Andy Murray has once again become the disappointed nearly man of Wimbledon, when he was squeezed out of the tournament by the seven-time champion Roger Federer in an exhilarating semi-final.
The 2013 champion had been battling to win a place in his third Wimbledon final – and become, with his older brother Jamie, the first brothers to contest the men’s singles and doubles finals in the same year for more than a century.
But despite acknowledging immediately after the match that he had not, in fact, made too many mistakes, Murray was unable to equal the almost faultless tennis played by his 33-year-old opponent.