Sunday, June 7, 2009

Roger Federer Finally Did It

Roger Federer, world No. 2 tennis player from Switzerland finally won the French Open.

He was playing against Robin Soderling, world No. 26 from Sweden. The scoreline was 6-1, 7-6 (7-1) & 6-4. Soderling had earlier on at Round 16 triumphed over world No. 1 Rafael Nadal from Spain.

With the absence of Nadal in the finals, who in the past successive three years denied the Swiss of lifting the cup, Federer did not have any more excuse of being sidelined again.

With his nerves intact, Federer had finally achieved his career Grand Slam joining only five other players
who had done the same thing ie. Don Budge, Fred Perry, Rod Laver, Roy Emerson and Andre Agassi.

With his win, Federer is also tying the record with Pete Sampras of having won 14 career Grand Slam titles. Sampras achieved this feat in twelve years while it took Federer
only half of that time.


Tennis greats of the likes of Andre Agassi, Pete Sampras and Billie Jean King are already crowning Federer as the greatest tennis player in the modern era.


Next I hope Federer will win Wimbledon adding to the five he had already won. He had also won five at the US Open and three at the Aussie Open.

Go go go FedEx!


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