Andy Murray First British Men’s Wimbledon Finalist in 74 Years

Andy Murray defeated Jo-Wilfried Tsonga to become the first British player to make the gentlemen’s Wimbeldon finals since1938.
Andy Murray First British Men’s Wimbledon Finalist in 74 Years
Roger Federer celebrates match point during his Wimbledon Gentlemen's Singles semi-final match against Novak Djokovic. Clive Rose/Getty Images
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Andy Murray plays a double-handed backhand during his men's singles semi-final victory over France's Jo-Wilfried Tsonga in the 2012 Wimbledon Championships tennis tournament. (Leon Neal/AFP/GettyImages)

After faltering after two dominating sets, Scotland’s Andy Murray defeated Jo-Wilfried Tsonga to become the first tennis player from Great Britain to make the gentlemen’s Wimbeldon finals since Henry “Bunny” Austin in 1938.

Murray hopes to become the first British man to win a Grand Slam since Fred Perry accomplished the feat in 1936. Perry took three—Wimbledon and the French and U.S. Opens.

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