The Wimbledon final had everything you could wish for – skill, fitness, drama, 150 per cent effort. This was sporting theatre at its best from Raphael Nadal and Roger Federer who are by far the best two players in the world.

Even the weather played its part. Never again shall we have a final completed at 9pm on a Sunday evening. Next year the roof will be in place.

Competition enriches all sports including tennis. Soon Nadal will be Number One in the rankings. Who will challenge him when Roger Federer eventually retires?

We Britains hope it will be Andy Murray. The quarter-final mauling, albeit sadly, shows that this prospect is still a long way off.

We Britains are fanatical about our sport. I don't think there was any intended discourtesy towards Richard Gasquet last week.

The fans on 'Murray Mount' just got over excited in their hope for British success.

I cannot compare this with actions at some football matches as John Watson did in the letters column (Yorkshire Post, July 7).

Also I think Andy Murray's behaviour has improved during the last two years.

We cannot expect the same level of culture and deportment from working class Dunblane that we get from middle class Oxford. Tim Henman and Andy are completely different characters (so are Raphael and Roger).

All they share is being virtually alone in the hope of the nation for British success. Andy Murray is likely to face this burden for the next decade. I do hope that the British public and the media do not expect too much too soon – not only from Andy but also from 14-year-old Laura Robson.

She really has been a breath of fresh air for British tennis. Remember she is only a schoolgirl.

From: Eric Firth, Wilsden, West Yorkshire.

Lewis Hamilton wins a meaningless race so he'll probably get sports personality of the year.

It's always the case, the rich man's minority elitist pursuits, golf, tennis, and going round in circles dominate over real sportsmen and women.

Motor racing isn't sport, it's mechanics, engineering, and big, big business.

Race fans are nerds, watching little noddy cars going round in circles, and round, and round.

Brian Sheridan, Sheffield.

John Watson exaggerates the "danger of tennis heading down the path of football" (Yorkshire Post, July 7).

Even perennial adolescent Andy Murray has been acknowledging opponents' best shots with a sporting 'yep' but the men's game, at least, is blessed with three of the finest role-models in sport.

Serbian prodigy Novak Djokovic regularly applauds his opponents and helps umpires with difficult decisions even if they go against him.

Roger Federer's impeccable off-court manners belie his somewhat sullen on-court demeanour. However, not since the great fighter Rocky Marciano have I seen how such a ferocious competitor can remain such a charming man as is the case of Rafael Nadal.

Off court his cheery humility shines through his rapidly-improving English. He treats umpires and ball-kids with courtesy and he is manifestly well-liked by other players.

That is not to say that tennis does not have problems.

The Williams sisters exposed the fragility of the women's field, as divas Ivanovic, Sharapova and Jankovic short-changed Wimbledon. The intensity of the men's tour certainly needs looking at. Nadal's only defeat in recent memory was caused by feet that TV cameras revealed as raw meat – typically, he didn't quit on his stool.

Last, but not least; reports of irregular betting patterns and corruption in tennis must be taken seriously.

Yorkshire cricket letters: Page 10 of the Yorkshire Post main section.