Former world No.1 left his heart in SW19
Roger Federer has admited that winning Wimbledon in 2009 is more important to him than regaining his No.1 world ranking from Rafael Nadal:
“While I would also love to beat Pete Sampras’s Grand Slam record of 14 titles, and also to regain my No. 1 ranking, I place winning another Wimbledon title above all else,” he said.
The way things are going, with several young guns - Andy Murray, Novak Djokovic etc. - snapping at his heels, there’s surely much more chance of Federer winning Wimbledon than getting the top spot back.
The Swiss legend could even slip to No.3 in the ATP rankings in 2009. He’s 1730 ranking points behind Nadal, but only 10 ranking points ahead of Djokovic (the Serb received a healthy boost on the back of his win in the Masters Cup).
All of which makes Rog’s statement about Wimbledon seem like a shrewd example of expectation management.
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3 responses so far ↓
1 Rick // Jun 18, 2009 at 5:50 am
Or the fact that he is becoming more like what Pete was during his final years, win grand slams … cuz honestly, you can’t really keep up that level of tennis at the age (not that Roger is OLD OLD, but from a tennis perspective he is).
Win grand slams at all cost will improve his “overall batting average” so as to speak, so why not?
And Pete’s record will be broken easily; Oh and just to let ya know Nadals on what 8? he’s closing in too … records will always be broken.
2 j.a.j // Jun 22, 2009 at 5:03 pm
hey rick.. nadal’s on 6… he’s got a long way to go… rog’s the best… such a point wud never come up even if nadal wins more grand slams… hope he recovers n gets back to playin good tennis…
3 mike // Jul 5, 2009 at 7:48 pm
rick you must be an old moron who doesn’t know anything about tennis . where the hell did you get 2 more slams for nadal?!! i’m sure nadal never reaches 15 slams anymore maybe 8 or 9 is end of him..
REMEMBER we have a guy who is just phenomenal and you really have to wonder if he’s even from the same planet . HE IS ROGER FEDERER..
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