So yesterday I wrote about MurrayMania - well a lot of people got a huge dose of it in prime time on Monday night.

Tim Henman and to a lesser extent Greg Rusedski have treated the country to epics regularly throughout their playing careers and last night Andy Murray took the country to the brink and back again. As the light faded on Centre Court at well gone 9PM the Scot finally won the five-set epic.

Murray had lost the first two sets and was broken in the third. Gasquet even served for the match in the third and no-one thought Murray had a hope. His French opponent was playing some quite sublime tennis, mixing up scintillating backhand winners with owning the net and volleying sweetly. Everything was smooth sailing for the #8 seed but then he opened his eyes and realised where he was - he was on Centre Court at Wimbledon and playing the British hero. Suddenly everything changed.

Murray broke back and went on to take the tie-break with tennis from the very top drawer. It was game on and everyone watching knew it. The BBC also weren't slow as they moved the game to BBC One from BBC Two as to put it on their prime channel and the figures bear out what a wise decision this was. A staggering 10.4million viewers watched the last 15 minutes and it had an average of 8.6million viewers for the BBC One stint, between 8:30 and 9:30. When you consider that it was up against Coronation Street for the first half an hour, those are quite frankly stunning viewing figures.

The fourth seemed pretty straight forward as Murray powered his way through the set and he would break Gasquet in the opening game of the fifth. You'd of thought that this would've been it but Gasquet somehow rallied to make a game of it. He had a chance to break back straight away but failed and would then question the light. However no-one was about to step in and save him and Murray in the dark would have a match point on his serve at 9:29PM.

It was a marvellous performance by the Scotsman. The crowd roared to greet their hero and he showed off his muscles to celebrate. It was a typical Wimbledon performance by a national hero. Up next is Rafael Nadal and if he can get through him then suddenly some people will seriously believe.