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Sentiment running high for Murray at Wimbledon

June 24, 2014 — by

Day 1 of Wimbledon 2014 began with some highly positive sentiment expressed on Twitter. Blurrt collected over 110k tweets mentioning Wimbledon (including retweets) of which 42% are positive, 12% negative and 46% neutral. Interestingly, and unlike most other mainstream sports, the fan base tweeting was split nearly equally between males and females.

The feelings expressed for Andy Murray during the first day were even more positive as seen from the data and selection of tweets below.

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