Great Britain’s Andy Murray is seen returning in his match with Spain’s Rafael Nadal in the semi-final at the Wimbledon Championships. (UPI
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Britain’s Andy Murray is taking heart from the performance of newly-crowned Wimbledon champion Novak Djokovic as he bids to break his Grand Slam duck.
Djokovic won his second major title of the year, and the third of his career, when he beat defending champion Rafael Nadal in the Wimbledon final on Sunday.
Murray has reached three finals and four semi-finals but is still searching for his first major—something no British man has achieved since Fred Perry won the last of his eight titles in 1936.
The 24-year-old Murray won the first set of his Wimbledon semi-final against Nadal last week, only to end the match well beaten.
But the Scot still believes one of the four majors—the Australian Open, the French Open, Wimbledon and the US Open—is within his grasp.
“I know it’s possible, just look at Novak Djokovic,” Murray wrote in his BBC website column yesterday.
“I remember watching Novak lose in the semi-finals of Wimbledon last year against Tomas Berdych and then a tough match against Rafa in the US Open final.
“He’s obviously improved a lot since then. That’s something I need to look at and try to replicate.
“I’m 24. Right now, this age is pretty much the time I’m going to be at my peak in terms of fitness and strength, so I need to sit down with my team and get the priorities sorted in terms of my game and my training.”
Murray will compete for Great Britain in a Davis Cup tie against Luxembourg in Glasgow later this week.
He will then travel to his training base in Miami ahead of the hard-court season and lead-up to the US Open, which begins in New York on August 29.

Djokovic confirmed as world number one

Wimbledon champion Novak Djokovic was confirmed as the new world number one when the ATP rankings were released yesterday.
Djokovic, who beat Rafael Nadal in Sunday’s final, was already guaranteed to move ahead of the Spaniard following the Serb’s semi-final defeat of Jo-Wilfrid Tsonga. It ends Nadal’s 56-week rein since he took over from Roger Federer on June 7, 2010.
Not since Andy Roddick in the week of January 26, 2004 has anyone other than Nadal or Federer been ranked number one.
“This is an amazing achievement to get to the top spot, especially with rivals such as Rafa and Roger,” said Djokovic.
“They made me work so hard and made me improve every day. There are no words to express how good they are but I always thought that I could become number one one day. Both the belief and the hard work took me there.”
It is the natural culmination of an extraordinary first half of the year for Djokovic who has now won 48 of 49 matches in 2011 and claimed eight titles, including the Australian Open and Wimbledon.
At 24 years, 1 month, 12 days, Djokovic is the 25th player since the rankings began in 1973 to hold the number one position and the first Serb to do so.