In the end, Milos Raonic's cannon couldn't knock down the wall built by Andy Murray.
Murray won his second Wimbledon championship on Sunday with a spirited performance built on precise return of serve. Raonic, the first Canadian to play for a Wimbledon title, was valiant but frustrated. Final score: 6-4, 7-6 (3), 7-6 (2).
Thousands of Britons, aching from recent pains of politics, crowded Wimbledon for the final. Murray, who is from Scotland, was seen as the antidote for relentless bad news following the Brexit vote.
Much like his 2013 victory, the first by a citizen of the tournament's host nation since 1936, Murray's triumph accompanied a patriotic fervor.