: Pause, rewind, play: Andy Murray’s back-to-back Olympic gold medals, a historic feat in tennis #IndiaNEWS Even as Roger Federer, Rafael Nadal and Novak Djokovic kept racking up one record after another,

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Pause, rewind, play: Andy Murray’s back-to-back Olympic gold medals, a historic feat in tennis #IndiaNEWS
Even as Roger Federer, Rafael Nadal and Novak Djokovic kept racking up one record after another, Andy Murray ensured the conversation was about the ‘big four’ in men’s tennis during his peak, and not just the ‘big three’. While his three Grand Slam victories and reaching world No 1 will remain a huge part of his legacy, the back-to-back gold medals for Great Britain at the Olympic Games set him apart from his legendary peers. Indeed Murray is the only tennis player, male or female, to win consecutive gold medals in the singles event at the Olympics.The first of these triumphs came at the London Games in 2012, playing on home turf at the All England Club. Just a few weeks earlier at Wimbledon, Murray had reached the final where he lost to Federer after taking the first set. But the duo then met again in the final of the Olympics and this time it was the Brit who came out on top.Murray was the third seed in that event as defending champion Nadal had pulled out due to a knee injury. He defeated Switzerland’s Stanislas Wawrinka and Finland’s Jarkko Nieminen in straight sets in the opening two rounds, before edging out Cypriot...Read more

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