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“Our ancestors,” Schmitt continued, “would be astonished to learn that they were fighting for a ‘proposition.’

This is astonishing, really, but yeah, that was in a place laughingly called Mile City.

“What was remarkable or astonishing about this was that this wasn’t in one airstrike or in one mass casualty incident,” he pointed out.

In the final against Sinner, he hit an astonishing sliced smash that curved on to the tramlines, completely wrong-footing the Italian.

But to go from suffering a demoralising defeat at SW19 to reaching a second major final just two months later is simply astonishing.