Records held by Roger Federer

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This page lists various career, tournament, and seasonal records as well as achievements of excellence by tennis player Roger Federer.

Contents 1 Grand Slam tournaments 2 Tennis Masters Cup 3 ATP Masters Series tournaments 4 Ranking and points 5 Individual match records 6 Match winning streaks 7 Tournament winning streaks 8 Yearly excellence 9 Career excellence 10 Notes

[edit] Grand Slam tournaments

• In 2001, Federer ended Pete Sampras's 31-match winning streak at Wimbledon in the fourth round of the tournament.^[1]

• By winning Wimbledon in 2003, Federer joined Stefan Edberg, Pat Cash, and Bjorn Borg as the only players to win both the juniors' and gentlemen's Wimbledon championships.^{[citation needed]}

• Federer's victory at the 2004 U.S. Open marked the first time in the open era that anyone had won his first four Grand Slam singles finals.^[2] He eventually won his first seven Grand Slam singles finals before losing to Rafael Nadal in the 2006 French Open final.^[3] Only Federer, American Richard Sears, and Briton William Renshaw won their first seven Grand Slam singles finals.^[4] As of June 9, 2008, Federer has won twelve of his fifteen Grand Slam singles finals (80.0 percent). Sampras won 14 of 18 (77.8 percent), Borg won 11 of 16 (68.7 percent), and Ivan Lendl won 8 of 19 (42.1 percent).^{[citation needed]}

• With his victory over Marcos Baghdatis at the 2006 Australian Open, Federer became the first man to win three consecutive Grand Slam titles since Pete Sampras in 1993-94.^[5] Federer repeated this feat at the 2007 Australian Open, making him the only man to achieve this feat twice in the open era.^[6]

• Federer has won five consecutive men's singles titles at Wimbledon (2003-2007), a feat accomplished only by Borg in the open era.^[7] In the 34 matches Federer played at Wimbledon during those years, he dropped just eight sets.^{[citation needed]} In comparison, Borg lost nineteen sets over the five year period he won Wimbledon (1976-1980). Sampras lost fourteen sets over the four-year period he won Wimbledon (1997-2000). Federer, Sampras, and Borg are the only male players to have won five or more Wimbledon singles titles during the open era, with Federer winning 5, Sampras 7, and Borg 5.

• Federer is the only male tennis player to have won eight Grand Slam singles titles in three years (2005-2007) and twelve in five years (2003-2007).^{[citation needed]} Roy Emerson won 12 Grand Slam singles titles in 7 years (1961-67), and Sampras won 12 of those titles in 10 years (1990-99).

• By reaching the singles semifinals at the 2007 Australian Open, Federer broke Lendl's previous record of ten consecutive Grand Slam semifinal appearances. He subsequently extended this record to sixteen by reaching the semifinals of the 2008 French Open.

• Federer in 2006 became the first man since Rod Laver in 1969 to reach the final of all Grand Slam singles tournaments during a calendar year. He repeated this feat in 2007, becoming the only man to do it two years consecutively.^[8]

• By reaching the singles final of the 2007 French Open, his eighth consecutive Grand Slam singles final, Federer broke the previous male record of seven consecutive Grand Slam singles finals set in 1934^[9] by Australian Jack Crawford. He subsequently extended his own male record by appearing in the final of the 2007 Wimbledon Championships and 2007 U.S. Open making this ten.^[10] His run was stopped by a semifinal loss to Novak Djokovic at the 2008 Australian Open. Steffi Graf appeared in a record 13 consecutive Grand Slams singles finals, from the 1987 French Open through the 1990 French Open.

• With winning the 2007 Australian Open, Federer won his sixth Grand Slam singles title in his last seven attempts, equaling Laver's accomplishment.^{[citation needed]}

• At the 2007 Australian Open, Federer became just the fourth man in the open era to win a Grand Slam singles title without dropping a set. The last man to do this was Borg at the 1980 French Open.^[11] The only other man to win the Australian Open without dropping a set was Ken Rosewall in 1971, although he had to play only five matches.^[12]

• By winning the 2007 Australian Open, Federer became the only male tennis player to win three different Grand Slam singles tournaments at least three times each (Australian Open: 3 times; Wimbledon: 5 times; U.S. Open: 4 times).^[13]

