Roger Federer is one of the greatest champions in the history of the sport. Wallpaper Thursday is the new Wallpaper Wednesday! Federer is a Wimbledon junior champion in and won his first Grand Slam singles title at Wimbledon in at age He made his first appearance in the main draw in , where he could not get pas the first round. In Federer won 11 of 15 tournaments, including Wimbledon and the U. From July to November he also reached 24 straight finals.
The Swiss did not make it past the first round of Wimbledon since his debut in for five years. He finally managed to in the Wimbledon Championships shocking the world with a famous win. Federer ended the match streak of idol and time Grand Slam Champion Pete Sampras in the fourth round. He went on to reach the final comfortably beating Australian Mark Philippoussis 7—6 5 , 6—2, 7—6 3 in the final.
The first Wimbledon began the reign of Federer as one of the best players in the world. Federer went on to win seven more titles including his eighth in He beat the Croatian Marin Cilic in the final without dropping a set in the tournament. The win was also his 19th Grand Slam of his career and the second Grand Slam in He has 11 runner-up finishes in Grand Slam tournament finals, a record tied with legend Ivan Lendl.
He has now won 8 Wimbledon titles, the most recent of which he won in In , Federer set out to win an unprecedented 9th crown, but was defeated in a 5-set thriller by Serb, Novak Djokovic. In achieving his eight Wimbledon title wins, Federer has also made four finals, one semi-final and four quarter-finals, giving him a record of in finals, in semis, and in quarters. Aside from an anomalous second round exit in , Federer has made the final eight every single year since , an extraordinary record; one he enhanced at the Championship.
Federer won his first ever Wimbledon title in , but his potential to dominate there became apparent a couple of years earlier when he met Sampras in the fourth round. Sampras, at that stage, was in the middle of a run of success at the event which may never be seen again, having won four titles in a row and seven of the past eight.
What followed was a match for the ages, and one which would change the landscape of professional tennis. One of these talents is, of course, Rafael Nadal, against whom he has had some of the most memorable matches of all time. One of these was in , when Federer had won five consecutive titles, and a year-old Nadal was all that stood in the way of a sixth.
The champ went down early, losing each of the first two sets Unwilling to concede his reign of dominance so easily to the young Spaniard, Federer fought back, winning the next two sets in thrilling tiebreakers.
This time it was against Andy Roddick in , and lasted over 5 hours. In a match lasting , the longest Wimbledon final on record, Federer lost an extraordinary match in the final to Novak Djokovic.
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