In amongst all the Scottish success at Wimbledon yesterday it was apt that it all finished with a little sprig of Heather.
The woman in question added a lot of joy to the occasion, too, her mood very different to that of 12 days earlier when she exited the singles event.
Then Heather Watson, the former British women’s number one, had made no secret of feeling devastated by her 12-10 final set defeat to German’s Annika Beck, but she had promised to draw motivation from the experience and bounce back.
That said, it was clear that even she was surprised by how quickly that came about after she claimed her first Wimbledon title in tandem with Finnish mixed doubles partner Henri Kontinen.
“Who would have thought we're here as champions, for me, after such a horrible first round loss,” she said, beaming broadly.
“I made it to the last day of Wimbledon, which has been always one of my goals to reach just the second week of a Slam.”
Always a fun event playing mixed had obviously been the perfect pick-me-up, their enthusiasm contagious as they edged Colombia’s Robert Farah and Germany’s Anna-Lena Groenefeld out of the first set tie-break, then went on to register the only break of the match on Groenefeld’s serve midway through the second set.
“I couldn't have chosen anybody better to play with than Henri,” said Watson.
“He made our time on court so fun. Off the court as well, like warming up together. It was just fun and easy. Yeah, I'm just so freaking happy.”
“Some people say, like, it's fun, but don't actually really have fun. I think we did. We didn't think about winning. We just wanted to go out there and just enjoy our time and just try and play well and good.
“Yeah, now we're Grand Slam champions, Wimbledon champions.”
Watson also expressed her delight at Andy Murray’s victory, while in matching his brother Jamie by becoming a Wimbledon mixed doubles champion she was the first British woman to do so since Jo Durie, 29 years ago.
“It's a great week. I'll remember this forever,” she trilled.
“It's been a dream of mine since I was a little girl to be a Grand Slam champion. I would take anything, singles, doubles, mixed doubles.”
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