Andy Murray didn't just defeat beat Marcos Baghdatis, he beat the mayor of Merton. The local borough’s 11pm curfew snapped down halfway through the final game of his 7-5, 3-6, 7-5, 6-1 victory but he narrowly made it through this unprecedented race against time.Like Cinderella trying to find the way home before her carriage turns back into a pumpkin, Murray rushed through the final set in just 29 minutes to squeak through into the fourth round. Never before has a tennis player gone up against the clock in the same way.Murray may hate being called a drama queen, but there’s no doubt he’s a magnet for drama. At the final changeover, he didn’t sit down in an effort to get the job done before the guillotine fell. In the end, the match finished at 11.02pm, beating the record of 10.58pm set by Novak Djokovic two years ago.“They [the tournament organisers] did a good job,” Murray said afterwards. “It said on the screen even if it hasn’t finished it can’t go past 11pm. I broke and then I thought we were done. I didn’t sit down at the final change of ends. I don’t know what the rules are, whether the tournament gets a fine or whatever, because it hasn’t happened before.”The Centre Court roof has been a curiosity in the three years since its introduction in 2009, but this summer it has become almost as much a participant in the drama as the players.There have been a number of judgment calls made by the referee’s office, and not all of them have turned out ideally. Such, for instance, as the decision to play the entirety of Friday under the roof because of the threat of rain, even though the outside courts were carrying on quite happily.
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