It was July 2016. We had just been to the polls over Brexit. Leicester City were Premier League champions. England held the Ashes.
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And on the grass courts of Wimbledon, British tennis was at its peak.
Home players had won a record five of that year’s prizes at the All England Club â and few will forget Andy Murray kissing, hugging and lifting the golden men’s singles trophy for a second time.
Murray – now Sir Andy – will return to SW19 this week in the coaching box, working with Jack Draper, one of the many British players in this year’s draw who were inspired by his exploits on that day.
Match Details
A decade on, we revisit the greatest weekend in British tennis through the eyes of those who were there.
Court 17 (play starts 11:00 BST)
Three hours before Murray’s final started on Centre Court fans packed into a small outside court to watch the very first wheelchair singles final.
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That court has just 276 seats but there were many more people peering over from the top of the neighbouring one as Gordon Reid took on Sweden’s Paralympic champion Stefan Olsson.
Reid, who had won the wheelchair doubles title with Alfie Hewett the previous day for the first of the 24 Grand Slam titles they have now won together, remembers there was “a real positivity and a real buzz around the British players that weekend”.
He’d had to move hotels the previous night because of a party next door. A sleepless night averted, he went on to win 6-1 6-4.
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