Singles championships * 1) Federer has won 14 Grand Slam titles, which is the all-time record for a male player (tied with Pete Sampras).[1]
* 2) Federer won five consecutive men's titles at Wimbledon from 2003-07, matching a feat achieved only by Bjorn Borg in the open era.[2]
* 3) Federer holds the open era record for most consecutive US Open titles at five (2004-08).[3] The previous open era record for a male player was three consecutive US Open titles by both Ivan Lendl and John McEnroe.[4] Federer, Sampras, and Jimmy Connors have won a male open era record five US Open titles.
* 4) Federer is the only player in tennis history to win at least five consecutive titles at two different Grand Slam tournaments (2003-07 Wimbledon, 2004-08 US Open).[5] He is also the only player in tennis history to win the same two Grand Slam tournaments back to back for four consecutive years (2004-07).[2]
* 5) Federer's victory at the 2004 US Open marked the first time in the open era that anyone had won his first four Grand Slam finals.[6] He eventually won his first seven Grand Slam finals before losing to Rafael Nadal in the 2006 French Open final.[7] Federer, Richard Sears, and William Renshaw are the only male players in tennis history to win their first seven Grand Slam singles finals.[6]
* 6) At the 2007 Australian Open, Federer became the fourth man in the open era to win a Grand Slam title without dropping a set. The last man to do this before Federer was Borg at the 1980 French Open.[2] Since then only Rafael Nadal accomplished this feat at the 2008 French Open. The only other man to win the Australian Open during the open era without dropping a set was Ken Rosewall in 1971.[8]
* 7) At the 2006 Australian Open, Federer became the first man to win three consecutive Grand Slam titles since Sampras in 1993-94.[2] Federer repeated this feat at the 2007 Australian Open, making him the only man to do this twice in the open era.[9]
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By winning the 2007 Australian Open, Federer became the only male tennis player to win three different Grand Slam tournaments at least three times each (3 Australian Opens, 5 Wimbledons, and 5 US Opens).[10]
* 9) Federer is the only male player in tennis history to win at least two Grand Slam titles for four consecutive years.[2] Sampras is the only other man to win two Grand Slams in a calendar year four different times (1993-95, 1997), but unlike Federer not in consecutive years.
* 10) Federer is the only male player in tennis history to win three Grand Slam tournaments in a calendar year three different times in his career (2004, 2006, 2007).[2]
* 11) Federer won his first 12 Grand Slam finals outside of the French Open, an all-time record. This streak included three titles at the Australian Open, five at Wimbledon, and four at the US Open.[11] His only five losses in Grand Slam singles finals are 3 at the French Open, 1 at Wimbledon and 1 at the Australian Open - all to Nadal. Federer also won his first eight hard court Grand Slam singles finals, an all-time record.
* 12) Only Federer (5 Wimbledons and 5 US Opens), Sampras (7 Wimbledons and 5 US Opens) and Borg (6 French Opens and 5 Wimbledons) have won two different Grand Slam tournaments at least five times. However, only Federer managed to win 5 consecutive grand slam tournaments of two separate events.
* 13) By winning the 2007 Australian Open, Federer won his 6th Grand Slam title in his last 7 attempts, an open era male record. Federer's 7 Grand Slam titles in 9 attempts, 8 in 10 attempts, 9 in 13 attempts, 10 in 14 attempts, 11 in 16 attempts, 12 in 18 attempts, and 13 in 21 attempts are all-time male records.
* 14) Federer is the only male player in tennis history to win 6 Grand Slam titles in two years (2006-07), 8 in three years (2004-06, 2005-07), 11 in four years (2004-07), 12 in five years (2003-07, 2004-08), 13 in six years (2003-08) and 14 in seven years(2003-09). 11 Grand Slam titles in four years is an all-time record, male or female.
* 15) Federer has won at least one Grand Slam title for seven consecutive years (2003-09) trailing only Borg (1974-81) and Sampras (1993-2000) who hold the open era male record of eight consecutive years.
* 16) Federer has defeated eleven different opponents in Grand Slam finals, an all-time male record.
* 17) Federer is the sixth man to win all four Grand Slams after Fred Perry, Don Budge (1938), Rod Laver (1962 & 1969), Roy Emerson and Andre Agassi. Federer is the third man to win all four in open era after Laver and Agassi, and second man to win all four on three different surfaces (Hard, Clay and Grass) after Agassi.
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