Defeats once hung over Andy Murray’s head like a black cloud, raining on his mood, flooding his thoughts with negativity. The disappointment of losing big matches threatened to drown him, never more so than in the tournaments that followed his evisceration by Novak Djokovic in the Australian Open final in 2011.
Murray has grown as a person since those days and this ferocious competitor knows how to rationalise his losses now. Losing to Roger Federer at Wimbledon was a blow but he was back in the public eye a week later, excelling for Great Britain in their Davis Cup tie against France.