Andy Murray ends up third best in the race of the Sports Personality of the Year - Tennis News
Despite reaching a final of the Wimbledon Championships, winning a Gold Medal at London Olympics and ending the 76-year drought in the history of British tennis by clinching a Grand Slam title at the US Open in New York; the 25-year-old
Andy Murray ended up at the third place in the British Broadcasting Corporation’s Sports Personality of the Year 2012.
Murray’s fellow Olympics Gold Medallist, Bradley Wiggins (cyclist) and Jessica Ennis (heptathlete), took the first and the second place respectively. The winners were chosen by the votes of 1.63 million respondents. Wiggins received
492,064 votes in his favour whilst Ennis captured 372,765. The third ranked Briton, Murray, gathered 230,444 altogether that earned him the place in the Top-3.
The 25-year-old Scot failed to appear at the award distribution ceremony in London due to acute morning sickness; had to visit the hospital to get tested for any disease. It is the first public event that he has missed ever since
his boom in the field of tennis. However, the team of the organizers were sent to the hospital to award the trophy to Murray which was broadcasted live through an old fashioned technique of capturing the whole scenario with an outside broadcast camera.
Murray has struggled in the past to beat the top athletes in the world of tennis. He wasn’t considered to be a serious threat beyond the quarter-finals of any of the four Grand Slam events. However, the Scot under the coaching
of the former world number one, Ivan Lendl, proved his worth for the first time at the All England Lawn Tennis Club in June-July.
He was mildly assisted in his Wimbledon final appearance by the early exit of the fourth ranked Spaniard, Rafael Nadal, who hurt his knee at the second round and lost a gruelling five-setter from a Czech underdog, Lukas Rosol.
Murray reached the final but couldn’t dethrone the King of Wimbledon, Roger Federer. The Swiss Maestro picked up his seventh Wimbledon trophy and took his tally of Grand Slam titles to 17.
Despite a major heart-break, Murray stayed focused and had his revenge over the 31-year-old Swiss in the final of Olympics; winning the Gold Medal at London. He carried the momentum ahead at the US Open and clinched the Grand Slam
title and became the first Briton to win a big-four trophy in 76 years. However, all these achievements were not good enough for the Scot to win the BBC Sports Personality of the Year.
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