Murray Witnesses The Benefit of Celebrity

Written by: Staff on 17th September 2012

Murray Witnesses The Benefit of Celebrity |

Andy Murray was quick to learn the lessons of tennis celebrity status, as the new US Open champion and his 30 closest friends ate on the house at a New York Chinese restaurant after he broke his Grand Slam duck with last weekend’s title over Novak Djokovic.

Team Murray and friends descended on a Manhattan establishment and stayed for two hours, according to the New York Daily News, which went so far as to detail the evening’s celebratory menu – a steamed dim sum platter, crispy duck salad with pomelo, pine nut and shallot, plus salt and pepper squid.

In addition to a food tab in excess of $5,000, there were also the drinks, though the new champion stuck to his teetotaler lifestyle by drinking a lemon fizz. For the rest, there were 17 martinis, five bottles of top-shelf Louis Roederer French champagne and other libations worth more than $1,400.

But the dinner food and drink came at no charge to the tennis hero, who got it all comped, courtesy of his new status as a Grand Slam champion in the style of Federer, Nadal and Djokovic.

The restaurant was happy to provide the full discount, leaving Murray to just chip in a tip of nearly $1,300. That would have left him plenty of change from his $1.9 million winner’s check.