Question:On July 16th, 2017, Roger Federer won the Wimbledon Championships for the record ….
(a) 8th time
(b) 7th time
(c) 5th time
(d) 9th time
Ans: (a)
Related facts:
- Wimbledon Championships, 2017, ITF’s third grand slam tennis tournament held from July 3 -16 in the All England Lawn Tennis, Club, London (U.K.).
- Competition Results-
- Men’s singles
Winner-Roger Federer (Switzerland)
Runner up- Marin Cilic (Croatia) - Women’s singles
Winner-Garbine Muguruza (Spain)
Runner up-Venus Williams (United States) - Men’s doubles
Winner-Lukasz Kubot (Poland) and Marcelo Melo (Brazil)
Runners up- Oliver Marach (Austria) and Mate Pakic (Croatia) - Women’s doubles
Winner-Ekaterina Makarova and Elena Vesnina (both Russia)
Runner up-chanhao-ching (Chineseype) and Monica Nikulescu (Romania) - Mixed Doubles
Winner-Jamie Murray (UK) and Martina Hingis (Switzerland)
Runner-up-Henri Kontinen (Finland) and Heather Watson (UK) - Federer did not lose any set in seven matches during the tournament.
- Roger Federer defeated Croatia’s Marin Cilic 6-3, 6-1, 6-4 to win the men’s singles title at Wimbledon
- Federer is the only player who won two Grand Slam consecutive times.
- He won Wimbledon from 2003 to 2007, while from 2004 to 2008; he won the title of the US Open.
- Federer became the oldest player (35 years, 342 days) to win the Wimbledon title in the Open era (beginning in 1968).
- Earlier this record was in the name of America’s Arthur Ash.
- Arthur won the title of 1975 in 31 years, 360 days.
- This is Federer’s record 8th Wimbledon title. (Record 11th Wimbledon Final)
- Federer left behind Pete Sampras and William Renshaw with seven Wimbledon titles.
- This was Federer’s record 29th Grand Slam final, out of which he won 19. (Rafael Nadal 22 Grand Slam Finals)
- These 19 titles includes 8 Wimbledon, 5 US, 5 Australian Open and 1 French Open.
- Overall 3 Top Players (Women / Men) winning the Grand Slam titles are –
1. Margaret Court,Australia-23
2. Serena Williams ,USA-23
3. Steffi Graf Germany-22 - Venus Williams (America) is the second oldest (37 years, 30 days) player after Martina Navratilova, who makes the place in Wimbledon final.
- Navratilova made to the Wimbledon final in 1994, 37 years, 258 days, but she also lost in the final, like Venus.
- Roger became the first living Swiss citizen in 2007, whose name was printed on Swiss Stamp.
- Federer holds the top position in the ATP ranking for 302 weeks.
- Federer has been involved in the top rankings from 2002 to November 2016.
Reference:
http://www.wimbledon.com/en_GB/scores/results/day21.html
http://www.wimbledon.com/en_GB/scores/results/day20.html
http://www.espn.in/tennis/story/_/id/20078356/the-numbers-roger-federer-wimbledon-win
http://www.espn.com/blog/statsinfo/post/_/id/132996/federer-wins-record-8th-wimbledon-title
http://www.espn.in/tennis/story/_/id/20071358/garbine-muguruza-beats-venus-williams-win-wimbledon-title