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Bionic Poster
Murray has a 99% record in big title matches against anyone outside the Big 3 (sole exception was losing 2016 Cincy final to Cilic which was kind of excusable as he had just won Wimbledon and Olympics back to back and Cilic is a Slam champion after all) so I think that is quite sufficient to speculate otherwise but you have your opinion and I have mine and we are both entitled to it.
Murray would win many Masters level tournaments in any era, that's not in dispute.
But it is ridiculous to bunch slam and masters/YEC finals here together in this since its known Murray's problem was in slam finals.
He was winning Masters in 08-11 without winning any slams.
Out of 11 slam finals:
Murray has played clearly above average in just 4: Wim 12, USO 12, Wim 13, Wim 16
AO 13, AO 15, AO 10, AO 16, RG 16 were below par to average
USO 08 was clearly mediocre
AO 11 was the worst clearly
For a comparision:
Wawrinka in 4 slam finals, played above average in 3 of them: AO 14, RG 15 and USO 16
mediocre in one of them: RG 17
all 4 slam finals were vs big 3 just to be clear
Roddick in 5 slam finals, played clearly above average in 3: USO 03, Wim 04, Wim 09
USO 06 was average (slightly above average tbh)
Wim 05 - slightly below average
4 of his 5 slam finals were vs Federer
Hewitt in 4 slam finals played clearly above average in 3: USO 01, Wim 02, AO 05
mediocre in one of them: USO 04
3 of the 4 slams finals were against Sampras, Federer, peak Safin
Quite clear that all of Wawrinka/Roddick/Hewitt did significantly better in their slam finals vs quality competition (by name) than Murray did on an average.
The excuse of Murray having to face Big3 in slams finals doesn't cut it with only 4 of 11 performances being above average. (incl 1 vs Raonic)