World No.1 Roger Federer believes the pressure is firmly on fifth seed Andy Murray heading into the Australian Open final on Sunday night.
A three-time champion in Melbourne, Federer has also won 15 Grand Slam titles, while Murray is yet to taste success at a major tournament and has only once made a final - the 2008 US Open where he was comprehensively beaten by Federer.
Great Britain's Murray also has to deal with the hopes of an entire nation, who has not had a Grand Slam champion since Fred Perry in 1936.
Federer joked that it's been '150,000' years since there was a British champion and later said that Murray 'needs' to win more than he does.
"I don't feel like the pressure's really on me having to do it again, because I did it before," Federer said after his semi-final victory over Jo-Wilfried Tsonga on Friday night.
"I think he really needs it more than I do. So I think the pressure's big on him."
"But we'll see how he's gonna handle it. It's not going to be easy for him, that's for sure."
"Plus he's playing, you know, me, who's won many Grand Slams prior to that, been able to win here three times so I know what it takes and how to do it, which is definitely an advantage."
Murray has dropped just one set en route to the final and arguably carries the better form into the final with a win over world No.2 Rafael Nadal in the quarters.
He also takes a 6-4 winning record into the clash, but Federer said that counts for little as many of those matches he wasn't playing at his best.
"I think a few times he played me I wasn't at my very, very best. Dubai the first time we played, I just came back from resting, my mono, and everything," he said.
"We had some close matches on many occasions where I thought I was in control and I ended up giving the match away by making errors of my own. That was definitely because of his play and the way he plays."
"So I think the head-to-head could be quite different. But that's why I don't really care too much about how the head-to-head stands. Every match is played differently. Best-of-five is anyway very different."
"He's done well against me to win so many matches when he was able to beat me when he was supposed to."
Federer also believes that the outcome of the match will depend on how he plays, rather than what Murray can bring to the table.
And in an ominous warning to Murray, Federer proclaimed that he doesn't play 'bad matches' anymore.
"I always felt, you know, if I played well, I had my chance. If I don't play well, I'm gonna lose," he said.
"It's been against many sort of counterpunchers, guys that keep the ball in play. I knew if I was not going to play a good match, you know, you could just walk off the court and shake hands and say, 'well done'."
"But I usually don't play bad matches anymore. If I do, it's maybe a few games here and there like everybody else."