![]() I remember Pete was kind of chasing them, but I was not aware of it. "For me, I don't remember much, when I came up in the '90s, about all these records. This is what set up this generation that we see with Novak and Rafa right now. This whole record thing started, I'd say, with Sampras wanting to surpass the 12 of (Roy) Emerson. In bygone days, he said, "It was not about records. "It's a different world now," Federer said. And," Federer said, "it was less professional back in the '70s."įederer also made this point: He, Nadal, Djokovic and Williams, and the rise of social media, all contributed to a change in the paradigm of Grand Slam importance vis a vis other tournaments and made chasing those records - and talking about chasing those records - more widely accepted and matter-of-course. 1, it's easier nowadays to run through different surfaces. The latter two are still adding to their counts: Nadal, 36, won the Australian Open in January and the French Open in June Djokovic, 35, won Wimbledon in July. Here we are, 20 years later, and Federer wound up with 20 Djokovic has 21 Nadal leads with 22. Indeed, there were those who wondered at the time whether that mark would ever be broken. Open in his last match, he collected his 14th Slam trophy, two more than any other man in the history of tennis to that point. I'd rather do something different,'" Federer said, then added through a self-aware grin: "Complaining at a high level here." I mean, I loved my massages from time to time, but come on number 1,423 gets a little bit like, Jesus. Sometimes I would get tired of them, so I would say, Can we skip a day today?' You know what I mean? I will not miss those. ![]()
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