ROGER FEDERER may get to a few more finals before he retires, but he will not add to his record tally of 20 Grand Slam. Both Rafael Nadal and Novak Djokovic will surpass Roger Federer’s tally, claims former British No 1.
That’s the opinion of former British No 1 Greg Rusedski, who believes both Rafael Nadal and Novak Djokovic will surpass Roger Federer’s tally. Federer is still proving doubters wrong at 39 years of age, having come one point away from winning Grand Slam No 21 at Wimbledon last month.
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After his seventh Wimbledon title in 2012, Federer went on a four-year spell without winning a Grand Slam title as both Rafael Nadal and Novak Djokovic took the tour by storm. Questions were soon raised as to whether his career was over, but he returned with a vengeance in 2017, winning the Australian Open and his eighth Wimbledon crown before defending his title in Melbourne a year later.
But Djokovic is now once again playing at the top of his game, winning four of the last five while Nadal is looking close to his best. The two top ranked players head into the US Open as the strong favourites while Federer hasn’t won at Flushing Meadows since 2008. And Rusedski doesn’t think Federer will be able to claim that elusive 21st Grand Slam win. “I’d pick Federer as third,” he said on Amazon Prime.
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“I think it’s going to be 23 for Novak, 21 for Rafa and 20 for Federer. “I think he’ll get to finals and he’s still got a chance to win Wimbledon if something works for him but that’s what I see happening right now.” Ken Rosewall is currently the oldest Grand Slam champion in history, for both men and women, having won the 1972 Australian Open at 37 years, 2 months and 1 day.
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Federer missed a chance to take that record in the agonising Wimbledon final defeat to Djokovic, but if he proves Rusedski wrong then the Swiss tennis star will become the oldest Grand Slam winner in history. And Rusedski believes that would overshadow any of Federer’s any previous Grand Slam wins.
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Federer’s 38 years of age, if he wins another slam – which he had a chance to do at Wimbledon – that would be his greatest accomplishment in my opinion in his career,” he added.
“We were raving when Jimmy Connors at 39 years of age made the semis here and we were thinking ‘wow, that’s out of sight’.
“This man has had the most sensational career.”
