Andy Murray v Pete Sampras?
Great Britain celebrated Andy Murray winning Wimbledon for the second time in his career. A significant victory for Murray, it now puts him in a slightly elevated status in terms of open era tennis greats. There are a few great players who won two majors in their career, but not many have won three and stay there. As of now, Andy has the opportunity to win more majors before his career ends. However, Andy’s victory brought out the inevitable comparison of eras from British journalists who were getting (over) excited about Andy’s success. I read an interesting article by Sean Ingle of the Guardian newspaper. In the article Sean gave us a variety of statistics which was designed to come to the conclusion that in any other era Murray would have been a multi grand slam champion, most likely at Wimbledon. So far Murray has played in eleven major finals, winning three of them. Eleven finals puts Murray in the top echelons for appearances in...