Like Murray, Millman will be representing his country at the Rio Olympics thanks to the unavailability of Nick Kyrgios and Bernie Tomic, and that is reward for popular Australian’s fight back from a period out of tennis.
Now, he wants to make the best of his talent knowing that at 27-years-old, he still has time to make his mark.
After 12 minutes of his Centre Court debut, Millman managed to win his first game to trail 1-3 and used that confidence boost to put pressure on Murray.
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He managed to break the Scot in the fifth game allowing him to show a clenched fist to his coaches as the crowd started to realise this could be a much closer contest than they anticipated after the opening games. But typical of Murray, he responded by breaking back to love and lead 4-2.
Murray’s fourth ace of the set put him in the position to take the opening set 6-3 after 33 minutes.
The players were forced off by rain after the first point of the second set and when they came back, only two more points were possible before they went off again.
The decision to close the roof was a popular one and at least ensured the match would continue without further interruption, and Millman held serve to move 2-1 ahead.
As the Centre Court started to buzz with news that defending champion Novak Djokovic had been knocked out in four sets by Sam Querrey, Murray broke to lead 5-4 only for Millman to rise to the challenge again to level it 5-5.
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Murray would not be denied and got the break back at 6-5 after a very long game and served out the set 7-5 after 101 minutes of tough tennis.
Murray broke at the start of the third and Millman’s commitment saw him hit the turf trying to get the ball back. However, his resistance didn’t last much longer.
