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Grand Slam tournaments

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

• By winning 2003 Wimbledon Championships, Federer joined Stefan Edberg, Pat Cash, and Björn Borg as the only players to win both the juniors' and men's Wimbledon championships.

• 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. He eventually won his first seven Grand Slam singles finals before losing to Rafael Nadal in the 2006 French Open final. Only Federer, American Richard Sears, and Briton William Renshaw won their first seven Grand Slam singles finals. As of July 2007, Federer has won eleven of his thirteen Grand Slam singles finals.

• With his victory over Marcos Baghdatis at the 2006 Australian Open, Federer became the first man to win three consecutive Grand Slam titles since Sampras in 1993-94. Federer repeated this feat at the 2007 Australian Open.

• Federer has won five consecutive men's singles titles at Wimbledon (2003-2007), a feat accomplished only by Bjorn Borg in the open era. In the 34 matches Federer played at Wimbledon during those years, he dropped just eight sets. In comparison, Borg lost nineteen sets over the five year period he won the championships. Sampras lost fourteen sets over the four-year period he won the championships.

• Federer is the only male tennis player to have won eight Grand Slam singles titles in three years (2004-2006).

• By reaching the singles semifinals at the 2007 Australian Open, Federer broke Ivan Lendl's previous record of ten consecutive Grand Slam semifinal appearances with his eleventh consecutive semifinal appearance. He subsequently extended this record to twelve when he reached the semifinals of the 2007 French Open and to thirteen by reaching the semifinals of the 2007 Wimbledon Championships.

• 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.

• By reaching the singles final of the 2007 French Open, Federer reached his eighth consecutive Grand Slam singles final and broke the previous record of seven consecutive Grand Slam singles finals set by Australian Jack Crawford at Wimbledon in 1934. He subsequently extended his own record by appearing in the final of the 2007 Wimbledon Championships, making this nine.

• With winning the 2007 Australian Open, Federer won his sixth Grand Slam singles title in his last seven attempts, equalling Laver's accomplishment.

• 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.^[1]

• By winning the 2007 Wimbledon Championships, Federer won his eleventh career Grand Slam singles title and tied Björn Borg and Rod Laver for third place on the all-time Grand Slam singles titles leaderboard.

• 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: 3 times).

• By winning the 2007 Australian Open, Federer became the first man in the open era to win three straight Grand Slam singles titles twice in his career (2005 Wimbledon, 2005 U.S. Open, and 2006 Australian Open; 2006 Wimbledon, 2006 U.S. Open, and 2007 Australian Open).

• 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.

• Federer 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 the most consecutive sets won in Grand Slam singles tournaments.

• Federer is tied for most consecutive titles in the Open Era at three different Slams: Australian Open = 2, Wimbledon = 5, US Open = 3 consecutive. This is the first time a single player has tied three Slam win streaks, let alone *at the same time* (not counting the trivial case at the inception of the Open Era where one Slam was the maximum).

• Federer is the only male player to win five consecutive Wimbledon singles titles (2003-2007), three consecutive U.S. Open singles titles (2004-2006), and two consecutive Australian Open (2006-2007) titles at the same time.

• Federer is also the only male player to win at least three consecutive Wimbledon and U.S. Open singles titles during the open era.

• 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 tied with Bjorn Borg for the record of consecutive Wimbledon titles: 5 from 2003 to 2007. He is now two wins away from Pete Sampras's record for overall Wimbledon wins.

• By winning Wimbledon 2007, Federer became the only man to have won at least 2 Grand Slam titles per year for 4 consecutive years.

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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.
• In 2006, Federer became the first man since Lendl to reach the final of four consecutive Tennis Masters Cups. Lendl reached a record nine consecutive finals at that event.
• 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.
• In 2006, Federer extended his record run as the only person to remain undefeated in the round robin stage of the Tennis Masters Cup. In his five years of playing the tournament, Federer has won all 15 of his round robin matches.

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ATP Masters Series tournaments

• Federer owns 13 Tennis Masters Series shields, second only to Andre Agassi's 17.

