Tennis Today: RIP Andy Murray’s gold postbox, while Serena Williams’ new hairdo is a big hit

In Tennis Today, it’s quiet in the world of tennis so we are reporting on Andy Murray’s gold postbox, Serena Williams’ honey-blonde ombré hair and a non-story about Novak Djokovic’s marriage.
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What’s in the news
It’s a sad day for the postbox community as Andy Murray’s gold one that commemorated his 2012 London Olympic gold medal is no more.
If you cast your mind back to 2012, Murray was bestowed the honour of a gold postbox (it was just painted gold) in Dunblane, Scotland, after he beat Roger Federer to win gold at the 2012 Games.
But the postbox got taken out by a runaway car on Monday, reports The Telegraph.
Let’s have a moment’s silence for the postbox.
RIP @andy_murray‘s #goldpostbox. Taken out by a runaway car.
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.#dunblane @BBCNewsScotland @STVNews @JudyMurray @RoyalMail pic.twitter.com/CTN7uLQbE7— Scott Abercrombie (@ScottAbercrombi) July 22, 2019
Better news for Murray fans as he did a nice piece with Femail just about everything from his special diet to social media and keeping young children action.
Serena Williams’ new honey-blonde ombré hair has been a hit, according to Elle UK.
At first we were going to ignore this story, but then decided against it.
On Monday The Sun ran an EXCLUSIVE!
“LOVE MATCH MYSTERY Novak Djokovic’s marriage under scrutiny as wife Jelena misses Wimbledon despite being in London” screamed the headline.
Basically the story came about because Jelena failed to attend Wimbledon, she missed the Wimbledon Champions Ball and, wait for it, they “they failed to mark their July 10 anniversary on social media”.
Both Novak and Jelena have been very busy on social media in recent days though. See more below.
What’s on social media
Here are the Djokovics floating around. Novak posted it on Twitter and Jelena on Insta.
???? @jelenadjokovic pic.twitter.com/tIxU3dGbhN
— Novak Djokovic (@DjokerNole) July 22, 2019
Sloane Stephens on vacation.
And then there is Eugenie Bouchard.
Maria Sharapova doing goodness knows what.
And more from Maria.
Grigor Dimitrov pays tribute to Peter McNamara.
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