cork_screw
Hall of Fame
just 50 away from 1000
Federer 950 Career Wins
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What motivates this man? It's crazy.
After winning so much, he still goes on, like he is young. Also, even after he is losing a lot, he still has the motivation.
Most guys lose motivation after losing a lot or when they won so much. Also they want to start enjoying life outside of tennis.
After winning so much, he still goes on, like he is young. Also, even after he is losing a lot, he still has the motivation.
Most guys lose motivation after losing a lot or when they won so much. Also they want to start enjoying life outside of tennis.
smoledman
G.O.A.T.
I suspect that with Fed it's 2 factors:
1. He's a tennis geek, he just loves the game. He loves hanging out in the locker room, cracking jokes with the lower ranked players and so on.
2. He realizes that as soon as he allows himself to mentally drift towards thoughts of "after tennis", he's done. So he won't allow himself that.
NEW_BORN
Hall of Fame
This is what i admire most about him - Federer never gives in to tough losses
He's already owns the record for most matches win overall at the 4 slams.
Grand Slam Match Wins
1 Roger Federer 265
2 Jimmy Connors 233
3 Andre Agassi 224
4 Ivan Lendl 222
5 Pete Sampras 203
6 Stefan Edberg 178
7 Rafael Nadal 177
8 John McEnroe 167
9 Boris Becker 163
10 Novak Djokovic 162
Yeah, it's almost funny. I would love to have his optimism. He can put a positive spin on anything.
He can get triple bageled by some journeyman and still be happy. He would say something like: It's good that I was tested. Now I know where my game is. I just need to play better on bigger points.
And turns negative into positive coming back and owning the next match. It's amazing.
Losing twice to Nole being match points up would destroy most of pros. Fed came back even stronger. I see now why this guy was feared so much.
It was impossible to beat him. But if you did beat him it just motivated him to come back even stronger. You can't win
.Click on the link and you'll see Nadal has the most win at RG:
Nadal - 59
Federer - 58
Vilas - 56
Lendl - 53
Borg - 49
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PrinceMoron
Legend
Vilas was robbed by Nastase, hope Nastase's brain turns into spaghetti.
What do you mean exactly?
furryballs
Banned
the thing is its natural for him...he loves it,its not so much like hard work when you love it.his talent also makes it easier.
NEW_BORN
Hall of Fame
Yep, spot on. I can definitely imagine him saying that.
pc1
G.O.A.T.
Actually Laver won over 1500 and Rosewall won over 1600. I'm fairly certain greats like Tilden and Gonzalez over way over 1000 also.
Still a very impressive feat when Federer reaches 950.
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mike danny
Bionic Poster
Name me another great who had 4 straight years of always losing under 10 matches. That is what is actually crazy.
Even nadal in his best years only once he managed to lose under 10 matches.
Sampras i think never had a season under 10 losses
kishnabe
Talk Tennis Guru
Nastase only robbed him outside of RG...I don't see how it would affect Vilas.
Bjorn Borg is the one you should hate....he denied Vilas probably 3-4 FO.
kishnabe
Talk Tennis Guru
Vilas still won the FO and US Open that year?
Ok, I see that now.
But the topic was how amazing Fed is that even on his worst surface, he is above greatest clay courters in history about how many matches they won at RG.
While they were rested and Fed was tired from dominating the rest of the season.
So, I don't know how Vilas was robbed into having won a lot more matches at RG.
Irvin
Talk Tennis Guru
That's two things we will never see.
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Nathaniel_Near
Guest
Can I make a new thread for when Federer reaches 964 career wins?
pc1
G.O.A.T.
Not sure of course but I would think Tilden in the 1920s would have done that since he won 98% of his matches for about five plus years
And Fed is the only player with at least 50+ wins each at all 4 slams. No player has more than 50 wins on 3 slam events. He has the most complete/balance stats of all for a goat.
forzamilan90
Legend
Awesome, didn't know that. Surely he reaches 1000 wins before it's all said and done
Career match wins leaders:
1. Jimmy Connors 1243
2. Ivan Lendl 1071
3. Roger Federer 950
4. Guillermo Vilas 929
5. John McEnroe 875
6. Andre Agassi 870
7. Stefan Edberg 801
8. Ilie Năstase 779
9. Pete Sampras 762
10. Boris Becker 713
We should also factor in which events that they have won those matches. Federer have won a lot more important matches on bigger events(slams, WTF and Master Series).
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forzamilan90
Legend
I think realistically if Fed keeps on playing at least till the 2016 he can get some sweet records or round up resume even more so potentially...may win Monte Carlo (fingers crossed), Rome (surely I can pray), probably wins Davis Cup this year, gets over 1000 wins, get past 80-90 titles? It's possible.
forzamilan90
Legend
it's an open era only list, we're comparing to modern standards
Those are the top 10 ATP players with most wins.
If we are going to discuss about Federre's wins we should reference it to other players.
Unless you're 5555, he would say that's off topic.
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Nathaniel_Near
Guest
So then state precisely the nature of the list instead of making it out to be some exhaustive list of match win leaders.
It is a list of match win leaders taking into consideration tournies that come under the ATP umbrella and also the ITF. In terms of overall wins, I'm assuming that some of the wins for some of the players in that list have been left out because they were not produced in the ATP specific tournaments.
It is a list of match win leaders taking into consideration tournies that come under the ATP umbrella and also the ITF. In terms of overall wins, I'm assuming that some of the wins for some of the players in that list have been left out because they were not produced in the ATP specific tournaments.
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Nathaniel_Near
Guest
I wonder how 5555 is doing right about now.
Because obviously writers who compiled that list wouldn't include wins from the pre-open era since they are not equivalent. The standard was set when the establishment of the ATP. Any tennis fan would know that list is from the ATP, no need for further explanation.
OTOH, pc1 just list of matches won by Rosewall and Laver, as if they are apple to apple comparison to the ATP players. Totally unfair because not all match won have equal weight.
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Nathaniel_Near
Guest
This response doesn't cover what I said. I suggested that wins from players in the list also may not be complete. That is to say there might be WCT match wins not included from the Open Era.
As such state that it's a list of most career match wins for ATP and ITF events... or whatever.
Also your contradiction is highly irritating. You say now all matches don't have equal weight yet make a list that includes just total ATP/ITF match wins rather than separating the list by Slam victories or Masters victories and such.
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Since no player in the last 25 years or so has played more than 100 matches in a year (Fed max was i think 97 in 2006) and since players in the professional circuit like Rosewal, Gonzalez and Laver played around 150 matches per year, it is debatable if Federer 950 career wins, or whatever he ends up achieving is of more value than the records held by the past greats. Of course in absolute terms Federer is far awy from the numbers of Connors, Laver, Tilden, etc, but in relative terms perhaps his numbers are even more impressive. Really difficult to compare
I could have sworn there was one year where Lendl played over 100...
In 1982 he played around 130 matches i think. That`s why i said in the last 25 years...
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