Only to hear some familiar voices in the crowd and his wife Kim Sears smiling and waving in the crowd. So in the end, his children did make it in a heartwarming moment.
Made more so by the fact that they missed Surbiton due to the rain where he also won the title.
"I didn't know they were here," he said both shocked and also emotional. "I had no idea they were coming. They came last week for the final at Surbiton—they turned up and it started raining, then they had to go home for the kids' bedtime and they missed the end of the match so it's great they could come today."
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