Murray still pinching himself
Andy Murray has revealed he did not want to go to sleep on Sunday night after winning his first Wimbledon men's singles title as he feared he would wake up and it would all be a dream.
Murray became the first British man to lift the trophy since Fred Perry won the last of three titles at the All England club 77 years ago when he saw off world number one Novak Djokovic in a tense 6-4 7-5 6-4 victory.
"No-one could really believe it and I was the same. You don't want to go to sleep in case you wake up and it didn't actually happen," Murray told BBC Five Live. "I was just messaging my friends and laying in bed. It was tough to get to sleep last night."
He added: "I'm sure I will see some of the newspapers around. I've seen some of the back pages and front pages of the newspapers this morning. I know I won Wimbledon yesterday but what it actually means - I think that will take longer than 24 hours to sink in and understand it."
Murray is planning on spending a few days with his family and friends to celebrate his first Wimbledon title before taking a short break and then returning to his aim of winning all four grand slam events.
"All of my family, no-one could really believe it. It was just an amazing day yesterday," he said.
"I need to try and improve and use this hopefully as a springboard to try and get better. I may never win another slam, I don't know, but I'm going to try as hard as I can and keep working hard and not worry about all of the other stuff that comes along with winning Wimbledon, and after a few days I will enjoy this and get back to work.
"I'm going to try and take a bit of a holiday and go away after the next three or four days. I will see all my family and go out for dinner and see friends and then head off for a week or so."
However, while Murray wants to continue his grand slam-winning success, the world number two admits he is not focused on knocking Djokovic off top spot in the ATP world rankings.
"It's tough. You have to be so consistent throughout the whole year. Right now I hold two slams, the Olympic gold and the final of another slam and I'm still nowhere near number one in the world," he said. "The goal for me is to try and win the grand slams, win those tournaments and not worry too much about the rankings."
