l. to Patrick Rafter, the 3 seed, in his maiden main draw voyage.
99 Wimbledon
l. to Jiri Novak in 5 sets - did Roger have any notion what was to come at the All England Club?
99 US
l. to fellow Swiss Ivo Heuberger in Round 2 of the Qualies.
00 Australian
l. to Arnaud Clement in Roger's first journey past the first round.
00 French
l. to Alex Corretja - that year's 10th seed.
00 Wimbledon
l. to Yevgeny Kafelnikov, the 5 seed that year.
00 US
l. Juan Carlos Ferrero in a 4-setter.
01 Australian
l. to Clement Down Under for the second year in a row
01 French
l. to Corretja for the second year in a row, but this was Roger's first breakthrough into a late-round at a Slam. There'd be a few more on the way.
01 Wimbledon
l. to Tim Henman; though he came up short, he defeated the 7-time Wimbledon champ (and 4 time defending champion) Pete Sampras in a 'passing of the torch' of greatest grass court player ever ... we just wouldn't know it for a couple of years.
01 US
l. to Andre Agassi; he was simply outclassed against the veteran 2-seed in a straight set massacre.
02 Australian
l. to Tommy Haas(7) in a grueling 5-setter; Federer carried the 11 seed into the Aussie
02 French
l. to Hichem Arazi - the Moroccan showman took down an 8th seeded Fed.
02 Wimbledon
l. to Mario Ancic; a crushing loss for a then 7th seeded Roger.
02 US
l. to Max Mirnyi 63,76,64
03 Australian
l. to Nalbandian here in a great 5-setter - would next time be the time he finally breaks through?
03 French
l. to Luis Horna in straight sets; back to back 1R losses at the French for a highly seeded Federer (5).
03 Wimbledon
The first one! He took down 'The Scud' in the final, and only dropped one set in his entire path to victory (to Mardy Fish in the 3R).
03 US
l. David Nalbandian; following up his Wimbledon championship, Fed looked good until giant-killer Nalbandian took him down in 4-sets.
04 Australian
after defeating his then bane, Nalbandian, in the QF, he took out Safin in a straight-set final; already, many experts were saying he could be the GOAT.
04 French
l. to Guga Kuerten; carrying the 1 seed into the French, Roger was no match for the much beloved Brazilian 3-time French champion, who took out Federer with brilliant shot making in a 64,64,64 victory.
04 Wimbledon
in what would be the start of an unbelievable SF or better run at the Grand Slams, Federer took out Andy Roddick in the final.
04 US
The QF match vs Agassi was great drama, and from there Federer dominated his next two matches, including winning two sets over Hewitt in the Final at 6-0.
05 Australian
l. to Safin in one of the most exciting matches in Grand Slam history; Safin would go on to win it.
05 French
l. to Rafa Nadal; after blasting through some great players en route to the SF, Fed could not stop Nadal breaking through to start what would become a 9 out of the next 10 French Open championship run.
05 Wimbledon
Roger was in top form all tournament culminating with a splendid win in a rematch of last year's Final over Roddick.
05 US
in a rematch, of sorts, of their 5-set QF match a year prior, Federer dominated the final set at 6-1 in Agassi's final Grand Slam final.
06 Australian
after a tough 5-setter vs Haas in the 4R, he took out surprise Cypriot Marcos Baghdatis in a 4-set final.
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06 French
l. to Rafa; after blowing through Nadal 6-1 in the first, Rafa turned it on to win his second French title.
06 Wimbledon
Federer was so close to winning Wimbledon without dropping a set until he lost the 3rd set in his 4-set win over Nadal in the Final.
06 US
For the second straight year, Federer would finish off a 4-set final over an American with a 6-1 set (this one was against Andy Roddick).
07 Australian
Roger's 3rd Aussie crown saw him take out all seven opponents in straight sets, including a young Serb who would win one year later; a dominating run ending in a beat-down of Fernando Gonzalez.
07 French
l. to Rafa (again); for the third year in a row, Roger bowed out to a Rafa performance.
