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Roger Federer’s 10 most memorable victories

Call you Roger Federer does not facilitate any collection task. When your career is so long and lustrous, reducing thousands of moments to a small amount and trying to give arguments to justify it becomes a daunting task. Despite this, in break point we like to review and recover some of the most memorable victories of the swissa compilation of encounters with images included that we have done in our Youtube channel. Obviously, just choose 10 matches it is quite complicated, but the choices are based on different criteria. The results, of course, take us back in time and leave us with unforgettable encounters.

Specifically the criteria used refer to several parameters: the main one, of course, the greatness and iconicity of the meeting and the triumph of the Swiss in question. Therefore, they could not miss games such as the “generational sorpasso” against Pete Sampras, back in 2001 at a Wimbledon that saw the birth of the Swiss legend, just as he could not miss, for example, the victory that signed years and years of effort and that elevated Federer to the Olympus of tennis. We are talking, of course, about his victory against Robin Söderling at Roland Garros 2009, which allowed him to close the Grand Slam with his first victory in Paris and ended the streak of three finals in a row lost in Paris.

But we can not only take that into account, since the Swiss has been part of matches in which scratched perfection. The level of play of the player from Basel is at stake, and for this reason we cannot disdain exhibitions like the one he gave us in the 2004 US Open final against Lleyton Hewitt. Federer reduced the Australian to ashes, endorsing him with two donuts in an exhibition that would propel him to the two most successful years of his career, some 2005 and 2006 where his level of play would reach almost heavenly limits. And in the top-3, of course, is his clay court tennis masterclass against Novak Djokovic: Those 2011 Roland Garros semi-finals in which he snapped Novak’s 40-plus match winning streak remains one of the most impressive matches on his resume.

WHICH ONES DO YOU STAY WITH?

Obviously it is not easy to leave the occasional game out of this list. Bonus tracks come to mind like that 2012 Wimbledon third-round match against Julien Benneteau, a balancing act that ended up allowing him to reconquer the Cathedral and return, later, to the top of the world ranking; some of his exhibitions in 2017, such as his duel against Nick Kyrgios in Miami, it has also been left out of the cut. The problem? There are so many and so good that it is really difficult to make something that pleases everyone. Therefore, we ask you: What meetings do you stay with? Do you agree with our list? We read you in comments.

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