To sum up, it is not at all unreasonable for the British to expect great things from Murray this season, particularly on the hardcourts he prefers.

That slightly wide-eyed boyishness has given him a career playing ordinary people in extraordinary circumstances, whether that be everyone's favourite idiot-savant Forrest Gump (1994), a pilot who saves the day in Sully (2016), or the beleaguered Captain Miller of Saving Private Ryan (1998).

This scarcity of review books, coupled with an unknown and unadvertising publisher strengthened the growing rumor that the book was a piece of vanity publication, a book to let alone.

The British government has already made representations to the Spanish government concerning this matter.