07 Wimbledon
The 5th Wimbledon crown in a row! Again, over Nadal, but this one was an epic 5-set nail-biter where a more poised and chance-taking Federer took the final set 6-2
07 US
defeated Djokovic in the Final - there'd be a lot more GS Finals in the future for these two.
08 Australian
l. to Djokovic; after surviving a 10-8 5th set against Janko Tipsarevic, Nole surprised everyone by enacting revenge for his compatriot - he would go on to beat surprise finalist Tsonga in the Aussie championship.
08 French
l. to Rafa (sigh, again); Federer got rolled 61,63,60 in the Final - the French title never looked so far away from Roger's grasp.
08 Wimbledon
l. to Rafa in what is widely known as the greatest match in tennis history; it had everything - the sub-plots are too plentiful to write; in the end, two players at the top of their game on the biggest stage in the sport gave everything they had and the biggest winner was, simply, tennis. 9-7 in the 5th as almost no sunlight remained in the London sky, and if you haven't done so, youtube the 4th set tiebreaker for the most insane amount of drama you'll ever see in sport. Thank you, to both!
08 US
Igor Andreev gave Roger a big scare in the 4R, but by the time the Final rolled around, Roger dominated Andy Murray 62,75,62 to hold his 5th consecutive US Open title.
09 Australian
l. to Nadal; carrying the 2 seed for the first time in years at an Aussie Open, Fed was outplayed by Rafa in the 5-set final (their one and only meeting in a hard-court GS final)
09 French
after Nadal fell in the 4R, Roger took out Rafa's slayer - Robin Soderling - in the final. He now held the Career Slam.
09 Wimbledon
16-14 in the 5th set, though Federer was never really in trouble in this match. He held serve easily throughout the set, though he only broke Roddick once the entire match ... in the final game of the match.
09 US
l. to Juan Martin del Potro; in a shocking upset, del Potro's forehand was unstoppable, and Roger could not get around the great play from the Argentine.
10 Australian
Fed's fourth Aussie title came by beating Hewitt, Davydenko, Tsonga, and then Andy Murray in the final.
10 French
l. to Robin Soderling; for the first time since 2004 Wimbledon, Fed did not make it to the SF of a Slam.
10 Wimbledon
l. to Tomas Berdych; after struggling to beat Alejandro Falla in 5-sets to open his tournament, Federer could not stifle the play of Berdych.
10 US
l. to Djokovic - having two match points serving at 5-3 in the 5th, Djokovic hit a sick return and never looked back, reeling off 4 games to beat a shell-shocked Federer.
11 Australian
l. to Djokovic; what would become the 'Year of Nole' began here with a takedown of Fed in straights.
11 French
l. to Rafa (yup, again); after an incredible 4-set win over a then undefeated for the year (42-0) Djokovic in the SFs, Nadal secured a 4-set win in the Final.
11 Wimbledon
l. Jo-Willie Tsonga after being up 2 sets in their match.
11 US
l. to Djokovic; it was an eerily similar match to last year's SF with the same result in the same final set score, 7-5 Nole.
12 Australian
l. to Nadal in a 4-set fight
12 French
l. to Djokovic; after fighting back from 2 sets down to Del Potro in the QFs, Fed ran out of gas against a game Nole.
12 Wimbledon
Federer played some grueling matches on his way to his championship bout with Andy Murray - when the roof was closed in the 2nd set, Federer played at a higher level and won his 17th Grand Slam title!
12 US
l. to Tomas Berdych
13 Australian
l. to Murray; after emerging from a 5-set battle vs Tsonga in the QF, Murray took down Fed in a 5-setter.
13 French
l. to Tsonga; another Nadal victory in Paris.
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13 Wimbledon
l. Sergei Stakhovsky - both he and Nadal were out by the 2R as Andy Murray became the first Brit in something like 3,000 years to hoist the cup.
13 US
l. to Tommy Robredo; we were one match away from an epic Nadal-Federer QF, but Robredo and his beautiful one-handed backhand had other plans.
14 Australian
l. to Nadal; after taking down Murray in the QFs, Nadal was too tough in the SFs.
14 French
l. to Ernest Gulbis in five sets.
