Andy Murray: Celebrating too hard is costing me matches

One of the things that fans love most about Murray is the bare emotion he brings to the game, with roars of delight after he wins big points - and, equally, despair writ large across his features and body when things go against him,

But the Scot, who lost to Roger Federer in the semi-finals at Wimbledon, now says that he probably needs to rein things in a bit.

“Celebrating wildly after winning a big point is great when you’re fresh but it uses up energy as well," Murray told the Daily Record the day after the Davis Cup win against France this weekend.

“I tried as best I could to just play each point at a time, even though I was getting frustrated and emotional. In the first and second matches I had made a point of getting the crowd involved and it helped a lot.

“But on Sunday I didn’t use the crowd quite as much, or celebrate so often, because I was so tired! I had to conserve my energy.”

Don't do it, Andy! Or rather, carry on doing it. Because the idea of a Murray who quietly went about his business rather than punching the air, yelling like an FA Cup final winner and outraging grannies with a string of X-rated filth just sounds so, so wrong. Yes, he might be able to save himself a bit of energy. But surely getting yourself - and the crowd - pumped up is more important in terms of finding an edge in a close match than a few extra joules of energy that go unspent.