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Andy's been unfortunate in the sense that his career has coincided with 3 of the all time greats.

He's also fortunate he's got that to fall back on. His bottle crashes so, so much when he gets near Finals.

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Murray has been honking and totally deserves hammered here. Poor attitude in the second half of this match and has made some strange shot decisions.

His inability to serve will always hold him back.

Hold him back? He's in a grand slam final against an even more phenomenal player than himself.

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Andy Murray is a great player and great sportsman. He is however, as mentioned above, his own worst enemy. He plays like Djokovic a lot of the match and more than matches any player in the world until he has his common brain farts and becomes Tim Henman.

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He's also fortunate he's got that to fall back on. His bottle crashes so, so much when he gets near Finals.

Well you look at the Henman era, cloggers like Pat Rafter, Leyton Hewitt and Andy Roddick were regularly winning majors. If Andy was 10 years older he'd have got into double figures in slams easily IMO.

Andy's just never consistently reached the level of Djokovic, Federer and Nadal, and he never will and there's no shame in that. I think there's a decent argument to say those are the 3 greatest players of all time.

He's done well to have won his two slams and his gold medal under the circumstances.

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Well you look at the Henman era, cloggers like Pat Rafter, Leyton Hewitt and Andy Roddick were regularly winning majors. If Andy was 10 years older he'd have got into double figures in slams easily IMO.

Andy's just never consistently reached the level of Djokovic, Federer and Nadal, and he never will and there's no shame in that. I think there's a decent argument to say those are the 3 greatest players of all time.

He's done well to have won his two slams and his gold medal under the circumstances.

Ability wise, Murray should be included in that list though. Mentally hes never been near them. Its frustrating.

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Totally agree, Lex.

He couldn't be more unfortunate with the talent surrounded.

Similar to what was being discussed when mentioning footballers being nominated for Ballon D'Or in the current era of Ronaldo and Messi. They may get nominated but simply won't get near that level.

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