It was a busy weekend for sports fans. One of the stories that may have slipped by is that a British tennis player is in a Grand Slam Championship match. Andy Murray will take on the 4-time defending champion Roger Federer today at 4 pm (you can catch the match on CBS).
Murray looked very impressive yesterday, dismantling Rafael Nadal in a match that was carried over from the previous day due to rain. Murray executed pinpoint shots against Nadal, and made the No. 1 player in the world work hard for every point.
The championship match today could be quite historic. Should Murray win, he would become the first British male to win a Grand Slam event since Fred Perry. Britons have waited a long time for "the next Perry." Perry won all 4 Grand Slam events, including 3 Wimbledons and 3 US Opens, and he won 8 Grand Slam titles in all. But the last title came in 1936, when he won his third US Open. The last British female to win a Grand Slam title was Virginia Wade, who won Wimbledon in 1977.
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