Federer achieves it all

RF wins the elu­sive FO

You’ve seen it all and read all about it. I don’t have any­thing to add, the feat says every­thing for itself. Yet, I have to blog it for it con­cludes the stretch of posts I have writ­ten on him and ten­nis around him espe­cially after the tor­tu­ous past year or so when it looked so bleak for him.
Will just add quick facts from Greg Garber’s post here–

Sam­pras needed 52 Grand Slam tour­na­ments to achieve his total; Fed­erer accom­plished it in 40.

Based on the tim­ing of Sam­pras’ last title, at the 2002 U.S. Open, Fed­erer has 12 oppor­tu­ni­ties — three years of cham­pi­onship via­bil­ity, essen­tially — to sur­pass him. The fact that he has, after cre­at­ing wide­spread doubt, won two of the past three majors can­not be a com­fort to his younger rivals.

Fed­erer has won his 14 majors in a span of 24 Grand Slam events, going back to 2003. The best streak Sam­pras ever pro­duced was win­ning nine of 17 in a span from 1993 to 1997. You have to go to the women’s side to find com­pa­ra­ble exam­ples. Mar­tina Navratilova won 14 of 23 majors from 1982 to ’87 — the dens­est con­cen­tra­tion of cham­pi­onship excel­lence on record — and Steffi Graf took 14 of 25 between 1988 and 1994.

I know this is not the end, in fact it is a new begin­ning for his ten­nis, now that he can play with­out pres­sure. May we see him take on Nadal with best of his ability.

To his dream vic­tory and streaks of new records he is about to set, cheerz!

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