Lleyton Hewitt would love to see Roger Federer and Andy Murray go at it in another Wimbledon final.

Five years have passed since the Swiss master denied Britain’s great hope in the title match at the All England Club.

A tearful Murray was beaten in four sets that day but has since triumphed twice, in 2013 and last year, with his hopes of a third success alive heading into Wednesday’s quarter-finals.

Top seed Murray will take on American Sam Querrey, and in the bottom half of the draw Federer tackles last year’s beaten finalist Milos Raonic.

Fifteen years after his Wimbledon fortnight of glory, Australia’s retired former champion Hewitt fancies seven-time Centre Court king Federer to steer through to the final on Sunday, and reckons it would make the day more perfect if Murray was on the other side of the net.

“At the moment Federer’s looking pretty good. I wouldn’t rule Murray out though. I’d love to see that final,” Hewitt said.

“Murray and Federer are probably my two favourites at the moment.”

Federer returned from a six-month knee surgery lay-off to dramatically win the Australian Open in January, his first grand slam title since the day he denied Murray at Wimbledon.

And when Australian Hewitt looks at the 35-year-old now, and compares him to the player who succeeded him as Wimbledon champion in 2003, he senses no slip in standards.

“Roger has an uncanny knack of being able to step it up when he needs to,” Hewitt said.

As for Murray’s prospects, Hewitt is more optimistic now than he was prior to the tournament, when for a couple of days at least there was doubt over whether the world No.1 would be fit to compete.