14 Wimbledon
l. to Djokovic; vintage Federer all tourney saw him take out Wawrinka and Raonic then launch an epic comeback that fell just short in the final to Nole.
14 US
l. to Marin Cilic; we were all sure that it would be Djokovic-Federer for the title, but Nishikori and Cilic surprised us all.
15 Australian
l. to Andreas Seppi; a great match by Seppi takes Roger out before the SF round for the first time since '03.
15 French
l. to Stan Wawrinka; a good run was halted by his countryman in a straight set rout - the Stanimal would go on to win in a most impressive final over Nole.
15 Wimbledon
l. to Djokovic for the second Wimbledon final in a row.
15 US
l. to Djokovic; in a no-holds barred type of match under the NYC lights, both men played at their top level with a raucous crowd reeling in delight.
16 Australian
l. to Djokovic; Nole took down Roger once again in a Grand Slam late-round match, but a good comeback from the previous year's early loss.
16 French
Federer did not play, and Nadal withdrew in the 3R - Djokovic would win the French to complete his career slam (3rd of the Big 4 to do so).
16 Wimbledon
l. Raonic; in a 5-setter, Fed bowed out of the tourney, and then had to take the rest of the year off.
16 US
Sadly, Federer was unable to return for the last Slam of 2016 - his country mate, Stan Wawrinka, won the title in yet another amazing shot-making championship.
17 Australian
Against arch rival Rafa, Fed went down 1-3 in the 5th, but fought like a lion to win the final set 6-3! In doing so, he won his 18th Grand Slam; 14 years after his first GS win, at 35 years old, Fed raises his arms in superb victory.
17 French
After an amazing run that saw him win the Australian Open, the Indian Wells Masters, and the Miami Masters, Fed decided to focus on Wimbledon and the US Open hard court season, thus skipping Roland Garros.
17 Wimbledon
Not only did good ole Rog win the whole thing, he didn't drop a set throughout the run, culminating in a drubbing over Cilic in the final.
17 US
Roger never seemed on his game the entire tournament (barely won his first two opening round 5-setters), and Del Potro bested him in a 4th setter.
18 Australian
Fed floated through the draw then took out Cilic in a five-set final; the legend continues!
18 French
A third no-show in a row for Fed
18 Wimbledon
l. to Kevin Anderson who somehow found a way to fight back from a 0-2 set deficit against Roger - an unreal accomplishment at a late-round in Wimbledon: 2-6,6-7,7-5,6-4,13-11
18 US
l. to Millman on a sauna-like night; would have been Novak awaiting in the QF
19 Australian
l. to a focused Tsitsipas in a grueling 4-setter ... Fed anounced he was playing Paris for the first time since 2015 ...
19 French
l. to Nadal. Again. Nadal. Again. Nadal. Again ...
19 Wimbledon
double match point on his own serve vs Novak. Again. Novak. Double match point. On his serve. Again. Novak. This went to a 5th set under the new rules that a tiebreaker would be played at 12-12. Three sets went to tiebreakers, and all three went to Novak. This one stings. Again. Novak.
19 US
l. to Grigor Dimitrov in a 5-setter; yet again, a Nadal-Fed US Open match was not to happen. Will it ever?
20 Australian
l. to Djokovic. One of the more amazing runs in Fed's career to just get to the SFs. Down six match points to Sandgren, he pulled that out; down 4-8 to Millman in the 5th set breaker, he pulled that out 10-8. Roger announced he was skipping the French ... then the life lockdown of COVID-19 came. Roger's last match was against a wall doing the volley challenge.
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Your task is to try and guess the correct choice for what Federer did in a particular Grand Slam tournament. For example, if you think Federer lost in the 3rd Round of the 2005 French (he didn't by the way), write in 3R for that year. Bonne chance!
1R - 1st Round, 2R - 2nd Round, 3R - 3rd Round, 4R - 4th Round, QF - QuarterFinal, SF - Semi-Final, RU - RunnerUp/Finalist, CH - Champion/Winnet, DNP - Did not play, DNQ - Diid not qualify.
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