ANDY Murray has the taste for further Grand Slam glory. It is just the flavour of alcohol that he still can't stomach.

It is the morning after the night out before and the new Wimbledon champion is back at the scene of his latest triumph. Unlike some members of his extended entourage, he appears as fresh as a daisy, even if he broke the habits of a lifetime by toasting his second SW19 title with a boozy late night at a London night spot.

Ever since once making himself ill on the stuff as a teenager at Sanchez-Casal Academy in Barcelona, Murray only ever drinks on very special occasions. This certainly was one. Going on from the Champions Ball at London's Guildhall to a nightclub called Drama at trendy Park Lane, the party included his wife Kim, dad Willie, fitness trainer Matt Little, coach Jamie Delgado, physios Shane Annun and Mark Bender and mixed doubles champion Heather Watson, not to mention some random hangers on like Louis Tomlinson of One Direction. The night ended at around 3.30am in the wee small hours with paparazzi waiting outside. Well, he did say he planned to enjoy things more this time around than he did back in 2013.

It was a rare glimpse of normality for the Scot, even if it was the normality of a Barclays Premier League footballer rather than the kind that you or I might generally experience. Another night out beckons with his friends and family tonight, although the pace one suspects may be rather more sedate.

"It was nice [to be a normal person]," said the World No 2, who has been congratulated by Amelie Mauresmo but not yet by Rada Nadal or Novak Djokovic. "That was the thing, you get a good group of your friends, work colleagues, family around you and you can relax. I don't even remember [what I had to drink] but it was good fun. But I didn't enjoy the taste [of alcohol] that much. It was brutal."

When he was finally clear of his media duties - he was even on Loose Women yesterday - the Scot's next task was to phone Leon Smith, the Great Britain Davis Cup captain, who flew to Serbia yesterday morning, to inform him that his participation in this weekend's Davis Cup tie with Serbia was "looking unlikely". As much as the 29-year-old would love to take part - indeed he may travel there for the weekend to lend his support to the remaining members of the team, including his brother Jamie - coach Ivan Lendl is believed to be hardline that his first priority must be a period of rest and then transitioning to hard court for the US swing which this year includes the Olympics as well as the US Open.

A week on the clay courts of Eastern Europe simply doesn't make sense - precisely the calculation which the Serbian tennis federation made when scheduling the match for the dirt of the Tasmajdan Stadium at a time when their top two players Djokovic and Viktor Troicki were also likely to have other priorities.

“That’s the thing, I do think we could win the Davis Cup again this year," said the Scot. "That would be an amazing achievement for everyone. I am part of the team and I feel a responsibility there to the team and to Leon, my brother is part of the team as well which all adds to it. So it’s difficult. On the other hand if there was another tournament this weekend, unless it was maybe a Slam or the Olympics, there’s no way I would play."

Most of all, the World No 2 could simply do with a few days off, time to spend with his wife and daughter. Another quandary to work out is the timing of travelling north to show off the trophy. He said yesterday that he loves bringing silverware back to Dunblane, although it is equally probable that he could delay his homecoming this time to the Andy Murray Live event at the Hydro in Glasgow in September or even a Davis Cup tie against Italy or Argentina.

"The last few months have been really long," the Scot said. "I just need to take a few days off at some stage over the next few weeks because I maybe messed up a little bit last year before the US Open. I’ve seen the video of everyone back in Dunblane supporting and it’s nice going back to see everyone. A lot of my family are there as well, so I’ll try to get back to see everyone.”

As unusual as it was to see Murray leading the paparazzi a merry dance outside nightclubs, it was entirely fitting that he should spend his moment of triumph among the other members of his team. He may have done the heavy lifting but it took a team effort to take him back from serious back surgery in late 2013. Physios, nutritionists, various lead coaches and a gyrotonic yoga instructor, all have played their part.

"To think that he would get through this tournament off the back of that French Open and that clay-court season without any niggles at all is for us as big a success as Andy lifting the trophy himself because it wasn't looking that way after the back surgery," said Murray's fitness trainer Matt Little. "When he lost the French Open final, we were sitting around the table having a discussion about it that night to say 'how much harder can we push you?' and there were some soul searching moments there actually."

Lendl's appointment was concluded soon afterwards and on the subject of the undemonstrative Czech, who seems certain to be retained until SW19 next year, he was spotted getting a bit teary-eyed himself on Sunday night. "He was telling everyone it was allergies" said Murray. "But I don’t believe him.”