one of the trip back to SMA!!!

Had another good sleep and was up by 7am and got packed said a wonderful thank you to my hosts Barb and Joe and of course my new friend Heidi and went to L & G’s place….we got everything packed in the van and we were on the road by 9am…Guy does so well he needs oxygen all the time so between the big house machine and the portable machine he does well…never once heard him complain.

The journey was good and no problems except for one small diversion where the local people were doing a protest and had the road blocked off it seemed all the trucks and buses were not allowed through but cars were diverted through the back of town it could have ben much worse if we had got stuck in the traffic but 10 minutes later we were through…the only other issue was the number of breaks Linda needed….I have told her she is NOT allowed to drink anything tomorrow!!!!

Drove 440 miles and at 5pm we were in the city of Obregon where Linda had booked a hotel…..I got them settled into their room with all the equipment Guy needed and then we met in the restaurant and had a lovely meal and then I went for a long walk unfortunately I was not close to the beach or the town center but I did find a Wal-Mart to walk around.

That is the hotel in the back ground.

Very nice rooms.

After my walk I had a long shower and here we are again and it is 10.30pm….

Both Linda and Guy did really well today and it was a pleasant drive and we managed to catch up on all our news…..

English and Scottish tennis fans are celebrating today!!

 

Wimbledon

By Piers Newbery BBC Sport at Wimbledon

 

Andy Murray won his first Wimbledon title and ended Britain's 77-year wait for a men's champion with a hard-fought victory over world number one Novak Djokovic.

The Scot, 26, converted his fourth championship point in a dramatic final game to win 6-4 7-5 6-4 and claim his second major title.

In an atmosphere reminiscent of his Olympic final win last summer, Murray was willed on by the majority of the 15,000 spectators on Centre Court, thousands watching on the nearby big screen and millions more around the country.

Murray's victory

• Wimbledon is Murray's second Grand Slam title after he won the 2012 US Open
• It is the 36th time a British man has won the Wimbledon singles title - more than any other nation
• Fred Perry was the last British man to win Wimbledon, completing a hat-trick of wins in 1936
• Harold Mahony was the only other Scotsman to win the Wimbledon singles title - in 1896
• Murray is the most successful British man in terms of Grand Slam match wins with 113, ahead of Fred Perry on 106
• Fred Perry won eight Grand Slam titles - three Wimbledons, three French Opens, one US Open and one Australian Open
• Murray has reached seven Grand Slam finals, behind Fred Perry on 10

The final game was a battle in itself, with Murray seeing three match points slip by from 40-0 and fending off three Djokovic break points with some fearless hitting, before the Serb netted a backhand to end the contest.

After a gruelling three hours 10 minutes in searing temperatures, Murray had finally followed in the footsteps of Fred Perry's 1936 win at the All England Club.

Perry used to leap over the net in celebration, but Britain's new champion roared in delight before sinking to his knees on the turf.

Murray then headed into the stands to celebrate with his family and support team, moments later parading the trophy around Centre Court.

He could barely believe he had won saying: "It feels slightly different to last year. Last year was one of the toughest moments of my career, so to manage to win the tournament today...

"It was an unbelievably tough match, so many long games."

He later tweeted: "Can't believe what's just happened!!!!!!!"

And he gathered his thoughts in a BBC TV interview telling Sue Barker: "It was tough speaking after the match. There are a lot of people who have worked with me over the last 10 or 15 years or so.

Tim Henman on Murray's win

"I was privileged enough to go into the locker room straight after the match and Andy was basically in a state of shock. I just gave him a big hug when I got in there and said 'I really don't know how you did that' and he said 'nor do I'."

 

"I didn't know what to do with myself. The noise levels during the whole match were just incredible."

The Dunblane native becomes Scotland's first Wimbledon singles champion since Harold Mahony in 1896.

Murray had been on top from the outset against an unusually erratic Djokovic, finally converting his seventh break point after three dramatic games that took 20 minutes.

The home supporters were brought down immediately when Djokovic recovered the break to love, but the Serb was leaking errors and his 13th in just seven games saw Murray move clear again at 4-3.

A tense game followed after Murray, serving into the sun, opened with two double faults, but he fought his way out of three break points and served out the set to love.

An hour gone, and all was going to plan for the British number one, but Djokovic began to find his range in the early stages of the second set.

 

 

The top seed got the better of two rallies approaching 30 strokes as he broke on his way to a 4-1 lead, and looked on course to level at 15-30 in the following game, but Murray would not give it up.

Having struggled to defend his own second serve, Murray now turned the tables and put the pressure on Djokovic, and the Serb succumbed with a double fault to give up his advantage in game seven.

Murray was the man in command once again and when he cracked a 128mph ace and a nerveless smash to save two break points for 4-4, the crowd sensed a real opportunity developing.

Djokovic was vulnerable and he showed it with a tirade at the umpire over a line call when serving at 5-5, but he had run out of Hawk-Eye challenges and moments later netted a forehand to give Murray a priceless opportunity.

Once again, Murray found his best serving form when he needed it most, closing out the set to love with an ace to bring the Centre Court crowd to its feet.

The sense of hope around the stadium became something closer to disbelief when Murray raced in to pick up a drop shot and hammer a forehand on his way to a break at the start of the third, and he threatened to run away with it with seven out of eight games.

Back Djokovic came, throwing in drop shots to get the Briton on the run and reeling off four straight games on his way to a 4-2 lead, but Murray was not to be denied.

 

Wimbledon 2013: Novak Djokovic congratulates the Wimbledon Champion

He wrestled back the initiative to level at 4-4 and surged on, hammering away at the Djokovic forehand and drawing yet another error to move 5-4 clear.

All that was left was to serve for the title, and it was never likely to be straightforward, but after 10 tortuous minutes Murray stepped in and cracked a forehand that Djokovic could only put in the net.

The Scot added: "I have played in a lot of Slam finals, all against Roger or Novak. Roger is probably the greatest player ever, Novak is one of the mentally strongest ever. I never had experience on my side, to beat him was so tough, it was such a tough match

  He cannot believe he won!!!

Yashi Koshi!!