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There can no longer be any doubt of who is the best tennis player of all time. Roger Federer now has more Grand Slam championships (15) than any other man in tennis history. He won his 15th title by defeating Any Roddick 5-7, 7-6 (8-6), 7-6 (7-5), 3-6, 16-14. The score does not begin to do justice to just how close the match really was.

Entering the matchup Federer was 14-5 all-time in Grand Slam finals, while Roddick was 1-3 with his only victory coming in the 2003 U.S. Open. Two of those loses for Roddick came at the hands of Federer at Wimbledon in 2004 and 2005. Federer is also 18-2 all-time against Roddick, so most people suspected that Federer would have a fairly easy victory in the matchup. (more…)

Now that Serena Williams has won her 11th Grand Slam title by defeating her sister Venus at the 2009 Wimbledon championship match 7-6 (7-3), 6-2, it seems like the right time to discuss who are the best siblings ever in sports. First the Williams sisters.

Serena has those 11 Grand Slam championships and has completed the career Grand Slam by winning all four majors. Venus has won seven major titles, including five at Wimbledon. Serena’s 11 major championships are seventh most all-time behind Billie Jean King (12), Chris Evert (18), Martina Navratilova (18), Helen Wills Moody (19), Steffi Graf (22), and Margaret Smith Court (24). Venus is 29-years-old and Serena is 27, so it is unlikely that either will match Court’s 24 majors, but they together are easily the best siblings ever in professional tennis. (more…)

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Centre Court at Wimbledon is one of those places that young tennis players dream of someday playing. Well it seems that if players want to be scheduled for Centre Court they should be working on their looks instead of their games. A recent report in the London’s Daily Mail reported that the All England Club takes into account how women players look when deciding which court they would play on.

“Good looks are a factor,” All England Club spokesperson Johnny Perkins said. Many have speculated that it is the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) puts pressure on the All England Club to place good-looking players on Centre Court in order to increase the BBC’s ratings−something the BBC has denied. (more…)

After Rafael Nadal learned how to win on all three of tennis’ services it seemed like no one would be able to stop him. After winning three of four Grand Slam championships (reached the semifinals at the US Open) beginning with last year’s French Open (which he won for the fourth straight time) and becoming the No. 1 player in the world on Aug. 18, 2008 it looked like Roger Federer’s time dominating tennis was over. That was until Nadal started to lose consistently to one particular opponent−his own knees. (more…)

Rodger Federer won the 2009 French Open Championship on June 7, and in doing so he made history (watch the video of his win here). Before the victory the French Open was the only Grand Slam Tournament that Federer hadn’t won, and the championship moved Federer’s career Grand Slam total to 14 (three Australian, one French and five of each at Wimbledon and US Open titles). That ties him for the most all-time with Pete Sampras, but what Federer did was even more historic than what Sampras did in his career. Sampras never won the career Grand Slam, so it is hard to argue that Federer isn’t the best player in the history of professional tennis. (more…)