• Federer won his 11th consecutive Grand Slam singles match in straight sets when he defeated Mikhail Youzhny in the fourth round of the 2007 French Open. This tied John McEnroe's open era record for the most consecutive straight-set victories in Grand Slam singles tournaments. He then won his 36th consecutive Grand Slam singles set when he won the first set in the quarterfinals against Tommy Robredo at the 2007 French Open. This broke McEnroe's open era record for most consecutive sets won in Grand Slam singles events.^{[citation needed]}

• Federer is also the only male player during the open era to win at least four consecutive Wimbledon and U.S. Open singles titles. He is thus the only player in history to win two of the same Grand Slam titles for four consecutive years (2004-07). Bjorn Borg won Wimbledon and the French Open four consecutive times each, but unlike Federer, not simultaneously.^{[citation needed]}

• Federer is also the only male player to have two streaks of 27 consecutive Grand Slams singles match wins, 2 matches short of the record set by Laver.^{[citation needed]}

• By winning the 2007 Wimbledon Championships, Federer became the only male player to have won at least 2 Grand Slam titles per year for 4 consecutive years (2004-07).^{[citation needed]}

• In a fourth round match against Spaniard Feliciano Lopez at the 2007 U.S. Open, Federer set a Grand Slam record of 35 consecutive points won on his own service games.^{[citation needed]}

• By winning the 2007 U.S. Open, Federer now holds the open era record for most consecutive U.S. Open titles at four.^[14] The previous open era record was three consecutive U.S. Open titles by both Lendl and McEnroe.^[15]

• At the 2007 U.S. Open, Federer earned US$2.4 million, the highest prize money ever awarded at a single tournament, due to a $1 million bonus for winning the 2007 U.S. Open Series.^{[citation needed]}

• Federer and Nadal are the only No. 1 and 2 pair to contest back-to-back the French and Wimbledon finals for two years in a row (2006-7).^{[citation needed]}

• Federer and Nadal are the only No. 1 and 2 pair who have won at least 11 consecutive Grand Slam singles tournaments between them, starting from the 2005 French Open through the 2007 U.S. Open. In this period, Federer has won 3 consecutive titles at both Wimbledon and the U.S. Open and 2 consecutive titles at the Australian Open, while Nadal has won 3 consecutive French Open titles.^{[citation needed]}

• Federer is undefeated in singles finals at the Australian Open (3), Wimbledon (5), and the U.S. Open (4). His only 3 losses in Grand Slam singles finals have come at the French Open.

• Federer is the second player to win two different Grand Slam tournaments at least four times consecutively (Wimbledon and the US Open). Borg was the first person to achieve this feat (French Open and Wimbledon).^[16]

• During the open era, only Federer (2003-07), McEnroe (1980-84), and Borg (1976-81) have appeared in five or more consecutive Wimbledon singles finals.

• During the open era, only Federer (2004-07) and Lendl (1982-89) have reached four or more consecutive US Open men singles finals.

• Federer is the only male player to have won three Grand Slam titles in a year three different times in his career (2004, 2006, 2007).^{[citation needed]}

• During the open era, only Federer has appeared in the final of each Grand Slam singles tournament at least three times.

• During the open era, only Federer (2006, against Nadal), Sampras (1994, against Ivanisevic) and Boris Becker (1989, against Edberg) have won a 6-0 set in a Wimbledon final.^{[citation needed]}

• Federer's defeat of Lleyton Hewitt in the 2004 US Open final was the first time during the open era that a player had won two 6-0 sets in a Grand Slam singles final.^{[citation needed]}

• Federer is the only male player to have won during the open era at least one 6-0 set in the singles final of three different Grand Slam tournaments: the 2006 Australian Open against Baghdatis, the 2006 Wimbledon final against Nadal, and the 2004 US Open against Hewitt.^{[citation needed]}

• Federer, Agassi, and Connors have appeared in 15 Grand Slam singles finals. Among male players, only Borg (16), Sampras (18), and Lendl (19) have appeared in more Grand Slam singles finals during the open era.

• Federer and Emerson have won 12 Grand Slam singles titles, which is second only to Sampras's 14 titles.

• During the open era, only Federer (2003-07), Sampras (1993-2000), and Borg (1974-81) have won at least one Grand Slam title for at least five consecutive years.

• During the open era, only two pairs of players have played each other in the final of a Grand Slam singles tournament three consecutive years: Becker-Edberg (Wimbledon 1988-90) and Federer-Nadal (French Open 2006-08).

