With the Federer and best of 5 stuff you could be right. Maybe it would have been similar to Federer’s early H2H troubles with Nalbandian which were over in Federer’s peak.Andre Agassi was the greatest returner on earth before Djokovic and Safin was a brute force baseliner in those years, I dont see Murray beating them. You Sampras argument is valid, Murray could neutralize him maybe but the other baseliners he cannot beat, no chance.
Mental scars to Federer? R u joking? Federer would bury him in straight sets, only scars that Fed got were give by a leftie clay GOAT with a lot of RPMS on his forehand, Murray is trash, he has nothing to give scarsThose cincinatti and other 3 sets were useless when he faced Fed at the USO 08, remember? It was a straight sets drubbing.... BO3s have no value. Whatever edge Murray might have in 00-02 over Federer would be no different from what Hewitt or Safin or Nalby had over Fed, scars and such words are laughable .,..... Murray is such a weakling that even Stan has a 5-4 H2H in slams over Murray.... A guy who was Stan's inferior in slams giving scars to the GOAT ??? You must be delusional .... Murray wins nothing more than 1 or 2 slams, thats the same which Hewitt won!
I don’t talk about consistently beating those baseliners you mentioned or definitely leading the H2H against them, but SOMETIMES beat them to take some chances. Remember we are talking about only 3 Slams for the real Murray. And he could beat all of the Big 3 at Slams, so surely there would be days on which he beats Agassi, Safin etc. Especially because they could lose to ANYONE on a bad day.
But all in all, Murray is exactly the same age as GOAT candidate Djokovic who is the same caliber as Federer, and got denied by this Djokovic in 5 Slam finals, so I don’t get the logic why he would have been lucky. And the Slam H2H to Stan is no negative factor here as well, or otherwise you must also say how could Djokovic be so good if he loses to Stan at Slams that often.