"She was in good spirits and had no worries or reason to run away from her life, " Fred Murray said.

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But given the last one was way back in 1926, ten years before Fred Perry won his last tennis major, let alone Andy Murray, there is little wonder rhetoric about it on the Brighton seafront is resonating beyond the conference hall.

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Many had tipped Murray to become the first British man to win a Grand Slam singles title since Fred Perry in 1936 - and for the foreseeable future he remains the nation's premier hope to do so - but he will have to wait at least another year for another chance on home soil.

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