Tennis superstar Andy Murray has branded one of the world’s most prestigious sports ceremonies “s***e”.
The 38-year-old former world No1 has revealed he once even stopped at McDonald’s wearing his tuxedo on the way to the glitzy Wimbledon Champion’s Dinner.
The blunt-speaking Scot’s mum Judy explained that her son was exhausted after the gruelling match followed by hours of press interviews.
Andy lifted the men’s golden trophy on Wimbledon’s Centre Court first time in 2013, beating all-time great Novak Djokovic in straight sets.
Judy said that afterwards “the players’ restaurant was closed so there wasn’t any food available, not just for Andy but for anyone. He was starving”.
Speaking during Centre Stage, a series of stage shows in Glasgow, Edinburgh and London in which he shares candid anecdotes about his career, Andy said he wanted to celebrate his first Wimbledon victory with friends and family.
Instead he was forced to attend the traditional champion’s dinner at London’s InterContinental Park Lane hotel, 90 minutes from the All England Club.
Arriving at 11.30pm, he described how he wasn’t able to even sit with his mum, dad or now wife Kim Sears, and joked, “Yeah, it was s***e”.
He had previously said he was unable to remember any of the 2013 match afterwards and felt only a sense of “relief” at having won, rather than a sense of achievement.
