After you’ve won a Grand Slam title you don’t immediately have time to let what you’ve just done sink in – there is so much you have to do after coming off court.
That initial moment, when you win match point, you’re immediately feeling ecstatic. Although it was very funny on Saturday because Beth hadn’t realised we had won.
She thought the score was something else and then I had a panic that I had started to celebrate and we hadn’t actually won.
But the crowd was going crazy so I knew we had and then she bounded over to jump on me in celebration. It was a great moment.
We played an amazing match from start to finish and kept going where we left off in the semi-finals. The way we played against Chan Hao-ching and Michael Venus – the top seeds – was pleasing and we’re so happy to win again.
Standing on court receiving your trophies is always an emotional moment and after receiving our prizes, we had to go straight to drug testing to pee!
After that we had to go to a couple of television studios for interviews, do a ‘winner’s walk’ video for the US Open, talk to the press and then finally get a shower.
Then I had to head to the airport because my flight was only a few hours after the final finished so I was rushing around a bit.
I turned my phone off before the match and once I finally got the chance to check it I had 51 WhatsApp messages of congratulations.
My brother Andy and my dad William were among them, plus lots of other members of the family and friends, while my mum was there watching so she could say congratulations in person.
Even though I had to rush off to JFK airport, I still had time to squeeze in some champagne – which we drank out of the trophy – and pizza with Bethanie and her husband Justin, my wife Alejandra, and the other members of our teams.
We did that last year so we had to continue the winning tradition!
We get a replica trophy which they send to us and that will go somewhere in the living room, probably around the television.
I’ve got a few trophies around the house because my wife says it is nice to document what I’ve achieved and show my hard work has paid off.
It is nice to have those memories because it is easy not to celebrate because then there is next week and the next step. But it’s cool to take time to reflect on previous successes and enjoy it.
