--- title: Andy Murray Breaks Down in Tears After 3 am Victory description: An emotional Andy Murray broke down in tears after pulling out a hard-fought 3 a.m. victory over Marius Copil at the Citi Open. canonical: https://time.com/5357379/andy-murray-in-tears/ author: Megan McCluskey article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2018-08-03T16:08:58.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:54:09.494Z og:title: Andy Murray Breaks Down in Tears After Emotional 3 a.m. Victory og:description: The former world No. 1 is in the midst of a stunning comeback og:url: https://time.com/5357379/andy-murray-in-tears/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt0025642963d4d467/698936fe22fb852865e26555/andy-murray-tears-citi-open.jpg?branch=production&width=594&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 594 og:image:height: 334 og:image:alt: Citi Open- Day 6 og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Andy Murray Breaks Down in Tears After Emotional 3 a.m. Victory twitter:description: The former world No. 1 is in the midst of a stunning comeback twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt0025642963d4d467/698936fe22fb852865e26555/andy-murray-tears-citi-open.jpg?branch=production&width=594&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Andy Murray Breaks Down in Tears After Emotional 3 a.m. Victory While 'Closing Time' Plays > Sponsored content. 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Mitchell Layton/Getty Images  by [Megan McCluskey](https://time.com/author/megan-mccluskey/)  ## Megan McCluskey Staff Writer Aug 3, 2018 4:08 PM UTC An emotional [Andy Murray](http://time.com/4452125/andy-murray-john-inverdale-olympics/) broke down in tears after pulling out a hard-fought victory over Marius Copil at the Citi Open early Friday morning. The former world No. 1—currently ranked 832nd—wept into a towel for several minutes after defeating Copil 6-7, 6-3, 7-6 in a round of 16 match that lasted for more than three hours, and didn’t finish until 3 a.m. “It was just the emotions coming out at the end of an extremely long day and a long match,” Murray told reporters. However, some speculated that Murray’s tears had more to do with his ongoing comeback following a persistent hip injury that kept him sidelined for [nearly a year](https://www.nytimes.com/2018/06/19/sports/tennis/andy-murray-nick-kyrgios-queens.html). The [tennis great](http://time.com/5303055/andre-agassi-foundation-tennis-french-open/) is set to face Australia’s Alex de Minaur in the quarter-finals later on Friday, but said there’s a chance he won’t play. “Finishing matches at 3 in the morning is not good,” he said. “It’s not good for the players. It’s not good for anyone, I don’t think, involved in the event. It’s not good for fans, TV, nobody.” > [](https://twitter.com/TennisTV/status/1025278069177810946) ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/5357379/andy-murray-in-tears/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/5357379/andy-murray-in-tears/"},"headline":"Andy Murray Breaks Down in Tears After Emotional 3 a.m. Victory While 'Closing Time' Plays","datePublished":"2018-08-03T16:08:58.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:54:09.494Z","description":"The former world No. 1 is in the midst of a stunning comeback","url":"https://time.com/5357379/andy-murray-in-tears/","keywords":["Newsfeed","tennis","Andy Murray"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt0025642963d4d467/698936fe22fb852865e26555/andy-murray-tears-citi-open.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Megan McCluskey","jobTitle":"Staff Writer","url":"https://time.com/author/megan-mccluskey/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt0025642963d4d467/698936fe22fb852865e26555/andy-murray-tears-citi-open.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"Citi Open- Day 6","caption":"Citi Open- Day 6","creditText":"Mitchell Layton/Getty Images","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/5357379/andy-murray-in-tears/","name":"Andy Murray Breaks Down in Tears After Emotional 3 a.m. Victory While 'Closing Time' Plays"}}]}] ```