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                     Andy Murray with the ATP year-end No 1 trophy                            <\/div>\n<\/figcaption><\/div>\n<div class=\"ciam-article-t365\"><!-- Article Start --><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tennis365.com\/tag\/andy-murray\">Andy Murray<\/a> won three Grand Slams during his distinguished career, yet the tennis great \u201cwould argue\u201d there is one achievement that is harder to accomplish than winning a major.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tennis365.com\/tag\/andy-murray\">Murray<\/a> ended Great Britain\u2019s long wait for a men\u2019s Grand Slam winner in the Open Era when he defeated Novak Djokovic in the 2012 US Open final, becoming the first British man since Fred Perry in 1936 to win a major.<\/p>\n<p>His title at the US Open came on the back of finishing on the losing side in four finals and, after another runners-up trophy at the 2013 Australian Open, Murray again followed in Perry\u2019s footsteps as he ended the 77-year drought for a home champion at Wimbledon, beating Milos Raonic in the final.<\/p>\n<p>He went on to win a second title at Wimbledon in 2016 and admits it would have been a case of \u201cwhat could have been\u201d if he failed to win at the All England Club.<\/p>\n<h2>Tennis Features<\/h2>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tennis365.com\/tennis-features\/andrey-rublev-foundation-tennis-hero-changing-lives\">Inside story on the tennis champion helping to save lives of young children around the world<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tennis365.com\/tennis-news\/kyle-edmund-exclusive-interview-tennis-injuries-alcaraz-djokovic-raducanu-complaints\">Kyle Edmund speaks out about injuries after Carlos Alcaraz, Novak Djokovic, Emma Raducanu complained<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf I hadn\u2019t won Wimbledon, certainly from a British sporting public perspective, my career would have been a failure,\u201d he said on the latest ATP Tour\u2019s Aces No 1 Club feature.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe main feeling at the time was just relief. I wouldn\u2019t have to spend the rest of my life thinking about, you know, what if, what could have been.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Murray, of course, played in an era that was dominated by Novak Djokovic, Rafael Nadal and Roger Federer with the Big Three hogging the No 1 spot in the ATP Rankings.<\/p>\n<p>Yet, Murray went on to become world No 1 after winning four titles in a row at the back-end of the 2016 with his crowning moment coming at the Paris Masters as he became the only the 26th man to top the rankings.<\/p>\n<p>He went one better as he also won the ATP Finals to secure the year-end No 1 ranking.<\/p>\n<p>And it is the No 1 achievement that he feels is harder than winning a Grand Slam.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTo get to No 1 in the world when you\u2019re surrounded by, you know, the greatest players of all time, that\u2019s 52 weeks of really, really hard work and top performances to get there.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnd I would argue it is a lot harder to achieve than winning a Grand Slam.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Murray won Wimbledon, the ATP Finals, the Shanghai Masters, the Paris Masters, Queen\u2019s Club Championship, China Open and Vienna Open during his all-conquering 2016 season while he also won singles gold at the Rio Games, but no ranking points are on offer at the Olympics.<\/p>\n<p>The British star \u2013 who <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tennis365.com\/tennis-news\/andy-murray-golf-move-tennis-retirement\">retired after the 2024 Paris Olympics<\/a> \u2013 also finished runner-up at the Australian Open, French Open, Madrid Open, Italian Open and Cincinnati Open that year.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Article End --><\/div>\n<\/section>\n<\/article>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Andy Murray says this achievement is harder to obtain than winning a Grand Slam Shahida Jacobs 21 Jul 2026 1:15 PM Andy Murray with the ATP year-end No 1 trophy Andy Murray won three Grand Slams during his distinguished career, yet the tennis great \u201cwould argue\u201d there is one achievement that is harder to accomplish [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[226,249],"class_list":["post-2054002","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-crawlmanager","tag-tennis365-com"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2054002","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2054002"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2054002\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2054002"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2054002"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2054002"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}