Big Four (tennis) the first time during the Wimbledon final. The 2012 US Open Men's singles final was the championship tennis match of the Men's Singles tournament at the 2012 US Open. It pitted then-world No. 3 Andy Murray against world No. 2 and defending champion Novak Djokovic in a Grand Slam tournament final for the second time. Murray defeated Djokovic in five sets to win the match. It was the equal-longest US Open men's final in history, lasting four hours and fifty-four minutes (equalling the 1988 US Open final played by Ivan Lendl and Mats Wilander), and the equal second-longest men's final
Jerzy Janowicz pro circuit following his run to the final albeit as a qualifier, of the 2012 Paris Masters, during which he defeated five such top-20 players as Andy Murray and Janko Tipsarević. Despite losing out to David Ferrer in the finals, he made his top-30 debut in the ATP Rankings and became the highest-ranked Polish tennis player. Janowicz became the first Polish male to reach a Grand Slam semifinal at the 2013 Wimbledon Championships, eventually losing out to the eventual champion, Andy Murray. He struggled with a major knee injury during the 2016 season, which led to significant drop in rankings