10 Reasons Why Andy Murray Can Win Wimbledon 2015

10. Back In Business

When Murray reached the 2012 Wimbledon final but emerged a gallant loser rather than Britain’s first male champion in 76 years, some started to wonder aloud whether the Scot was destined to be one of the sport’s nearly men. After all, the four-set loss suffered at the hands of Roger Federer marked Murray’s fourth defeat in as many Grand Slam final appearances; for some astute observers, the writing was on the wall.

Murray didn’t see it that way.

Instead, he embarked on an annus mirabilis that would see him become the world’s best player in that period, even if the number one ranking remained out of reach. Murray followed up victory in the men’s singles at the 2012 Olympics by winning his maiden Grand Slam at the U.S. Open that same year, also reaching the Australian Open final at the start of 2013 before that famous Wimbledon win guaranteed him sporting immortality.

What makes that golden spell all the more remarkable is the fact that for some time Murray had been experiencing extreme discomfort in his lower back, a disc problem forcing him to miss the French Open prior to his Wimbledon victory and requiring surgery in late-2013.

The surgery went off without a hitch and was relatively straightforward, but Murray’s recovery was anything but.