Andy Murray has written his name with golden letters in the list of Tennis Legends by becoming the first ever player to win two Olympic singles titles back to back. He reignited his London 2012 glory when he defeated Argentina’s Juan Martin Del Potro 7-5, 4-6, 7-5 in an epic final. This medal was yet another glorious addition to the grand slam collection of the 2012 US Open and 2013 and 2013 Wimbledon crowns. The 29 years old is arguably the greatest player from England and has a current winning streak of 18 matches.
Coming back to the title defense; it was long and tiring match where Del Potro wasn’t allowing easy points and Murray was not willing to let go his singles crown. The first, second and third set was full of ups-down, stress, mental and physical battle between the two players. If five sets were allowed in the Olympics the match might as well have had gone to the fifth set as both players were at their best.
Del Potro of Argentina made his mark when he defeated favorite Novak Djokovic in the first round of the Olympic games. With the early loss of Roger Federer and Djokovic it was all hoped that either there will be new player crowned for the title or there will be epic final. With 64 players in the first round it was down to two players who were on the verge of making history; Murray by defending his title and Del Potro by becoming the first player from Argentina to win it, if he could. And the final was won by Andy Murray with 10 aces and 46 crunching winners.
And closing the Olympic tennis Singles event was the bronze medal match between Rafael Nadal and Kei Nishikori of Japan wherein the Japanese defeated the king of clay in three sets to win the bronze medal.