A message from one of those who provide commercial backing to Scotland’s greatest sportsman is never something to be ignored so when his sponsors ‘Standard Life’ got in touch to point out a close correlation between a little film they had produced with Mr Murray and an article in our sister paper ‘The Evening Times’ this week and asking that we take a look at it then it would have been rude to do otherwise.

“As discussed in your article Andy Murray: 'No-one can put any more pressure on me than I put on myself ' - there is an even greater pressure lying on the shoulders of Britain’s favourite Andy Murray and our film perfectly depicts this pressure – I feel it would be a great addition to your article,” said Annabel Edwards, the account executive who pointed it out.

The video is the third in their series ‘Mastering Your Dreams’ video and once we’d had a look we agreed. So much so that if you go to the original article we’ve now added a link to it, or you can go to Hawk-Aye on line and cut and paste the following: http://www.eveningtimes.co.uk/sport/other/14599982.Andy_Murray___No_one_can_put_any_more_pressure_on_me_than_I_put_on_myself_/

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WITH Wales exiting Euro 2016, Andy Murray makes light of his new-found status as the only remaining salvation for the British sporting summer. We all like a bit of hyperbole in this business and Andy handles it all very well, but when asked how it felt, in light of the Brexit meltdown as well as some sporting setbacks, to be ‘our last hope’ he was entitled to look somewhat non-plussed. "It's not that bad, is it?" he asked. Indeed it isn't. His questioner obviously forgot the fact England whitewashed the Aussies on their own path in Rugby Union for the first time ever, while Chris Froome is looking a good bet to complete a hat-trick of Tour de France wins. There was also the small matter of England's humiliation to Iceland at the Euros, which for most members of the Tartan Army has already made it not too bad a sporting summer at all.

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ANOTHER man overcoming huge difficulties to play his chosen sport is Gordon Reid, who yesterday played wheelchair singles for the first time at Wimbledon. Reid fends off idiotic, ill-informed enquiries with huge amounts of grace. Among these was whether the bounce of the ball on grass courts would cause huge problems for him. "Probably not as tough for us as somebody like Isner," he joked. "It's probably easier for us when we're already sitting pretty low."