Facts about Roger Federer : Know the reality..!!

• Roger Federer is one of the players to mark his victory in U.S. Open and Wimbledon for three consecutive years.
  
  
• Roger Federer is the first ever Swiss man to win Wimbledon.
  
  
• His increasing performance can be noted from the fact that by the end of year 2006, he recorded his victory in 92 matches which were record breaking for his own scores of year 2005. He won 81 matches in 2005.
  
  
• Federer is ranked on top in men’s singles series but he still lags behind in doubles. With a record maintained at 3-3, Roger claims 369th position when it comes to doubles game.
  
  
• For all six matches in doubles, he has been accompanied by Yves Allegro.
  
  
• Federer won a record-equaling fourth Masters Series title -- the second straight year he won four Masters Series events. In doing so, he became the first player since the Masters Series tournaments started in 1990 to win four shields in back-to-back seasons. In all he has won 4ATP master Series Titles in 2006.
  
  
• Earlier in 2006, he became the first player to win at Indian Wells and Miami in successive seasons.
  
  
  
  
  
• In 2006, he finished in the world's top 10 for the first time in his career - at number six.
  
  
• On Feb. 2, 2004, Federer took the No. 1 ranking away from Andy Roddick. Since then, 147 weeks have passed and no player has challenged him for the top spot since. This is the first longest span for any player to hold the top position for such span. See comments below regarding the threat to this streak.
  
  
• In 2001, in the fourth round at Wimbledon, he ended the 31-match unbeaten run of seven-time champion Pete Sampras.
  
  
• He finished number one junior in the world in 1998.
  
  
• Also in 1998, he won the Wimbledon juniors singles and doubles titles.
  
  
• He has consequently won 6 matches against Blake, without loosing even single one.  However, despite a career-high ranking of No. 4 and five titles, Blake has not been record his victory against Roger.
  
  
• Federer became the seventh active player to achieve the No. 1 ranking early in 2004.
  
  
• Federer became the first player to earn as huge amounts at 8million Dollars. By winning master cup he was able to fetch a total of $8,343,885 in 2006.
  
  
• Till now he has won a total of 9 Grand Slam Titles.
  
  
• In total Federer posses 45 carrer titles bearing 11th rank in the Open Era.
  
  
• After winning Madrid in mid-October, Federer became the first player in the Open era to record double-digit titles for three consecutive years. His season started with a title in Doha, Qatar, and culminated 11 months later with a Masters Cup championship.
  
  
• As many as 12 titles have been bagged by Roger in the year 2006.
  
  
• At the 2006 ATP Awards, Roger won the Player of the Year, Stefan Edberg Sportsmanship, ATPtennis.com Fans' Favorite, and the Arthur Ashe Humanitarian of the Year awards.
  
  
• Roger is in the running, along with seven-times Formula One world champion Michael Schumacher and golfer Tiger Woods, for a third Laureus World Sportsman of the Year Award in April 2007. The winner will be chosen by the 43 members of the Laureus World Sports Academy, with the decision made public on April 2, 2007.
  
  
• It’s not that Federer is invincible. He has lost a total of 13 finals in his career.
  
  
• Moreover, it was 2003 that didn’t proved as lucky to Roger. He lost 17 matches to opponents in this year.
  
  
• He made to collect titles from almost 15 countries all over the world.
  
  
• He conquered many matches in 2006 and reached near about 16 finals in the same year.
  
  
• He has already won 20 matches in a row four times. In 2007, he is expected to repeat the history again.
  
  
• He is coached by former ATP pro Peter Lundgren of Sweden.
  
  
• Roger Federer in 2007 won his first ever match on clay against the Spanish Rafael Nadal who on clay has defeated Federer 5 times after his success over him in the French Open Final.
  
  
• By reaching the finals of the 2007 French Open, Roger achieved a record 8th straight Grand Slam final appearance, but although he lost the match with 3 sets to 1 in the French Open Final.
  
  
• His victory in quarter-final at the Monte Carlo Masters, recorded Roger’s victory his 500th career match.
  
  
• Talking about 2007, Roger tied Jimmy Connors' record of being the top ranked male tennis player for 160 consecutive weeks in February. This streak is still going today. See the Federer video page on this site for fascinating highlights.
  
  
• Roger became one of nine men to win at least 3 Australian Open titles entailed with his victory of Australia Final in 2007.
  
  
• Roger became the first man since Bjorn Borg in 1980 to win a major without dropping a set, in the same.
  
  
• The win of Roger on Andy Roddick with a score of 6-46, 6-0, 6-2 convincly stood him equal to Australian Jack Crawford’s 73 old year record, in Australian open.
  
  
• Roger was declared 'European Sportsman of the Year' by the Polish press agency Polska Agencja Prasowa. PAP determined the recipient of the award through an enquiry of 16 fellow European press agencies. Roger netted 145 votes while second placed F1 driver Fernando Alonso received 75 votes.
  
  
• He started playing tennis by the time he was eight.
  
  
• At the age of 18, he won his first Grand Slam Match of his career.
  
  
• By the time he was 19, he was able to record his first ever title of his career.
  
  
• His idols remained Borris Becker and Stefan Edberg in his adolescence. He was a diehard fan of both before Federer Wimbledon was even thought of.
  
  
• Other sports apart of long tennis are soccer and American Pro-wrestling which he is fond of. Rather watching American Pro-wrestling is his first choice to spend his free time with.
  
  
• His hobbies are playing video games and deep sea fishing.
  
  
• In 2003, Roger established his own foundation, the ‘Roger Federer Foundation’ in order to help children in South Africa who were in need of food, shelter and other basic necessities of life. Federer tennis goes beyond the baselines.
  
  
• In 2005, Roger assisted in organizing an exhibition tennis tournament to raise funds for UNICEF after Tsunami in India.
  
  
• On Monday, April 3, 2006, Roger was named a Goodwill Ambassador for UNICEF.
  
  
• Recently, Roger has won 46 career singles titles and 7 career doubles titles. This total has gone up after another remarkable year in 2007.
  

Novak Djokovic

Novak is from Belgrade, Serbia and was born on May 22, 1987. He now lives in Monte Carlo Monaco. He plays right handed and started playing tennis when he was four years old. He turned pro in 2003. Djokovic is currently ranked number 3 in the world and has already won 10 ATP singles titles with four Master Series titles. Djokovic won his first Grand Slam title this past January where he convincingly beat Federer in straight sets in the semi-finals.

With Djokovic coming on strong in the past year, one has to wonder if Roger's consecutive streak of being the number one player will last long.