Mandatory Credit: Peter van den Berg-USA TODAY Sports/Sipa USA London, United Kingdom A tearful Roger Federer (SUI) and Rafael Nadal (ESP) look on after his last Laver Cup Tennis match. The end of the cycle was evident with Federer’s retirement: it was enough that he lost in the Wimbledon 2021 quarterfinals against the Polish Hubert Hurkacz - a number 15 in the world that is not negligible - for the Swiss to decide that, if he could not continue to be the owner of the garden of his house, no other tennis effort would make sense. Anyone who is a fan of this sport will understand what such names mean in history. To give a historical dimension to this due appropriation of the throne of tennis, it is enough to remember that, in order to reach the number that the three of them had of great titles, those achieved by Pete Sampras, Roy Emerson, Rod Laver, Bjorn Borg, Bill Tilden, Ken Rosewall, Ivan Lendl and Jimmy Connors must be put together in the same bag. Since Federer won his first British Open, the three of them have divided 28 of the 29 major tournaments played, only interrupted by Juan Martin del Potro and his 2009 US Open. For nearly 20 years, men’s tennis went through an unprecedented phase.īetween Wimbledon in 2003 and Australia in 2023, Roger Federer, Rafael Nadal and Novak Djokovic shared 64 of 75 Grand Slams.
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