It may not be something Roger Federer or Stan Wawrinka have thought much about, but there is the middling possibility at these championships that they could be the first Wimbledon men’s finalists from the same country since Pete Sampras beat his American compatriot Andre Agassi in 1999.
Federer, owner of 17 majors, seven of them on this grass, is the more favoured of the two Swiss to even reach the final, but Wawrinka, who has never got past the quarter-finals, comes buoyed by winning his second grand slam title, the dramatic victory over Novak Djokovic in the French Open this month.