• In 2005, Federer became the first player to win four Tennis Masters Series titles in one year. He repeated this feat in 2006.

• Federer is the third player to have won all four North American Masters Series events in a career, after Agassi and Michael Chang.

• 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. Federer's streak reached 29 matches before he lost to Rafael Nadal in the final of the 2006 Monte Carlo Open.

• 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.^[2]

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Ranking and points

• 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 and 2006). The others are Jimmy Connors, Ivan Lendl, Pete Sampras, and Lleyton Hewitt.

• 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.

• 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.

• Federer holds the record for the highest ranking points at any time of the year: 8,370 points on November 20, 2006.

• Federer has been the top ranked player on the ATP list since February 2, 2004—a total of 180 weeks as of July 9th, 2007. On February 26, 2007, he surpassed Connors's all-time record for most consecutive weeks (160) atop the men's rankings. Only Connors (268 weeks), Lendl (270 weeks), and Sampras (286 weeks) have spent more weeks in total as top ranked players on the ATP list.

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Individual match records

• In a semifinal of the 2004 Tennis Masters Cup, Federer won a second set tiebreak against Marat Safin 20-18. 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 Björn Borg (first round Wimbledon 1973 against Premjit Lal), Goran Ivanišević (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 Björn Phau), and Jo-Wilfried Tsonga (first round Australian Open 2007 against Andy Roddick) have won such drawn out tiebreaks.

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Match winning streaks

• In 2006 Wimbledon Championships, with his first round victory over Richard Gasquet, Federer surpassed Björn Borg's 41-match grass court winning streak record. Borg set this record from 1976 to 1981, while playing only Wimbledon. In 2007, Federer took the streak to 54 consecutive matches by defeating Rafael Nadal in the Wimbledon final. (Federer did not play Halle in 2007, citing fatigue after his loss in the French Open Final to Nadal and he had a bye in the Fourth Round of Wimbledon when Tommy Haas withdrew before the match with a torn stomach muscle).

• 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. 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.

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

• Federer holds the longest winning streak on hard courts: 56 matches (2005-06). The streak was ended by Nadal in the Dubai final in March 2006. 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 Indian Wells when Federer lost to Guillermo Cañas in the second round.

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Tournament winning streaks

• In 2004, Federer became the first player since Björn Borg in 1979 to win consecutive tournaments on three different surfaces, having captured titles at Wimbledon (grass), Gstaad (clay), and Toronto (hard).

• 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. It marked also the first time Federer won five consecutive tournaments he entered. David Nalbandian broke the streak in the final of the 2005 Tennis Masters Cup.

• 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.

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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.

• In 2005, Federer won 95.3 percent of his matches (he went 81-4), second in the open era to McEnroe's 96.5 percent (82-3) in 1984.

• In 2006, Federer won at least 80 matches for a 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. Federer has won at least seventy matches in four consecutive years (2003: 78-17; 2004: 74-6; 2005: 81-4; 2006: 92-5).

• In 2006, Federer reached the final in 16 of the 17 tournaments he played, setting a new record of 94.1 percent finals appearances. ^[3] This eclipsed McEnroe's 93.3 percent set in 1984.^{[citation needed]}

• In 2006, Federer earned U.S. $8,343,885 in prize money, breaking the previous record of U.S. $6,498,311 earned by Pete Sampras in 1997.

• 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. In 2006, he became the first man since Thomas Muster in 1995 to win 12 titles in one year.

• 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. He won at least 11 titles during the years 2004, 2005 and 2006.

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Career excellence

• As of May 20, 2007, Federer has won 48 of 61 finals during his career, for a winning percentage of 78.7 percent. This compares to 72.7 percent by Pete Sampras, 71.3 percent by John McEnroe, and 70.5 percent by Björn Borg.

• 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.

• 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).)

• Federer won 31 consecutive sets beginning with his Tennis Masters Cup roundrobin 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.

• As of 2007, Federer has won singles tournaments in 16 different countries: Australia, Austria, Canada, People's Republic of China, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, The Netherlands, Qatar, Spain, Switzerland, Thailand, United Arab Emirates, United Kingdom, and the United States.

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