Andy Murray mellows as pressure eases ANDY Murray was serving to win his first US Open. He paced the back court as though trapped in a prison cell. He nearly vomited from the stress. He saw Kevin Spacey in the VIP seats and screamed. Come On! He glared at Alex Ferguson. Murray contemplated the most riotous scene since John McEnroe's first match at Forest Hills was postponed due to gunfire and hollered at every last patron inside the Arthur Ashe Stadium. He served out the match. A British male had won a major for the first time since 1936. Yet his post-match press conference was a yawn. But a different Murray has returned to the large apple to defend his title, a Murray so relaxed and chipper he threatens to whistle some Monty Python while he walks. Having won Wimbledon, Murray is free. "Last year, I don't know, it was just pure relief rather than, 'I'm so excited to have won a grand slam'," he said. I didn't really feel like I had the chance to enjoy it. I'm not going to play under the same pressure that I've had to for the last five, six years. That's never going to happen again. I mean, I would expect now that I would be able to enjoy the semi-finals and finals of grand slams more now than I would've done even just a few months ago. There was a lot of pressure on me for a lot of years to win a grand slam, and the same sort of thing at Wimbledon. I wouldn't imagine it would be the same sort of pressure here again. No amount of emotional duress can match what Murray has overcome. Winning his first slam in New York. Winning Wimbledon. "I saw the last game of the Wimbledon final that night because there was a lot of media and stuff that day and, you know, I was getting asked a lot about the last game," he said. But I couldn't even remember what happened on the last point. Once I watched it back once, I remembered, instantly, every single point and how I was feeling at every single point. When I walked off the court, if I hadn't seen it back on video -- I probably would never have remembered. It was a stressful last game, and one of the hardest games I had to play in my career, for a number of reasons. This week, Spacey will be back in the VIP seats, but there will be no more throat-constricting pressure for Murray. Never again.