After Jamie Murray matched his younger brother’s Wimbledon title haul the doubles specialist acknowledged that he appreciated his success even more second time around.

The 31-year-old, who was the first of the Murrays to win a Grand Slam title when he won the mixed doubles crown at the All England Club exactly 10 years ago, this time teamed up with Martina Hingis, one of the sport’s all-time greats in what proved an unbeatable combination.

And after their 6-4, 6-4 defeat of the defending champions, his fellow Brit Heather Watson and Finland’s Henri Kontinen, he admitted that he probably would have turned down an invitation from anyone else.

“It's just a great opportunity for me to play and to really feel like you could do good things on the court and have a great shot to win,” he said of playing with Hingis, who had won 22 previous singles, women’s doubles and mixed doubles Grand Slam titles.

“I mean, the (men’s) doubles for me is obviously my biggest goal of the year, it's going to take something pretty special to kind of maybe potentially take my eye off the ball with it.

“But she's won everything, won so many mixed as well.

“I knew I could do well with her. For me, it was kind of an easy decision.”

He has previously down-played his achievement when, as a 21-year-old, he partnered Jelena Jankovic to victory, but the approach from Hingis seems to have helped him place the mixed doubles in a different perspective.

“It was the first time I ever played mixed doubles, I was young, first year playing on the tour. I guess I don't know, it was just different,” he said.

“Like it's 10 years later. Obviously took me a long time to get a second one, but yeah, I mean, I really enjoyed the whole week.

“It's a great achievement. Any time you win a Grand Slam, get your name up on the board again, it's there forever, yeah, no one will take it away from you.”

Hingis admitted that as someone who is used to getting what she wants on a tennis court, Murray had given her a nervous wait when she extended the invitation.

“I was hoping that Wimbledon really is for every British player or for any tennis player, you want to win Wimbledon. I mean, whether it's the singles, doubles or mixed,” she said in explaining why she thought it was worth making the offer to the man who finished 2016 ranked no.1 in the world.

“I'm not used to 'no', no, I don't take 'no' as an answer pretty much, but I would understand especially here, it's always tough.

“I understand in the past guys would have said no because they really want to focus on doubles only because they play three-out-of-five sets.

“This is the only tournament that still does it. It’s definitely easier to ask somebody on the other three Grand Slams and not Wimbledon, but I definitely was hoping for a big yes (then) he left me hanging overnight. I was like, ‘Oh, my God, did he read it? Did he not?’”