Murray: I got it wrong

Andy Murray admitted he got his tactics wrong after crashing out of Wimbledon at the semi-final stage for the third year in a row.

Just as it was 12 months ago, it was top seed Rafael Nadal who ended the Scot’s dreams of becoming the first British man since Bunny Austin in 1938 to reach the Wimbledon final.

This time Murray won the first set and looked to have a real chance of beating the formidable Spaniard, but errors crept in and in the end Nadal ran out a comfortable 5-7 6-2 6-2 6-4 winner to advance to a Sunday clash with Novak Djokovic.

Murray has been criticised in the past for being too passive and today he felt he went too far in the other direction, with a tally of 39 unforced errors telling its own story.

The 24-year-old said: “You can beat him by playing patient. When I’ve beaten him in the past, at the US Open and the Australian Open, I played a little bit more patient. Today I maybe got the balance a little bit wrong.

“But you need to try to find a way. Each time you play against one of the best players you need to play slightly differently because they’re going to change their game against you. You have to make adjustments.”