• During the open era, only Federer (2006-08), Nadal (2005-08), Lendl (1984-87), and Borg (1978-81) have apppeared in at least three consecutive French Open singles finals.

• During the open era, only Federer and Lendl have appeared in at least three consecutive finals of three different Grand Slam singles tournaments.^{[citation needed]}

[edit] Tennis Masters Cup

• In 2004, Federer became the first player since Ivan Lendl in 1986 and 1987 to win back-to-back Tennis Masters Cup titles without losing a match.^{[citation needed]}

• In 2005, Federer became the first man to win a match 6-0, 6-0 (a "double bagel") at the Tennis Masters Cup, when he defeated Gaston Gaudio in a semifinal. This was the first double bagel win of Federer's career.^{[citation needed]}

• Federer and Lendl are the only players to have won two consecutive Tennis Masters Cup titles twice in their careers.

• Both Federer (2003-07) and Ilie Năstase (1971-75) have appeared in five consecutive Tennis Masters Cup finals, with Lendl appearing in a record nine consecutive finals (1980-88).

• Both Federer and Năstase have won 4 Tennis Masters Cup titles in 5 years.

[edit] ATP Masters Series tournaments

• In 2005, Federer became the first player to win four Tennis Masters Series titles in one year. He repeated this feat in 2006.^{[citation needed]}

• Federer is the third player to have won all four North American Masters Series events in a career, after Andre Agassi and Michael Chang.^{[citation needed]}

• Federer broke Pete Sampras's record of 19 consecutive Tennis Masters Series match victories when he defeated Tommy Haas in the third round of the 2006 Nasdaq 100 Open in Key Biscayne, Florida.^{[citation needed]} Federer's streak reached 29 matches before he lost to Rafael Nadal in the final of the 2006 Masters Series Monte-Carlo.^[17]

• By winning the 2006 Nasdaq 100 Open title, Federer became the only player to win the first two Tennis Masters Series events of the year two years in a row.^[18]

• Federer is the only person to have won both the Canada and Hamburg Masters.^{[citation needed]}

• Federer has won 14 Tennis Masters Series singles titles, second only to the 17 titles won by Agassi.^{[citation needed]}

• Both Federer and Chang have won three titles at the Pacific Life Open in Indian Wells, California, but Federer is the only player to have won three consecutive titles there (2004 - 06).^{[citation needed]}

• Federer is the only player during the open era to have won four Hamburg Masters singles titles.^{[citation needed]}

• Federer and Nadal are the only players to play each other in three consecutive Masters Series Monte-Carlo finals (2006-08) during the open era.^{[citation needed]}

[edit] Ranking and points

• Federer is the first player to be ranked World No. 1 for four consecutive (non-calendar) years^[19] from February 2, 2004, through February 1, 2008.

• As of June 09, 2008, Federer has been the top ranked player on the ATP computer for a record 228 consecutive weeks.^[20]

• Federer is the first player to be ranked No. 1 for more than 200 consecutive weeks, thus surpassing Steffi Graf for the all-time record of 186 consecutive weeks among all tennis players, male or female. On February 26, 2007, he surpassed Connors's all-time record for most consecutive weeks (160) atop the men's rankings.^[21] Only Connors (268 weeks, top ranked nine separate periods), Lendl (270 weeks, top ranked eight separate periods) and Sampras (286 weeks, top ranked eleven separate periods) have spent more weeks in total as top ranked players on the ATP list ^{[22] [23]} (If Federer remains on top of the ATP ranking, he will equal Sampras' record on July 20, 2009.)^{[citation needed]}

• Federer in 2007 became the fifth man since the inception of the ATP computer rankings in 1973 to be year-end number one four times (Jimmy Connors, John McEnroe, Ivan Lendl, and Pete Sampras were the others).^[24]

• Federer is the fifth player in the history of the ATP computer rankings to be the top ranked player every week during a calendar year (2005, 2006, and 2007). The others are Jimmy Connors, Ivan Lendl, Pete Sampras, and Lleyton Hewitt.^[25] Only Federer and Connors achieved this three different years, but only Federer has done it three consecutive years.^{[citation needed]}

• With his tournament victory at the 2006 Tennis Masters Cup, Federer set a new record of 1,674 ATP Race points, eclipsing his 2005 record of 1,345. He had also held the previous record of 1,267 points in 2004, which had broken Andy Roddick's 907-point total for 2003.^{[citation needed]}

