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.
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.
The champagne flowed. Mainly all over him as his friends and family drenched him as he made his way to the media centre after the match.
And there were soon more celebrations as Jordanne Whiley became the second Briton to win that day when she and Yui Kamiji won their third consecutive Wimbledon women’s wheelchair doubles title.
At this point Murray was in the early stages of his final on Centre Court.
