Andy Murray kisses the Wimbledon trophy on Sunday. (AP)

London, July 7 (AP): From the lawns of Wimbledon to the lochs of Scotland, all of Britain can celebrate.

Andy Murray made it possible today, winning his country’s hallowed tennis tournament to become the first British man in 77 years to raise the trophy at the All England Club.

Murray’s 6-4, 7-5, 6-4 victory over top-seed Novak Djokovic was a fitting close to nearly eight decades of British frustration in its own backyard: a straight-setter, but a hard-fought, 3-hour, 9-minute affair filled with long, punishing rallies and a final game that may have felt like another 77 years, with Murray squandering three match points before finally putting it away after four deuces.

On a warm, cloudless day on Centre Court, Murray put his name beside that of Fred Perry, the last British man to win Wimbledon, back in 1936.

That sentence doesn’t have to be written again.

The second-seeded Murray beat the best in Djokovic, a six-time Grand Slam winner known for both mental and physical fitness capable of handling what he faced on Sunday: a crowd full of 15,000 partisans rooting against him, to say nothing of Murray himself.

When Murray finally wrapped it up, he let his racket fall to the turf, took his hat off and pumped his fist towards the crowd.