• With year-end ATP tour ranking points of 6,335 in 2004, 6,725 in 2005, and 8,370 in 2006, Federer finished with the highest number of year-ending ATP tour ranking points since the ATP circuit began in 1990, although the points breakdown changed slightly in 2000. The previous year-ending high was Sampras's 5,097 points in 1994.^{[citation needed]}

• Federer holds the record for the highest ATP computer ranking points at any time of the year: 8,370 points on November 20, 2006.^{[citation needed]}

[edit] Individual match records

• In a semifinal of the 2004 Tennis Masters Cup, Federer won a second set tiebreak against Marat Safin 20-18, the longest tiebreak in Tennis Masters Cup history.^[26] This tiebreak lasted 26 minutes and tied the record for the longest tiebreak (in terms of points) ever played since the tiebreak system was introduced in 1970. Besides Federer, only Bjorn Borg (first round Wimbledon 1973 against Premjit Lal), Goran Ivanisevic (first round U.S. Open 1993 against Daniel Nestor and semifinal Queen's Club 1997 against Greg Rusedski), José Acasuso (first round Canada Masters 2006 against Bjorn Phau), and Jo-Wilfried Tsonga (first round Australian Open 2007 against Andy Roddick) have won such drawn out tiebreaks.^{[citation needed]}

[edit] Match winning streaks

• At Wimbledon in 2006, with his first round victory over Richard Gasquet, Federer surpassed Bjorn Borg's 41-match grass court winning streak record.^[27] Borg set this record from 1976 to 1981, while playing only Wimbledon.^[28] In 2007, Federer took the streak to 54 consecutive matches by defeating Rafael Nadal in the Wimbledon final.^[29]

• On 26 October 2006, Federer became only the second player in the open era, the other being Borg, to have held five winning streaks of more than twenty matches. Federer's first streak was 23 matches in mid-2004. The second streak was 26 matches spanning the latter half of 2004 and early 2005. The third streak was 25 matches in early 2005.^[30] The fourth streak was 35 matches at the end of 2005. The fifth (and longest) streak started at the 2006 U.S. Open and ended after 41 victories on March 11, 2007, which included tournament victories at the U.S. Open, Tokyo, ATP Masters Series in Madrid, Davidoff Swiss Indoors in Basel, Tennis Masters Cup in Shanghai, the Australian Open in Melbourne, and the Dubai Duty Free Men's Open. This is the fifth longest winning streak in the open era.^{[citation needed]}

• Federer won a record 26 consecutive matches against top ten ranked opponents.^[31] The streak lasted from October 2003 to January 2005, when he lost to Marat Safin in a semifinal of the Australian Open.^{[citation needed]}

• Federer holds the longest winning streak on hard courts during the open era: 56 matches (2005-06). The streak was ended by Nadal in the Dubai final in March 2006.^[32] At the 2006 U.S. Open, Federer started another hard court streak, which reached 36 consecutive wins (including tournament victories at the U.S. Open, Tokyo, ATP Masters Series in Madrid, Tennis Masters Cup in Shanghai, the Australian Open, Dubai, and two Davis Cup matches in Geneva against Serbia-Montenegro). The streak ended on March 11, 2007, at the Pacific Life Open in Indian Wells, California when Federer lost to Guillermo Cañas in the second round.^{[citation needed]}

• Federer's 41-match winning streak^[33] against American players ended when he lost to Mardy Fish in a semifinal of the 2008 Pacific Life Open in Indian Wells, California.

• Federer holds the record for most consecutive singles wins in North America, winning 55 straight matches before losing to Andy Murray in August 2006.^[34] (This loss also stopped Federer’s streak of 17 consecutive finals reached, just one shy of Ivan Lendl's record 18 consecutive finals in 1981 and 1982.^[35])

[edit] Tournament winning streaks

• In 2004, Federer became the first player since Bjorn Borg in 1979 and Ivan Lendl in 1985 (twice) and 1989 to win consecutive tournaments on three different surfaces, having captured titles at Wimbledon (grass), Gstaad (clay), and Toronto (hard).^{[citation needed]}

• Federer won 24 straight finals from the tournament in Vienna in October 2003 through the tournament in Bangkok in September 2005. This streak was a new open era record, breaking the previous record of twelve straight final wins shared by John McEnroe and Borg.^[36] David Nalbandian broke Federer's streak in the final of the 2005 Tennis Masters Cup.^[37]

