Roger Federer entered the match as the all-time Grand Slam champion with a record of sixteen major titles, although he had not won any in the two and a half years since his victory at the 2010 Australian Open.

Andy Murray had not yet won a single major title and was looking to avoid being the first male player since his coach Ivan Lendl to lose his first four finals.

[5] Federer earned a break early in the fourth set and served the match out for his seventh Wimbledon Championship 4–6, 7–5, 6–3, 6–4.

1 position for the first time since June 2010 which enabled him to pass Sampras and set the record for most weeks at the summit of men's tennis.

For Murray, it was his fourth grand slam final defeat without yet achieving a victory, emulating his coach Ivan Lendl.

[8] The television ratings in the United Kingdom set a record with 16.9 million viewers, which was the highest Wimbledon final viewership since accurate statistics began in 1990.

[9] In the United States it scored the second largest ratings for a Wimbledon final in the last decade behind only 2009 when Federer beat American Andy Roddick 16–14 in the fifth set.