“Maybe the results would have been a bit different,” Andy Murray believes he could’ve enjoyed more success at Roland Garros if he didn’t play against the Big-3 and Stan Wawrinka

Murray has a 39-12 record at Roland Garros, having reached the semifinals four times and a final in 2016.

“Maybe the results would have been a bit different,” Andy Murray believes he could’ve enjoyed more success at Roland Garros if he didn’t play against the Big-3 and Stan Wawrinka

Roger Federer, Stan Wawrinka, Andy Murray, Rafael Nadal, Novak Djokovic (Images via Imago, Sky Sports, X)

Andy Murray crashed out of his possible last Roland Garros after losing to Stan Wawrinka in the first round 6-4, 6-4, 6-2. After the defeat in two hours and 11 minutes, the three-time Grand Slam champion from Britain talked about how the result at the clay-court event in Paris would have been different if he had not played in the era of the Big-3 and Wawrinka. 

Murray has a 39-12 record on the Paris clay court, having reached the semifinals four times (2011, 2014, 2015, 2017), and a final in 2016 when he lost to Novak Djokovic 3-6, 6-1, 6-2, 6-4. The Brit lost two semifinals to Rafael Nadal, one to Djokovic and one to Wawrinka. 

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I played the final, I think four semis and made the quarters. I don't know, I don't know how many times, a couple of times as well, maybe. Yeah, lost in the semis, I lost to Novak in five, Stan in five, and twice to Rafa. Obviously, no shame in that. At a different time, maybe the results would have been a bit different. But yeah, I'm proud of the results that I had here. 
Andy Murray said at the press conference 

The former World No.1 was a part of the Big-4 in the 2010s, but since 2016, injuries hampered his career and after 2016, he made it to just one semifinal, and failed to reach even the quarterfinals. Overall, the Brit has played in 11 major finals, including five finals at the Australian Open. 

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Andy Murray met Stan Wawrinka four times at Roland Garros 

Prior to their first-round meeting at this year’s Roland Garros, Andy Murray clashed against Stan Wawrinka three times in Paris. They first locked horns in the 2016 Roland Garros semifinal, which Murray won, while the 39-year-old from Switzerland emerged as the winner in their next two encounters. 

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Stan Wawrinka, Andy Murray (Image via Imago)

Although Murray leads the head-to-head record over Wawrinka 13-10, the latter has a better stat on clay, having a 6-1 record. The 37-year-old met Wawrinka eight times in Grand Slam events, with the latter leading 5-3. 

Meanwhile, in the current tournament, Wawrinka will play the winner of the first-round match between Cameron Norrie and Pavel Kotov in the next round. Before Roland Garros, the three-time Grand Slam champion played two Challengers. Murray, on the other hand, played at the Geneva Open where he got crashed out of the Round of 16 by Yannick Hanfmann.

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