Andy Murray is a two-time Wimbledon champion, having won the tournament in 2013 and 2016.
After losing to Roger Federer in the 2012 final, Murray defeated Novak Djokovic the following year to hold the famous trophy aloft on Centre Court for the first time, ending the 76-year-long British drought at the championships.
Three years later, he would make it two, beating Milos Raonic in the final to clinch his third Grand Slam title.
It took the Briton eight attempts to finally win it all at Wimbledon, the first of which came in 2005.
That year, aged 18, he earned his first win at the All England Club in his debut at the tournament, defeating George Bastl of Switzerland in straight sets.
Following the conclusion of his first match at the event, Murray gave his immediate reaction to the media on what he deemed a surprising win.
What Andy Murray was surprised by after winning his first match at Wimbledon
When asked in his post-match press conference if he expected to be so dominant in the match, Murray responded: “No, not really. I wasn’t really expecting to win.
“Obviously, he’s much better than me. He’s maybe 200 places higher than me in the rankings, and he’s won against Sampras here, so I wasn’t expecting to do so well.
“But once I got the break in the first set, I thought I played really well after that because at the start I was having a lot of chances on his serve and he didn’t really have any chances on mine. But when I got the break, I relaxed and I played pretty well.
“I don’t go on court expecting to lose, but I don’t feel so much pressure because the guys I’m playing against now are much better than me.
“If I lose, okay, I lost to a better player, and I’ve learnt something. But if I win, then it’s great, I’ve won against a guy that’s got a higher ranking than me.
“When I go on court, I’m going to try my best to win, but I’m just not expecting to do so well. If I lose, I’m not going to feel really badly about it.”
Andy Murray’s response to being dubbed Britain’s ‘great new hope’
Murray was then asked: “If you were referred to as the great new hope of British tennis, which you have been, what would you make of that?”
He responded: “Yeah, well, I think I am. I think there’s a lot of good players in Britain now, from the younger ones who are doing not bad.
“But, obviously, my results have been the best out of the lot of them. So everybody’s going to say that I am the new hope.
“I just have to do what I’m doing on the court. It doesn’t really bother me,” he concluded.
The two-time Olympic gold medallist went on to become arguably the greatest British tennis player of all time.
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