Roger Federer: The Greatest Of All

Roger Federer won 5 consecutive Wimbledon championships, 5 times US Open, 3 times Australian Open.

He was on the top of ATP lists for 237 consecutive weeks, which is record. He was seen like the best tennis player of all time by many people in this sport.

But one thing was missing... Roland Garros.He never won it, he never even came close to win it. Rafael Nadal was really the master of the clay court.

Once he lost the Wimbledon final last year to Rafael Nadal, people said that it was beginning of an end of a great career.

Wimbledon was "his" tournament as much as Roland Garros Rafa's. But things change. And it all came to an end. Rafa took it. He also replaced him on the top of the ATP list. Federer was already way gone from the spotlight.

He needed only one thing to move on, only one thing would make him even better, if that is possible.

Winning Roland Garros.

Winning French Open at last meant tying record of 14 Grand Slam titles that held Pete Sampras.

It meant that Federer will become only sixth man in history to complete the career Grand Slam.

It meant that dream he chased from 2003. and winning his first major at Wimbledon, has finally came true.

And, even though he was always hailed as "one of the all-time best", nobody actually couldn't make the big difference between Roger and Pete Sampras.

But now...

Roger won 5 times each Wimbledon and US Open, 3 times Australian Open... and once in his career he won Roland Garros. But that ONE French Open means to him more than any other Grand Slam title.

Tears in his eyes when he lifted that trophy showed it all. So many years of dreaming and he finally is on that throne as the winner, not as runner-up.

From the first moment, when he stepped on the court, everyone wanted that win for him. Robin Soderling was good, he has done such a great job, he even defeated Rafa Nadal, but Roger Federer had all the support of the world. And, when he started playing, you could see how much he wanted this win, how ready he was... At last.

Now that he did it, we can finally say that he is the best tennis player ever.

Sampras won 14 titles, but none in Paris. His best was semi final in 1996.

Andre Agassi won all four titles, but managed "only" eight, all together.

Fred Perry, Don Budge, Rod Laver, Roy Emerson too.

Rod Laver won all four titles in the same year, twice; in 1962. and 1969.

But in those times, three of four Grand Slams were played on the grass. It is much difficult to win something like that now days.

Roland Garros was Rafa's tournament as much as Wimbledon Roger's. But both stories came to an end.

So, the point is that people make records and people break them. You never know if "new Federer" will show up one day. But what we do know is that "this Federer" is really the greatest in the history.

And that we are lucky to watch the best player ever playing these days.

Everything I've written earlier is my personal opinion; you can agree or disagree. Many of you, Rafa's fans, aren't going to like this article, but I'm also sure that no one can say that everything I wrote wasn't true.

It is true that you can't listen to the statistics always. Sometimes you need something of your own, a little bit of instincts.

For me, Roger Federer is the greatest of all.

And let's just wait a bit and see if he can win all four majors in one year.

Seems impossible?

He already taught us that Roger Federer is capable of doing impossible...