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Game, set, match Murray

TALK to Sir Andy Murray about sport and the conversation doesn’t stay on tennis for long. He’s as interested in football, in boxing, in golf. So his intervention on the great Wimbledon ranking points debate was priceless. ‘I follow golf very closely and have no idea how many ranking points the winner of the Masters gets,’ Murray wrote. ‘Me and my friends love football and none of us know or care how many ranking points a team gets for winning the World Cup. But I could tell you exactly who won the World Cup and the Masters. ‘I’d hazard a guess most people watching on Centre Court at Wimbledon in a few weeks’ time wouldn’t know or care about how many ranking points a player gets for winning a third-round match. But I guarantee they will remember who wins. Wimbledon will never be an exhibition and will never feel like an exhibition. The end.’ And, usually, on social media a post that concludes with such a definitive is only just the beginning of a squawk-fest. But Murray had delivered an unstoppable winner. For Naomi Osaka, and all the other waverers, there truly is no comeback from that.

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