{"id":262061,"date":"2025-07-13T16:57:14","date_gmt":"2025-07-13T16:57:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/262061\/"},"modified":"2025-07-13T16:57:14","modified_gmt":"2025-07-13T16:57:14","slug":"andy-murray-admits-the-match-where-he-felt-completely-humbled-by-roger-federer-and-could-barely-win-a-game","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/262061\/","title":{"rendered":"Andy Murray admits the match where he felt completely ‘humbled’ by Roger Federer and could barely win a game"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Following the women\u2019s singles final at Wimbledon, it\u2019s hard to think of a time a player was dominated on the biggest stages in tennis as much as Amanda Anisimova was against Iga Swiatek. <\/strong><\/p>\n

Swiatek battered Anisimova<\/a> 6-0, 6-0 to secure a maiden title at the All England Club, becoming the second woman in the Open Era to win a major final without conceding a game.<\/p>\n

It was a complete blowout, with the Pole producing some of the best grass-court tennis of her career, while nothing was going right for the American. <\/p>\n

The match was something two-time Wimbledon<\/a> champion Andy Murray<\/a> could relate to, who recently recalled the time he could barely win a game against Roger Federer<\/a>. <\/p>\n

\"IgaPhoto by Clive Brunskill\/Getty ImagesAndy Murray recalls his humbling experience against Roger Federer<\/p>\n

In an interview on \u2018The Tennis Mentor\u2019 YouTube channel, when asked to name a match that he felt humbled in, Murray said: \u201cThat\u2019s one of the things with tennis, you finish most weeks losing.<\/p>\n

\u201cEven the greatest players, if they play 20 tournaments in a year, if they win five of them, that\u2019s a great season.<\/p>\n

\u201cI would say one of the matches where I was humbled was actually at the O2 arena, at the world tour finals.<\/p>\n

\u201cI can\u2019t remember if it was 6-0, 5-0. It was definitely 6-0, 3-0 before I won my first game. It was against Federer.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe was playing great, I was playing awful. It was in front of a home crowd in a huge stadium, and I think it was the only time in my career where I was hoping to win a game.<\/p>\n

\u201cI definitely felt humbled that day.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

Andy Murray\u2019s heavy defeat to Roger Federer at the 2014 ATP Finals<\/p>\n

The match Murray referred to was in the round-robin of the 2014 ATP<\/a> Finals in London, where he met Federer for the third time that year. <\/p>\n

In their two previous clashes that season, the 20-time major champion emerged victorious, beating the Briton at both the Australian Open and the Cincinnati Open.<\/p>\nYearMatchWinner<\/tr>\n\n2015<\/td>\nCincinnati Open semi-final<\/td>\nRoger Federer<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n2015<\/td>\nWimbledon semi-final<\/td>\nRoger Federer<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n2014<\/td>\nATP Finals round-robin<\/td>\nRoger Federer<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n2014<\/td>\nCincinnati Open quarter-final<\/td>\nRoger Federer<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n2014<\/td>\nAustralian Open quarter-final<\/td>\nRoger Federer<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

Roger Federer\u2019s record against Andy Murray since 2014<\/p>\n

Federer was on fire in their year-end meeting and wrapped the first set up with a 24-minute bagel against Murray, who had no answers for his opponent.<\/p>\n

At 5-0 in the second set, the home favourite finally got on the scoreboard by winning a consolation game, but the Swiss legend immediately replied with a hold of serve to win the match. <\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Following the women\u2019s singles final at Wimbledon, it\u2019s hard to think of a time a player was dominated…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":262062,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4105],"tags":[5233,13325,79,1068,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-262061","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tennis","8":"tag-andy-murray","9":"tag-roger-federer","10":"tag-sports","11":"tag-tennis","12":"tag-uk","13":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114846986695881424","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/262061","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=262061"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/262061\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/262062"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=262061"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=262061"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=262061"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}