Very interesting re-reading this thread a few months later.
He may not have won Wimbledon but he has now won the US.
And if anyone chooses to point to the “fact” that Nadal didn’t play and Federer was out, all of the other “Big 4″ won their first major against a non-major winner. Murray is one of a select group of players to have captured their first against a multiple Slam winner.