1989 Wimbledon Championships – Men's Singles 1989 Wimbledon Championships – Men's Singles Boris Becker defeated the defending champion Stefan Edberg in the final, 6–0, 7–6, 6–4 to win the Gentlemen's Singles tennis title at the 1989 Wimbledon Championships. The semi-final match between Ivan Lendl and eventual champion Becker became at the time the longest ever Wimbledon semi-final at four hours and one minute long. It would not be until the 2013 championships that this record would be broken, when the semi-final match between Novak Djokovic and Juan Martín del Potro would last four hours and forty-three minutes. John McEnroe reached the semi-finals, his best showing in
2013 Wimbledon Championships – Men's singles final and Victoria Azarenka, and Scotland's First Minister, Alex Salmond, were also among those who paid tribute. Additionally, BBC Sport writer Tom Fordyce hailed Andy Murray's Wimbledon victory as "the 'holy grail' for British sport". Murray's Wimbledon victory dominated most of the British newspapers ranging from "The Guardian" to "The Daily Telegraph" and "The Daily Mail", among many others. It also even made front-page headlines on Serbia's two biggest newspapers, "Blic" and "Politika", and also dominated the sports sections of "The New York Times" in the United States and Australia's Sydney Morning Herald. 2013 Wimbledon Championships – Men's singles final The