Pity Andy Murray, Britain’s number one tennis player and the
world’s number two.
His overall record is impressive. He has won two grand slams
(including Wimbledon in 2013) as well as an Olympic gold medal, and he
regularly makes at least the final four in big tournaments.
Yet his conversion rate of grand-slam semi-finals to
victories, at 19 to two, is the lowest in the modern game (see chart).
It is his misfortune
to be playing at the same time as outperformers like Roger Federer, Rafael
Nadal and Novak Djokovic, whom he has faced in seven of his ten finals.
In any other era he
might have been at least a John McEnroe. Just not this one.
