Federer who beat Roddick for his 15th Grand Slam title now goes ahead of Pete Sampras who has 14 Grand Slam titles. Federer’s statistics shows that he is the greatest and they are staggering.
He has won all his 15 grand slam titles in six years and has won on all the different surfaces which are hard court, clay and grass. After winning on the clay at the French Open this year that made him a winner on all surfaces, which Sampras wasn’t as he never won the French Open. Federer has been in 21 consecutive semi-finals and he has been in 16 of the last 17 grand slam finals which is amazing consistency. If Rafael Nadal wasn’t around then Federer would have won more French Open titles as he was the runner up three times to Nadal.
Rod Laver would be the closet to Federer even though he won only 11 Grand Slam titles. Laver could have won more had he participated in the five years of tennis which he missed. Plus Laver had won all four grand slams in a row twice which Federer hasn’t done even once. Federer also has a bad head to head record against Rafael Nadal who has beaten him at three of the four grand slam finals (Australian, French and Wimbledon).
But it all comes down to who you would want to watch and Laver in his time was great but Federer moves around the tennis court like a ballerina, he can hit every shot that is possible and some that are impossible and he has a serve which isn’t as quick as Roddick’s but is just as good which was shown by Federer producing more aces then Roddick.
Federer is only 27 years old and still has another three years left of high quality tennis. He says he wants compete at the Olympics at 2012 at Wimbledon and he wants his first child to see him win another grand slam. It’s good news for spectators but bad news for the players on the opposite side of the tennis net.
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