• Federer won four consecutive titles at one event for the first time on June 18, 2006, at the Gerry Weber Open. He repeated this feat by winning his fourth consecutive Wimbledon championship in 2006, beating Rafael Nadal in the final. He improved upon this by winning his fifth consecutive Wimbledon championship in 2007, again beating Rafael Nadal in the final and thus equalling Bjorn Borg's open era record. Furthermore, in 2007, Federer won his fourth consecutive U.S. Open, breaking the open era record.^{[citation needed]}

• At the 2007 U.S. Open, Federer equalled Lendl's record of 27 consecutive match wins at the U.S. Open.^{[citation needed]}

[edit] Yearly excellence

• Federer's loss against Richard Gasquet in the 2005 Monte Carlo Masters brought his win-loss tally to 35-2 for 2005, the best start on the men's tour since John McEnroe, who went 39-0 in 1984.^{[citation needed]}

• In 2006, Federer won at least 80 matches for the second straight year, the first player to do so since Ivan Lendl went 106-26 in 1980, 96-14 in 1981, and 106-9 in 1982.^[38] Federer has won at least seventy matches in four consecutive years (2003: 78-17; 2004: 74-6; 2005: 81-4; 2006: 92-5).^{[citation needed]}

• In 2006, Federer reached the final in 16 of the 17 tournaments he played, setting a new record of 94.1 percent finals appearances.^[39] This eclipsed McEnroe's 93.3 percent set in 1984.^{[citation needed]}

• In 2007, Federer earned a record U.S. $10,130,620 in prize money, surpassing his own previous record of $8,343,885 set in 2006. That year, he broke the previous record of U.S. $6,498,311 earned by Pete Sampras in 1997.^{[citation needed]}

• In 2004, Federer became the tenth player in the open era to win at least 11 singles titles in a year. He is the first year-end No. 1 to win 11 titles since Lendl in 1985. In addition, Federer is the only player to win at least 10 titles in a season without losing in a final.^{[citation needed]} In 2006, he became the first man since Thomas Muster in 1995 to win 12 titles in one year.^[40]

• In 2006, Federer became the only player in the open era to have won at least 10 singles titles in each of three consecutive years.^[41] He won at least 11 titles during the years 2004, 2005 and 2006.^{[citation needed]}

[edit] Career excellence

• As of April 20, 2008, Federer has won 54 of 71 finals during his career, for a winning percentage of 76.0 percent. This compares to 72.7 percent by Pete Sampras, 71.3 percent by John McEnroe, and 70.5 percent by Bjorn Borg.^{[citation needed]}

• From 2004 through 2006, Federer had the best three-year match and tournament winning percentages since the inception of the Association of Tennis Professionals rankings in 1973. Federer won 94.3 percent of his singles matches (247-15) and 69.4 percent of the singles tournaments he entered (34 titles in 49 tournaments, including eight of twelve Grand Slam tournaments). The three-year match winning percentage record was previously owned by Ivan Lendl, who won 92.1 percent of his singles matches from 1985 through 1987. Federer has since extended the record to four years, again besting Ivan Lendl and was very close to establishing the new mark for the best 5 consecutive seasons ever in the history of tennis.^{[citation needed]}

• By 2005, Federer had won singles and doubles titles on all four surfaces: hardcourt, clay, carpet, and grass. (Singles: Sydney 2002 (hard), Hamburg 2002 (clay), Milan 2001 (carpet), and Halle 2003 (grass); Doubles: Rotterdam 2001 (hard), Gstaad 2001 (clay), Moscow 2002 (carpet), and Halle 2005 (grass).^{[citation needed]}

• Federer won 31 consecutive sets beginning with his Tennis Masters Cup round robin match against Andy Roddick on November 14, 2006, and ending with his first round match against Kristian Pless at the Dubai Tennis Championships on February 26, 2007.^{[citation needed]}

• On October 27, 2007, Federer recorded his 544th career victory, which saw him overtake Carlos Moya (543) as the most active match wins leader on the ATP circuit.^{[citation needed]}

• As of April 2008, Federer has won singles tournaments in 17 different countries: Australia, Austria, Canada, People's Republic of China, England, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, the Netherlands, Portugal, Qatar, Spain, Switzerland, Thailand, United Arab Emirates, and the United States.^{[citation needed]}

[edit] Notes